The project ‘Efficiency by Edification – Center of Excellence’ (EFFO-CoE) aims to enhance Rwanda’s capabilities to manage high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) such as Ebola virus disease and Lassa fever. Rwanda’s first high-level isolation unit (HLIU) is under construction and a training programme is being established for Rwandan health care…
The CARe project (Capacity Building in Applied Public Health Research in GHPP partner countries) invites you to their upcoming webinar on Economic evaluation of health interventions with Dr Francisco Pozo-Martin. In this webinar we will introduce the concept of economic evaluation of health interventions and discuss its importance as a…
The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) and Robert Koch Institute (RKI) have maintained a close and trusting cooperation since the successful start of the Namibia-RKI Twinning Project (TwiNit) in 2020. Further project partners are the Namibia Institute of Pathology (NIP) and the University of Namibia (UNAM).
The visit of the Namibian delegation in autumn 2023 aimed at further consolidating and strengthening the partnership between the Namibian Ministry of Health & Social Services (MoHSS) and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The five-member delegation from Namibia was led by Deputy Minister Dr Esther Muinjangue…
The CARe project (Capacity Building in Applied Public Health Research in GHPP partner countries) invites you to attend their upcoming webinar on Grantsmanship with Dr Josie Golding. Dr Josie Golding is the head of epidemics and epidemiology department at Wellcome, a global charitable foundation established in 1963. The aim…
Across the globe, hand hygiene is promoted to fight the spread of healthcare associated infections. Despite multiple ongoing hand hygiene campaigns and projects, healthcare associated infection rates remain high especially in low- and middle-income countries. The text depicts the project journey since 2017, when PASQUALE has been expanding its work…
EMTs are essential professional medical resources in response to health emergencies as they provide direct clinical care to affected populations. Uganda aims to establish a national “EMT Type 1” equivalent to a primary health care facility and to capacitate it for infectious disease response. The EMT partnership between Malteser International…
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, Ukraine has been in a state of emergency – in such situations, as a high-ranking federal authority/department the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), is also asked to use its capabilities to provide assistance on the ground. Among other things, ZBS 7 at Robert Koch-Institut…
From 19 to 21 September 2023, representatives of the Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) I.S.A.R. Germany and Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Center (MDMC) from Indonesia met for a joint workshop in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The meeting contributed to the project “Emergency Medical Teams Twinning, Training, Transfer of Knowledge” (EMT TTT)…