Marcel Tanner

Marcel Tanner is Director of the Swiss Tropical Institute, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Basel and Dean of the Faculty of Science. His research ranges from the immunology of malaria, schistosomiasis, trypanosomiasis and filariasis to epidemiological and public health research on risk assessment, vulnerability, health impact and district health planning. Dr. Tanner has worked in rural and urban areas in Africa (mainly Tanzania, Chad, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire) and Asia (China, Thailand, Laos). He coordinated the first African malaria vaccine trial in 1992 and participated recently in several major intervention trials on malaria (iron supplementation, intermittent treatment) and schistosomiasis (prophylactic effect of artemether). Marcel Tanner obtained a PhD on medical biology from the University of Basel and a MPH from the University of London.