Prof. Jürg Utzinger University of Basel, Switzerland

Jürg Utzinger is the Director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Basel. He holds an MSc in environmental science, a PhD in epidemiology, and pursued several years of postdoctoral research in demography and epidemiology at Princeton University in... read morethe USA. His research, teaching, and training interests pertain to the epidemiology and integrated control of neglected tropical disease and health impact assessment of large footprint projects in low- and middle-income countries. He is engaged in trans-national global health research consortia with ongoing projects in China, Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa and Tanzania.