Akuto Akpedze Konou successfully defends her PhD!
Our heartfelt congratulations go out to Akuto Akpedze Konou! She publicly defended her thesis on 5 September at EPFL. After […]
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Final Stakeholder Workshop in Lomé
In late Spring 2024, the project’s final stakeholder workshop took place in Greater Lomé. From 21 to 23 May, local […]
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Stakeholder Dissemination Workshop in Williamsville (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire)
Participants of the Stakeholder dissemination workshop On Sunday 10 September 2023, a stakeholder workshop took place at Williamsville (Abidjan, Côte […]
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Congratulations to Vitor Pessoa Colombo for Successfully Defending His PhD!
Vitor Pessoa Colombo successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the EPFL campus in Ecublens (Vaud) It is our great pleasure […]
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Successful Concluding Conference in Abidjan Rounds Off Sinergia Project
Participants of the Concluding Conference of the SNSF Sinergia Project in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, September 2023 On 13 and 14 […]
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Stakeholder dissemination workshops, Tanzania 2023
In the course of her research for the Sinergia project and her dissertation on health systems, Doris Osei Afriyie participated […]
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Congratulations to Doris Osei Afriyie for successfully defending her PhD Thesis
Doris Osei Afriyie successfully defended her doctoral thesis at Swiss TPH. We are very happy to announce that Swiss TPH […]
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New publication by our project members on shared sanitation in informal settlements
In a recent issue of Infectious Diseases of Poverty, members of our team and their research partners published an article […]
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Student essays from our second blended-learning course
(c) pexels.com Tanja Hammel taught an interdisciplinary blended-learning course based on our MOOC at the University of Basel in autumn 2022. While […]
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Call for Papers: African Contributions to Global Health
Concluding Conference of the SNSF Sinergia Project Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire (CSRS), Abidjan 12-14 September 2023 […]
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First stakeholder workshop: Nairobi, 14-16 November 2022
The first stakeholder and dissemination workshop forming part of the project ‘African Contributions to Global Health: Circulating Knowledge and Innovations’ […]
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New Afrika-Bulletin No. 188 out now!
We are happy to announce that the essays of the participants of our interdisciplinary MOOC-based course in Spring 2022 are […]
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Last facilitated MOOC-run: 3 October to 4 November!
Don’t miss the last facilitated MOOC-run by experts from the Swiss TPH, EPFL and the Department of History, University of […]
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Exciting new publications by members of our project team!
In the past few months, a number of publications by members of the Sinergia group have been released. They provide […]
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New Publication: Exploring relations between Urban Landscapes and Diarrhoeal Diseases
Our project members Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Jérôme Chenal and Jürg Utzinger have published a new article together with Brama Koné […]
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Student essays from our blended-learning course
Tanja Hammel taught an interdisciplinary blended-learning course based on our MOOC at the University of Basel in spring 2022. 14 […]
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MOOC Examining African Contributions to Global Health on FutureLearn
This interdisciplinary five week course shows how the continent has contributed to Global Health practices. Videos and podcasts take you […]
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WATCH: Third event: Arts and Global Health: Learning from Malawi
How can artists contribute to global health? ArtMalawi’s CleanUp River Mudi Project and Art & Global Health Center Africa are […]
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WATCH: Trailer of our MOOC
Our project members collaborated to create an interdisciplinary Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “African Contributions to Global Health” for […]
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WATCH: Second event: COVID-19: Learning from Africa – or not?
Watch recording here Many countries in Africa have managed the pandemic well, but has the global community acknowledged and been […]
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Interview: Dr Kundai Manamere
Dr Kundai Manamere is a medical historian at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She recently presented her […]
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WATCH: First event: Inequitable urban development: a global health issue
10 December 2020, 16h-17h (CET), via Zoom Description: The first discussion of the series aims to situate urban planning in […]
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Introducing Felix Mwenge
Tanja Hammel: Felix, could you briefly introduce yourself. What is your disciplinary background? My name is Felix Mwenge, I hold a […]
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Upcoming workshop: Photographs as sources for writing histories of medicine, health and healing in colonial and postcolonial Africa
19-20 May 2022, University of Basel Over the last thirty years, photographs have become important sources of information for scholars […]
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Reflections on the Pandemic
By Doris Osei-Afriyie, Household Economics and Health Systems Research, Swiss TPH It has been three months since the majority of […]
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Swiss Researching Africa Days (Bern, 23-24.10.2020) The Swiss Society for African Studies invites paper propositions for the upcoming 6th Swiss Researching […]
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Public Screening of a Documentary on “Mefloquine”
Invitation to Public Screening and Live Discussion November 4, 2020, 6.15pm (CET)Join us for a screening of the documentary “Mefloquine: […]
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International Conference – African Contributions to Global Health
Venue: Hotel Odelya, Missionstrasse 21, CH-4055 Basel The Conference will NOT take place on 19 March. It has been postponed […]
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Swiss Society for African Studies publication
African innovations in the healthcare sector have recently started to attract more attention. In Sierra Leone, for instance, the state […]
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First publication
We are happy to announce that Jakob Zinsstag, Julia Tischler and Tanja Hammel co-published a first article with some colleagues in the Journal for Public Health and Emergency before the project officially started.
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Sinergia Project: African contributions to global health – Circulating knowledge and innovations
Our internal kick-off workshop took place on the 12th November and we attracted interest from the Graduate Centre, University of Basel who wrote a short article about our workshop: Read more
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