Public and Global Health Department

The Department of Public and Global Health conducts pioneering research in infectious diseases and organizational health. The Division of Global Health and Mobility focuses on disease control and pathogen surveillance at local, national, and global levels, with specialized expertise in tracking imported pathogens. The Division of Public & Organizational Health advances research to improve workplace health, studying both risk factors and health-promoting elements in professional settings. This division emphasizes intervention and evaluation research to enhance working conditions and offers specialized training in occupational health, linking research insights with practical applications in organizational well-being.

Head of Department: J. Fehr

The Division of Global and Public Health focuses on infectious diseases and travel medicine. As a WHO Collaborating Centre for Travel Medicine, it contributes to global networks like GeoSentinel and TropNet. The division conducts research on emerging infectious diseases, vaccinology, and disease surveillance while offering expertise in outbreak investigations and travel health recommendations. It actively collaborates on international studies addressing global health challenges.

Cohorts and Clinical Trials
Epidemiology of Travel-Related and Local Infections
HIV/STI & Sexual Health
Immunity & Vaccines
Implementation & Behavioural Change in Health
Infectious Disease Control
International Programs & Collaborations
Mobility & Planetary Health
 

Our mission is putting salutogenesis to work. Salutogenesis focuses on the origin of health rather than disease – by strengthening resources and focusing on positive health outcomes.  The internationally unique Center of Salutogenesis aims to advance, disseminate and apply salutogenesis in various fields.
Its embedded research Division of Public & Organizational Health applies salutogenesis to study and to improve the impact of the fast-transforming working life and organizations on employee health.  

Center of Salutogenesis and Division of Public & Organizational Health

Our Division applies a translational approach studying fundamentals of Mycobacterium tuberculosis biology with a focus on the role of metabolism and bioenergetics in host adaptation and antibiotic tolerance. Our goals are to identify vulnerable pathways, translate these findings into drug discovery and determine drug mechanism of action. We use a combination of genetic, metabolomic, transcriptomic, biochemical approaches and disease models to learn how to defeat the global threat of M. tuberculosis. 

Pathogen Biology

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Christine Vögtli (E-Mail)
Thuy Nhung Nguyen (E-Mail)