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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
The Division of Public & Organizational Health studies positive health development in modern workplaces. Research focuses on psychosocial working conditions, health-oriented leadership, team climate, job crafting, and work-life boundaries, using models like job demands-resources and salutogenesis. The division also develops and evaluates tools, such as the corporate health index, to improve job resources and health through evidence-based interventions and broad organizational studies. The internationally unique Center of Salutogenesis advances the theory and broader applications of Salutogenesis. It runs the Global Society of Theory and Research on Salutogenesis.
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.
