Eva Herzog, Member of the Swiss Council of States discussing with Jürg Utzinger, Director of Swiss TPH, Sebastien Gagneux, Head of the Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology and Christian Auer, Public Health Specialist (from left to right). Photo: Joachim Pelikan / Swiss TPH
Eva Herzog, Member of the Swiss Council of States discussing with Jürg Utzinger, Director of Swiss TPH, Sebastien Gagneux, Head of the Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology and Christian Auer, Public Health Specialist ( from left to right ). Photo: Joachim Pelikan / Swiss TPH More than 10 million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB) every year. The disease remains one of the world's biggest killers with 1.6 million annual deaths. In recent years, efforts and funding to fight TB have been overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) is currently holding a 2-day symposium in Allschwil, Switzerland in order to share the latest findings in TB research, raise public awareness and drive policy change. Scientists, experts and decision-makers are discussing findings and ideas to spark the global efforts to eliminate TB as a public health problem by 2030. In 2021, an estimated 1.6 million people died of tuberculosis (TB), making it the world's second deadliest infectious killer, right after COVID-19.
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