From 7 to 11 July 2025, twenty-five researchers from Nigeria and Germany gathered for an interdisciplinary Manuscript Writing Workshop. The event was organised as part of the COPE project and took place at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut on the island of Riems. The COPE project promotes community-driven solutions to Lassa fever within…
In southeastern Nigeria, the COPE project is placing communities at the center of One Health. Following the COPE Strategy, community members were trained to identify their own health challenges related to Lassa fever, set priorities, and design solutions which they then implemented with support from the project. To capture change…
The country teams from the three project countries of the OH-EVI (Evidence-Informed Policy Approaches for One Health) project successfully held face-to-face workshops in Ghana, Croatia and Nigeria in January and February 2025. The workshops served two main purposes: validating each country’s One Health situation analysis and priority-setting, and…
Since September 2024, the CARe project has been funding four research projects to improve public health in Africa. Two of the projects already have made exciting progress. The project ‘Feasibility and effectiveness of a training intervention for informal caregivers of people living with dementia in rural Uganda (FETIC-DU)’ has tested…
Effective infectious disease prevention starts at the community level. The COPE project operates on the principle that communities themselves are best equipped to identify and address the own health-related concerns. From 19 to 23 August 2024, the project lead of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) and…
In June this year, the CARe project (Capacity Building in Applied Public Health Research in GHPP partner countries) issued a call for project proposals whose aim was to build capacity in developing and facilitating public health research in Sub-Saharan Africa. More than 270 applications were submitted in response to the…
The meetings were preceded by a preparatory phase during which various training sessions, stakeholder visits and the official community entry had been planned. This also included steps of familiarising and awareness work. Team members from all project partners were involved in the planning and implementation: the Nigeria Centre for…
To address morbidity and mortality associated with Lassa fever, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) and Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) launched the MEVIN project in 2023, which is part of the Global Health Protection Programme (GHPP). The BNITM has enhanced its support to Nigeria in addressing the current…
As part of this new programme phase of GHPP (2023-2025), our project CELESTA focuses on expanding the genomic surveillance capacity for RNA (ribonucleic acid) viruses of our cooperation partners. They are: the Laboratoire de Centre de Recherche en Virologie – Laboratoire des Fièvres Hemorragiques Virales de Guinée (CRV-LFHVG) in Conakry, Guinea,…