For healthcare professionals

Drawing on our many years of experience in diagnosing and treating tropical and travel-related diseases, and our extensive national and international network of specialists, we provide expert consultancy services to doctors and healthcare professionals. Collaborating closely with hospitals and general practitioners across Switzerland is an integral part of our work.
 

For referrals, please contact us by phone at +41 61 284 82 55 or by email at tropmed@swisstph.ch.

For referrals for evaluation and completion of vaccination status (± for tropical medicine screening) prior to long-term immunosuppression, please use this referral form.
 

For tropical and travel medicine enquiries, our experts are available on our paid advice line:

☎ 0900 57 66 67 (CHF 3.89/min., Swiss landline) 

• Monday and Tuesday: 14:00–16:00
• Wednesday and Friday: 15:00–17:00
• Thursday: 08:00–10:00
   

For detailed enquiries about differential diagnosis, diagnostics and therapy of tropical medical and parasitic diseases, please send us this form.

Consultations are billed to the patient, depending on the extent of the consultation. Costs are calculated according to the standard medical time-based tariff TARDOC.

This service is intended for hospitals and registered doctors only. We are unable to respond to enquiries from private individuals.

Tropical medicine emergencies (for healthcare professionals only):

+41 61 284 81 44, available around the clock. 
This number is reserved exclusively for hospitals and registered doctors.
 

To order antiparasitic medicines that cannot be obtained through pharmacies in Switzerland, please send us this drug order form. 

If received by 11:00 from Monday to Friday, your order will be dispatched the same day by A-Post. Express orders for emergencies are available by request by telephone: +41 61 284 82 55 (Monday–Friday, 08:00–12:00 and 13:30–16:30).
 

Together with the Diagnostic Centre of Swiss TPH, we serve as the National Reference Centre for Malaria. 

• General enquiries: +41 61 284 82 56 or labor@swisstph.ch
  Monday to Friday, 09:00–12:00 and 13:00–17:00
• Emergency malaria investigations: +41 61 284 82 61
  Monday to Friday, 08:00–17:00
   

We regularly offer courses and continuing education events on travel medicine topics, inlcuding Traveller's Health or Reisemedizin Update. These courses can be credited as part of the FMH training. 

A full overview of our offering is available on the website of our clinical short courses. 

For upcoming symposia, public seminars, and other events, please visit our Events page.