In November 2021, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) together with the World Health Organization (WHO), organized a joint workshop with the scope to develop an operational plan for a well-coordinated response to public health emergencies for North Macedonia. Within this plan, strengthening North Macedonia’s central PHEOC capacity and establishing a…
In the framework of the already established twinning partnership between Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Center (MDMC) from Indonesia and I.S.A.R. Germany, a physical workshop was conducted from 25 – 28 November 2022 in Weeze and Hünxe, Germany. It was the first time that the two partners were able…
From 31 October to 4 November 2022, an RKI-team from the WHO Collaborating Center for Viral Hepatitis and HIV travelled to Yerevan, Armenia, for the project COVIMPACT Hepatitis “Assessing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on viral hepatitis B and C elimination efforts in Eastern…
What is the structure of the project, how do people work together? The project is co-coordinated by Professor Milena Santric Milicevic in Belgrade, Serbia and Professor Kairat Davletov in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Together with the RKI team, they and their staff form the steering group. At the beginning of the project,…
The Robert Koch Institute is keen on sharing research findings with international partners to support evidence-informed decision making. In November 2022, a team of two RKI units and their local partner, College of Medicine & Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS), co-organised stakeholder workshops to present and discuss early findings of two…
From 17 – 21 October 2022, the RKI organised a joint evaluation workshop for the GHPP project COVIMPACT Hepatitis “Assessing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on viral hepatitis B and C elimination efforts in Eastern Europe and Central Asia”. Project partners from Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan from the…
National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) are advisory bodies that develop recommendations for policy maker to support them in taking country-owned, evidence-based, and sustainable decisions on immunization policies. Long-standing NITAGs such as the German NITAG “STIKO”, the UK “Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation” (JCVI) or the US “Advisory Committee…
The “Unit for Crisis Management, Outbreak Investigations and Training Programmes” (FG31) together with the “Information Centre for International Health Protection” (ZIG1) of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) have been implementing a joint project (ProTECt) together with the WHO Regional Office for Southeast Asia (SEARO) to strengthen national Health Emergency Operations…
From 5 July to 21 July 2022; Dr Arsene Zongo, scientist from Burkina Faso, spent 2 weeks at RKI in project group 3 (Epidemiology of highly pathogenic agents). During his stay, he deepened his knowledge in the field of molecular biology and bioinformatics. Indeed, since 2018 and thanks to the…