Next PhD Thesis Defense

IZA CIGLENECKI

"Integrating acute HIV care into comprehensive HIV control strategies within public health sector"

December 9 2025, 2:30 pm (Geneva time)

CMU room B04.2222 or online : https://unige.zoom.us/j/65048895609

DEVY EMPERADOR

"UTILITY OF ANTIGEN-BASED RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TESTS FOR EBOLA DISEASE OUTBREAKS"

December 15 2025, 2 pm (Geneva time)

CMU room A04.2711 or online : https://unige.zoom.us/j/64237465970

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"
Mr. Amobi Onovo: "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 ».

June, 2023

Ms. Sugitha Sureskhumar. "Assessing the Quality of Non-Communicable Disease Care in Kenya and Malaysia: An Evaluation of Perceptions of Health Care Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic".
Mr. Philippe Lepère. "Achieving HIV treatment targets in the era of digital health: the promises and challenges of mHealth"

July, 2023

Ms. Krystel Ouaijan. « Prevalence of Malnutrition in Lebanese Hospitals, Recognition and Impact on Right to Health »

September, 2023

Ms. Rachel Esra. “Machine learning to inform targeted strategies for HIV testing and treatment retention in South Africa”
Mr. Hiroki Saito. “Promotion of hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC) in Japan through implementation of the WHO guideline on core components of IPC programmes”.
Ms Awa Babington-Ashaye, "Tackling disease education gaps of People with Haemophilia and obligate carriers in Sub-Saharan Africa through the design and implementation of an original Artificial Intelligence (AI) conversational agent"
Ms. Elvira Muratalieva, “Global guidelines to prevent and manage non-communicable diseases and their influence to strengthen the primary health care system in Kyrgyzstan”.

December, 2023

Olga de Santis : "Les infections asymptomatiques dans la transmission de la dengue, mythe ou réalité ? Une étude épidémiologique à la Réunion"
Erol Orel : "Enhancing HIV Prediction through Machine Learning and Streamlining Research with LiteRev"

2024 PhD Thesis Defense

February 2024,

Gianna Gayle Herrera Amul : "Alcohol and Tobacco Control in the Philippines and Singapore: A Review of Policies and an Analysis of the Power of the Alcohol and Tobacco Industries in the Policy Process"

September 2024,

Gabriel Alcoba Wright : "Snakebite epidemiology among rural communities in Nepal and Cameroon: Random multicluster surveys with one health approach"

October 2024,

Hugo Santa Ramirez : "Social and urban determinants of nutrition: Experiences of food insecurity, unhealth diets and malnutrition from two cities across the globe"

November 2024,

Gaud Catho: "Improvement of antibiotic use in hospitals through multifaceted, computerized interventions"
Jessica Zafra Tanaka: "Using a co-creation approach to develop a Core Outcome Set for
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitu"

2025, PhD Defenses

January

Nasteha Salah: The influence of migration and cultural adaptation on changing attitudes and behaviours towards female genital mutilation/cutting: risk assessment of FGM/C among Eritrean and Somali communities residing in Geneva
Benedetta Armocida: Public health responses to the burden of ncds among adolescents in europe: insights, strenghts, and limitations of the global burden of disease

April

Nicolas Sperisen: Understanding and addressing the needs of long-term cancer survivors: creating practical materials for survivors and healthcare professionals.

May

Mory Keita: Investigating innovative approaches and strategies for effective ebola epidemic control: case studies from guinea and the democratic republic of the congo
German Galileo Guerra y Guerra: Depressive symptomatology among paid domestic workers in Mexico
Tigest Tamrat : "Understanding and Addressing Acceptability and feasibility of digitally enabled self-monitoring of blood pressure for the management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a qualitative analysis of pregnant women’s and health workers’ perspectives from Lombok, Indonesia"

July

Michiko Kyokan: " Development of pragmatic recommendations for optimising neonatal thermal car in low resource settings"