Research Focus

Immunology & Infectious Diseases

Area of Research

Vaccine preventable infectious diseases, especially in children and adolescents: epidemiology, disease burden and prevention. Vaccine safety and side effects

• A randomised controlled trial of adjunct corticosteroid therapy in hospitalised children with community acquired pneumonia (CAP): KIDS-STEP STUDY
• Hospital based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 cases in Switzerland
• Long-term outcomes of osteoarticular infections in children
• What Matters to Parents Regarding Immunization of Their Children: Systematic Analysis of Expert Advice to Parents in an Internet Forum.
• Child-parent immunization survey: How well are national immunization recommendations accepted by the target groups?
• Attitudes of Swiss Health Care Providers Towards Childhood Immunizations

National Collaborations

• Paediatric Infectious Disease Group Switzerland
• Swiss Paediatric Surveillance Unit
• SwissPedNet

International Collaborations

• European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases
• Brighton Collaboration

• Hospital-based surveillance of Covid 19 and Influenza (University of Geneva and Swiss Public Health Office)
  Ongoing since March 2020; Coordinator for paediatric module
   
• Surveillance of varicella-zoster-virus infections, Swiss Paediatric Surveillance Unit, SPSU (in collaboration with Swiss Public Health Office)
  Ongoing since July 2021; Co-prinicipal investigator
   
• KIDS STEP Study - A randomised placebo-controlled multi-centre effectiveness trial of adjunct betamethasone therapy in hospitalised children with community acquired pneumonia (SNF)
  Ongoing since July 2016; local Principal Investigator Basel