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2018, PhD Thesis Defense

September, 2018

Aristide Gnassingbe: "Problématique de la lutte contre les faux médicaments au togo: état des lieux de l'action publique et élaboration de stratégies alternatives"

2019, PhD Thesis Defense

May, 2019

Martin Schneider: PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Global Health Track: "Soins palliatifs et assistance humanitaire d’urgence Projets spécifiques des organisations humanitaires et vécu des expatriés y engagés"

June, 2019

Dalia Samhouri: International health regulation (2005). Analysis of the implementation : how can compliance be improved?  A field-based, mixed method analysis

2020, PhD Thesis Defense

January, 2020

Caroline Perrin: "From proxy-indicators to connecting disparate evidence: a multilevel-toolkit for evaluating the impact of digital health implementations on health outcomes".

February, 2020

Jean-Marc Biquet: "Patient safety in Medical Humanitarian action. Medical error prevention and management".

Emilien Jeannot: "HPV vaccination in Switzerland: knowledge, attitude and effectiveness".

Melissa Harper Shehadeh: "Le développement et l'adaptation culturelle d'une intervention psychologique en ligne pour la dépression".

March, 2020

Chin-Shui Chih: "E-cigarettes: users’ profiles, stakeholders and public attitudes to regulations in Taiwan"

June, 2020

Dzmitry Krupchanka: "Mortality gap associated with mental disorders in the Czech republic".

September, 2020

Jiancong Wang: "Epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections and implementation of infection prevention and control in acute care hospitals in Mainland China".

October, 2020

Yew Fong Lee:"Innovative social and behavioural change strategies to strengthen and improve infection prevention and control – A World Health Organization first Global Patient Safety Challenge.« Clean Care is Safer Care » project".

Ermira Tartari: "Healthcare-associated infections: implementation of global initiatives to improve infection prevention and control".

Cleophas Chimbetete: "HIV drug resistance and third line treatment outcomes in patients failing Protease Inhibitor based second-line antiretroviral therapy in Zimbabwe".

2021, PhD Thesis Defense

February, 2021

Ms. Kanika Koirala: “Epidemiology of persistent febrile illnesses in Eastern Nepal”.

April, 2021

Ms. Sara Tomczyk: “Improving the Quality of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Evidence: An Assessment of Interventions to Improve Practices and Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections” (HAIs).

June, 2021

Mr. Christophe Gaudet Blavignac: “Semantic interoperability of clinical data: a multi-dimensional approach”.

Mr. Lassané Kabore: “Impact assessment of childhood immunization programs in limited-resource settings: challenges in ascertaining vaccination status and application to Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Burkina Faso”.

September, 2021

Mr. David-Zacharie Issom:"Empowering Individuals with Sickle cell disease Through Crowdsensing: A Patient-led Approach."

November, 2021

Dr. Joseph Muiruri Mwangi Kibachio: « Reframing non-communicable diseases and injuries for equity in limited ressourse settings in the context of universal health coverage in Kenya »

December, 2021

Mr. Joshua Galjour: "Chronic political instability and the HIV/AIDS response in Guinea Bissau from 2000 to 2015: The intersections of politics and epidemiology"

2022, PhD Thesis Defense

June, 2022

Mr. Debashish Das: "Assessment of tools to improve microscopy for the detection of Plasmodium infections in research contexts"

Ms. Fleur Hierink: "The Winding Road to Health: geographic accessibility modelling to support health system optimization and disease estimates in low- and middle income countries"

Ms. Sandrine Von Grünigen: "Handling of cytotoxic drugs and related waste in low and middle-income countries: A toolkit to promote safe handling practices"

Mr. Carlos R. Ochoa: "Snakebite: innovative geospatial approaches to epidemiology, risk, vulnerability, and healthcare accessibility, for burden reduction in the Terai region of Nepal".

July, 2022

Ms. Alexandra Peters : "Assessment of the role of healthcare environmental hygiene in patient safety and development of a facility-level self- assessment tool"

Mr. Benido Impouma: « Analysing the Integrated Diseases Surveillance and Response (IDSR) performance and factors associated with COVID-19 incidence and mortality to strengthen public health security in the WHO African region »

September, 2022

Mr. David Chipanta: "Impact of Social Protection Programmes on Access and Use of HIV Services: A Quasi-Experiment Study in Four Rural Districts of Zambia"

December, 2022

Ms. Maria Lazo-Porras: "Applied methods to promote sustainability and scalability of complex interventions"

2023 PhD Thesis Defense

February, 2023

Ms. Maryam Sadeghimehr "Comprehensive Disease Models and Cost-effectiveness Studies of Hepatitis C Virus"

March, 2023

Mr. Jonathan Polonsky. « Outbreak analytics to inform real-time public health surveillance and response in humanitarian settings ».

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