2026 - Organization of Congresses, listed by Name
AFRAVIH conference 2026: Member of the scientific organising committee for the largest francophone HIV
2025 - International Scientific Conferences, listed by Name
Key note at the European Cohort Coordination Board meeting in Rome, Italy: "Avoiding design-related biases in observational cohort analyses: The target trial emulation framework"
2025 - National Awards,with/without money received
Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases Award (2nd prize in Category “Clinical Research”): For the JAK inhibitor IPDMA in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine in May 2025; CHF 5,000
2025 - National Awards,with/without money received
Swiss National Science Foundation Scientific Image Competition (1st prize in category “Object of Study”) for the picture/documentation of the Hair Salon Lesotho project; CHF 1000
2025 - International Scientific Conferences, listed by Name
Key note at the EU-RESPONSE consortium meeting in Verona, Italy: "Leveraging UK Electronic Health Records for Pandemic Preparedness"
2025 - Participation or Organization of Collaborations on an international level
PROACT EU-RESPONSE (https://proact-response.eu). Adaptive platform trial to assess various compounds against several respiratory viruses and prepare Europe for a next respiratory virus pandemic
2024 - International Scientific Conferences, listed by Name
Talk at the Research Seminar in Evidence-based psychiatry, Center for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, Region Zealand, Denmark: "Adaptive Platform Trials and Trials within Cohorts (TwiCs)"
2024 - International Scientific Conferences, listed by Name
Key note at the Joint Annual Meeting SSI | SSM | SSHH in Bern, Switzerland: "Cohort Studies 2.0: Nesting Pragmatic Randomized Trials into Cohorts using the TwiCs Design"
2024 - International Scientific Conferences, listed by Name
Talk at the “Europe united against old and new pandemics” symposium, organized by the Belgium presidency of the European Commission 2024: "EU & MPX RESPONSE: Examples of pan-European clinical platform trial networks"
2023 - Associate Editor Reviewer, listed by Journal Name
Associate Editor BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies
2023 - International Scientific Conferences, listed by Name
2023 TwiCs Symposium: Talk at & Organizing Committee Member
2023 - Television Appearances and Interviews
CHUV/MSD Podcast series on HIV research: David Jackson-Perry discussed with Alain Amstutz about HIV in Lesotho, his research projects and lessons learnt also for Switzerland (in French)
2023 - National Awards,with/without money received
Clinical Research Day University of Basel Award (1st prize for best oral presentation, CHF 1000)
2022 - Participation or Organization of Collaborations on an international level
MPX-RESPONSE (https://mpx-response.eu/consortium/). Adaptive platform trial that assessed tecovirimat for the treatment of Mpox across Switzerland, France, Brasil, and Argentina. And MOSAIC cohort participants with Mpox across >10 countries
2022 - Participation or Organization of Collaborations on an international level
EU-RESPONSE (https://eu-response.eu). Adaptive platform trial that assessed 4 COVID-19 therapeutic compounds (antivirals and monoclonals) across 22 sites/countries, recruited >2000 participants
2021 - National Awards,with/without money received
Swiss School of Public Health Award (1st prize for best PhD article in public health) for “Home-based oral self-testing for absent and declining individuals during a door-to-door HIV testing campaign in rural Lesotho (HOSENG): a cluster-randomised trial” published in The Lancet HIV; CHF 2000
2020 - Associate Editor Reviewer, listed by Journal Name
Associate Editor BMC Trials
2020 - Television Appearances and Interviews
The Lancet HIV Podcast (2020): With deputy editor Philippa Harris Mathebe Kopo (SolidarMed) and I discuss the HOSENG trial results
2019 - International Scientific Conferences, listed by Name
Talk and Chair of Session at the European Conference of Tropical Medicine and International Health in Liverpool, UK: "HIV/AIDS-related knowledge and stigma among village health workers in rural Lesotho, Southern Africa: Analysis of data from GET ON research project"
2019 - International Scientific Conferences, listed by Name
Key note at the Global Health Session of the Joint Annual Meeting 2019 of SGI, SGInf, SGSH, SGTP, SGTRM in Lausanne, CH: "Tackling the challenges of decentralized HIV testing and care in Southern Africa- two interlinked cluster-randomized trials in rural Lesotho"
2019 - National Awards,with/without money received
The alternative HEMMI award for my MD PhD project “Supporting Lesotho on the way towards the UNAIDS 90-90-90: Operational and clinical research addressing HIV/AIDS care in resource-limited settings” (CHF 10’000)
2017 - National Awards,with/without money received
AlumniMedizin Basel Award for my MD PhD project “Supporting Lesotho on the way towards the UNAIDS 90-90-90: Operational and clinical research addressing HIV/AIDS care in resource-limited settings” (CHF 20’000)
2015 - International Scientific Conferences, listed by Name
Panel moderation on behalf of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) at the Cochrane Colloquium 2015: "Research funding and global health burden: a tragic mismatch"
2014 - Management of Congresses, listed by name
UAEM (Universities Allied for Essential Medicines); Chair of the Conference; > 200 participants (>20 invited speakers) from all over Europe
