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Jan Fehr, last March, the UZH Travel Clinic was repurposed as a coronavirus testing center. On 4 January, it took up operations as the first reference vaccination center for the canton of Zurich. Who can get vaccinated at the center?

Jan Fehr: People at higher risk from COVID-19. These include people aged 75 or older, or people who have serious pre-existing health conditions regardless of their age. People who meet these criteria can make an appointment and get vaccinated at our center at Hirschengraben in Zurich. Appointments can be made online at https://coronazentrum.uzh.ch or through the canton’s medical hotline 0800 336 655 . If you have a serious pre-existing condition, you need to be referred to the center by your doctor.

The UniversityHospital Zurich will also begin vaccinating patients in early January, and nursing homes and GPs will follow suit shortly thereafter.

Why the priority list?

We initially expect to have 36,000 vaccine doses available. This means we need to decide which groups get the vaccination first. The canton of Zurich is following the recommendations of the Federal Commission for Vaccination and the Federal Office of Public Health’s vaccination strategy. In the first phase, the goal is to prevent severe cases and deaths and reduce the burden on the healthcare system.

That’s why the first target priority group is people aged 75 or older, with or without pre-existing conditions. In addition, adults with chronic medical conditions are also at a higher risk of suffering severe COVID-19 symptoms and may also get vaccinated first, regardless of their age. This includes people with special and serious forms of cardiovascular, respiratory and kidney diseases, obesity, weakened immune systems, high blood pressure or diabetes. The second jab is given at our center four weeks after the first.

When did the vaccine arrive?

The vaccine arrived with a police escort early last week. We’re using the vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech, which needs to be stored in deep freezers at -80° to -70° C.

The vaccine race has turned deep freezers into a hot commodity. Do you have enough freezers?

Yes, we planned ahead. You also need to take into account that for every deep freezer that’s in use, you need to have a back-up freezer in case it breaks down.

How prepared were you for being the canton’s reference vaccination center?

Of course we would have liked to have had more rest before starting, rather than 10 months’ of combating the pandemic. But then you also have to admit that we’re incredibly lucky that the new Travel Clinic took up operations just in time, right before the first wave. We were able to use its new infrastructure and build on the long-standing vaccination expertise of the largest travel clinic in Switzerland.

The flexible setting provided by the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI) also helps. I’m also very fortunate to have such a great team supporting me. The COVID-19 vaccination project is led by Dr. Matthias Reinacher, who is highly knowledgeable in the fields of medicine, IT as well as management. The devil’s in the detail, however, and at first it all seemed to be too much, but I always remember a quote by Nelson Mandela, who said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done”.

Were you able to find enough staff for the vaccination line at such short notice?

My team, the UZH task force and the UZH Human Resources office all went above and beyond to support our center. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank them very much for this. We now have a total of 73 employees helping us with the vaccinations and recording data in the vaccination card. Emergency medical staff are on hand in case anyone suffers an allergic reaction, and the relevant contingency planning and training are also in place.

The vaccination center is a so-called reference laboratory. What exactly does this mean?

We’re the first vaccination center in the canton of Zurich and gathering information on all levels, from logistics and handling the vaccine to training staff, IT processes as well as vaccine acceptance in the population.

This experience will be used to tweak the processes, and it will also be made available to other vaccination centers in the canton. We’re also constantly gathering information on all new vaccines that are approved, which results in a steady stream of insights.

Which vaccines are these?

We’re first using Cominarty from Pfizer/BioNTech, which has to be stored at ultra-low temperatures of -80° to -70° C. Swissmedic is currently also reviewing approval for further vaccines, for example the mRNA vaccine from Moderna. This one also needs to be stored in freezing temperatures of around -20° C. And there’s also the AstraZeneca vaccine, which can be stored in regular fridges.

Are you also involved in research around the vaccination process?

The large-scale Corona Immunitas study , run by UZH and the Swiss School of Public Health, aims to gather reliable data on the rate of infection in Switzerland and shed more light on immunity against SARS-CoV-2. Milo Puhan, who heads up the EBPI, is coordinating and leading the national study, and together we’re trying to move this large-scale project forward. Many of the study’s visits are held in the UZH’s corona center – that is, the new Travel Clinic. Expanding on the Corona Immunitas study, we’ll then also turn our focus to questions surrounding vaccination and immune response. Our center provides the ideal platform for this.

How do you view the danger presented by the new coronavirus mutations spreading across Switzerland?

As things stand, it doesn’t look like the available vaccines will be any less effective for the new mutations that recently surfaced. But it’s important that we now quickly get a grip on the pandemic – and this of course means carrying out vaccinations and strictly following the relevant safety measures. We can only control the pandemic if we’re one step ahead of the virus, and unfortunately this has not yet been the case. 

As the head of the Public and Global Health Department at UZH, how do you view the pandemic from an international point of view?

I’m currently seeing an increase in national self-interests, where people’s ideas and actions aren’t extending beyond their own country’s borders. But the pandemic is global. We must show solidarity, work hand in hand, and include other countries, especially the poorer ones, in our plans, as coronavirus is a global rather than a local issue.

Marita Fuchs, Editor UZH News

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The quantified self during travel: mapping health in a prospective cohort of travellers

Affiliations.

• 1 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute.
• 2 Travel Clinic, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland.
• 3 Department of Mathematics.
• 4 Department of Computational Science, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
• 5 Wearable Computing Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
• 6 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, 4051 Basel, Switzerland.
• 7 University of Basel, 4003 Basel, Switzerland.
• PMID: 28931147
• DOI: 10.1093/jtm/tax050

Background: Travel medicine research has remained relatively unchanged in the face of rapid expansion of international travel and is unlikely to meet health challenges beyond infectious diseases. Our aim was to identify the range of health outcomes during travel using real-time monitoring and daily reporting of health behaviours and outcomes and identify traveller subgroups who may benefit from more targeted advice before and during travel.

Methods: We recruited a prospective cohort of travellers ≥ 18 years and planning travel to Thailand for <5 weeks from the travel clinics in Zurich and Basel (Switzerland). Participants answered demographic, clinical and risk behaviour questionnaires pre-travel and a daily health questionnaire each day during travel using a smartphone application. Environmental and location data were collected passively by GPS. Classification trees were used to identify predictors of health behaviour and outcomes during travel.

Results: Non-infectious disease events were relatively common, with 22.7% (17 out of 75 travellers) experiencing an accident, 40.0% ( n = 30) a wound or cut and 14.7% ( n = 11) a bite or lick from an animal. Mental health associated events were widely reported, with 80.0% ( n = 60) reporting lethargy, 34.7% ( n = 26) anxiety and 34.7% ( n = 26) feeling tense or irritable. Classification trees identified age, trip length, previous travel experience and having experienced a sports injury in the past year as the most important discriminatory variables for health threats.

Conclusions: Our study offers a revolutionary look at an almost real-time timeline of health events and behaviours during travel using mHealth technology. Non-infectious disease related health issues were common in this cohort, despite being largely unaddressed in traditional travel medicine research and suggest a substantial potential for improving evidence-based travel medicine advice.

Keywords: epidemiology; health behaviour; mHealth; travel medicine.

© International Society of Travel Medicine, 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]

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Kristina Eiviler joined the URPP Language and Space in April 2019.

Interactions, Objects, Spaces: Interdisciplinary approach to vernacular practices in public places

In my research, I apply EMCA methodology on the ethnographical data, to analyze the cross-cultural phenomenon of interaction between people and publicly venerated objects, along with the spacial modifications that emerge as a result of these interactions. The commonly seen form of the indicated phenomenon is: people touching specific parts of the statues, or stones, for luck. Nonetheless, this phenomenon can attain significantly complex expressions, such as accomplishing more engaging physical contact with the object (sitting, standing, lying, bowing to the object, etc), incorporating other objects to the venerated object (food, flowers, coins, notes, etc), constructing new discourses about the place or institutionalizing it (making it a public facility, organizing touristic venues, etc). Given that these objects are a part of the public landscape and that the interactions occur in mundane settings, the human-object, human-human and the spatial dimensions of the interactions are strongly entangled. Therefore, I examine the embodied forms of the behavior and the semiotic resources of the space which are being activated through these encounters and which might differentiate ritual(ized) from everyday actions. My focus in on naturally-occurring interactions, namely object-cantered sequences and sequences of distinctive spatial practices. I analyze how participants moderate their trajectories, postures, gestures, how they interact with the object and through the object, how the dynamics of these interactions re-shapes spacial dimensions. In order to answer the research questions, I include disciplines such as linguistic anthropology, material culture studies, sensory anthropology, popular culture studies, urban studies. The data I am currently working on consists of video recordings, audio recordings, photographs, texts and interviews. The significant part was collected in Russia, in the Moscow Metro station “Revolutionary square” with the 76 human-size bronze statues; in the Moscow park Kolomenskoe, with the Gus stone – male stone and the Deviy stone – female stone, and in Pereslavl-Zalessky (Yaroslavl Region), which, thought the years, became a pilgrimage hot-spot due to the Synyi stone, located there.

Supervisor:  PD Dr. Klaus Wolfgang Kesselheim

Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Tschofen

Funding Source: URPP Language and Space

• Multimodal interaction analysis
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• AI, robotics, religion, and spirituality
• Linguistic anthropology
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Best Student Paper Award: Eiviler, K. (2023). " The Silence  in the crowd: How visitors of venerated places display and make the self-focused state of non-talk accountable to the others"  International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA) , Brisbane, Australia. Best Student Paper Award.

Winner of the 4th Global Science Film Festival, category: Scientists-as-Filmmakers. “Who is (not) Swiss?” (2020, 4`4``, language Swiss German). Team: Kristina Eiviler (UZH), Petra Sidler (FHNW & NCCR – on the move) and Monika Molnar (UZH).

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“SPEAK UP! Session on Decolonizing, decapitalizing, and decompartmentalizing Academia” (2021). Samira Ibnelkaid (PostDoc at the University of Oulu, Finland) and Kristina Eiviler (role: organizer, presenter, and moderator), University of Zurich, Switzerland.

“Video-based research” (2021). University of Oulu, Finland (online).

"Open Access and Audiovisual Sources" (2019), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Basic R, Adobe Premier Pro CC, FinalCut, MAXQDA, EXMARaLDA, ELAN

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• Representative of Postdocs and Doctoral Students at the Steering Committee of the URPP Language and Space (Jan 2021-Jan 2022).
• Member of the CORE-ILCA
• Member of the Lecturers Without Borders
• Member of the Zurich English-Speaking Theater

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Serbian (native); English, Russian (fluent); Spanish, Slovenian, German (intermediate); Polish, French, Finnish, Turkish (elementary).

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• Head of Department Public and Global Health

Short Biography

Jan Fehr, is Professor of 'Global Health & Mobility', Head of the Department of Public & Global Health at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI) of the University of Zurich (UZH) and one of the three members of the Executive Board of the EBPI at UZH as well as Chief Physician of the Centre for Travel Medicine (ZRM) at UZH. This is the world's only WHO Collaboration Centre for Traveller's Health and the largest travel clinic in Switzerland, with almost 30,000 consultations every year. It also includes the Canton of Zurich's reference vaccination centre, which was established during the coronavirus pandemic. He is a specialist in internal medicine and infectious diseases with many years of experience in clinical research to tackle global health changes in close collaboration with partners in the Global South. His research interests include HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, vaccinology and newly emerging infectious diseases. He is a One Health delegate of UZH for the UNA Europe Alliance, a member of the Confederate Commission for questions of vaccinations (EKIF) and a strategic member of the Swiss Expert Committee on Travel Medicine (EKRM) and member of the working group “Clinical Therapy” of the Federal Commission for Issues relating to Sexually Transmitted Infections (FCSTI) and member of the “Swiss Chagas Network”.

Curriculum Vitae

CV Jan Fehr (PDF, 117 KB)

Publications list

Jan Fehr in PubMed

Ongoing Projects

• A multicenter, observational cohort to study the characteristics of individuals asking for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and the incidence of HIV and STIs: «The Swiss PrEPared Study»
• Real Risks of the Online World: Association of Online Dating Addiction with Mental and Sexual Health Outcomes in Sexual Minorities
• Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and development of immunity in the Swiss population – Population-based observational studies to inform policy making (CORONA IMMUNITAS)
• Zurich SARS-CoV-2 Cohort: Towards a long-term control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission – Identifying the epidemiological, immunological and viral genetic drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and pathogenesis in a representative population-based cohort

Closed Projects

• SIS- Swiss Immune Setpoint Study
• Novel integrated infectious diseases diagnosis and surveillance system (NIIDS)