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…
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…
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…
As part of the Global Health Protection Programme (GHPP) ‘One Health Namibia’, backed and financed by the Federal Ministry of Health of Germany, support of the Republic of Namibia in order to control antimicrobial resistance (AMR) plays a central role, in line with the…
The IHR Summer School is an RKI-organised one week-course for participants from partner countries that builds on the need for cooperation between countries explicitly mentioned in Article 44 of the International Health Regulations (IHR (2005)). The course aims to strengthen the IHR (2005) core capacities of selected partner countries, especially…
The Cohort 6 of the Namibian Frontline FETP was successfully trained by the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) and MoHSS in partnership with US-CDC, WHO and RKI between 17 January and 6 April 2022. A Twinning Project for the establishment of a Namibia Institute of Public Health (NIPH) between the…
We stay where the animals stay, we eat where the animals eat, we drink the same water as the animals. Our interlocutor tells us this while sitting on a wooden bench in the middle of the open cattle stables surrounded by his own animals and the ones from others. It…