Jürg Utzinger, MSc, Ph.D.
 

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Epidemiology

Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit

Department of Public Health and Epidemiology

Swiss Tropical Institute

Basel, Switzerland

      Dr. Utzinger obtained his MSc degree in Environmental Sciences, Zurich and his PhD degree in Epidemiology from the University of Basel. After completing his postdoctoral research at Princeton University in the United States, Dr. Utzinger returned to the Swiss Tropical Institute where he currently heads the Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit within the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology.

     His research, teaching and training pertains to the epidemiology and control of the so-called neglected tropical diseases, with an emphasis on schistosomiasis, food-borne trematodiases and soil-transmitted helminthiases. His research involves metabolic profiling in host-parasite models in the laboratory and community-based intervention studies in the humid tropics. Dr. Utzinger has published over 200 articles in the peer-reviewed literature. He is deputy editor of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and Geospatial Health, and serves on the editorial board of Acta Tropica and Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy.