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)…
The CARe (Capacity Building in Applied Public Health Research in GHPP partner countries) project kicked-off its on-the-job training programme in Applied Public Health Research with a face-to-face workshop in Windhoek, Namibia, from 30th October to 3rd November 2023. Twenty-eight public health specialists from the African region participated in the…
Context The Western Balkans (WB6: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia) went through a particularly dramatic initial COVID-19 pandemic course, with inter alia high excess mortality (direct and indirect pandemic related deaths), low vaccination rates and stressed public healthcare systems. Consequently, the risk of future waves of…
Context Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental disorders are on the rise globally; 80% of annual deaths from NCDs occur in low and middle-income countries. In 2019, NCDs, including mental disorders, caused over 2.1 million premature deaths, and more than 204 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) were lost due to NCDs…