Description The project is the first WHO collaboration center for the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), which is a global technical partnership coordinated by the WHO. GOARN is a network of over 200 institutions and other networks from 75 countries with the capacity and expertise to contribute to…
On request, RKI supported the Namibia partners during the third wave of COVID-19, which was by far the highest in Namibia resulting in a high number of hospitalised COVID-19 patients and high case fatality rates. In June 2021, it was unclear how long Namibia would be able to effectively manage…
PALS – the “Participatory Approach to Learning in Systems” is novel: based on a pilot project, the IPC practice approach and training concept were further developed by the NiCaDe IPC team and implemented for the first time in Nigeria 2019-2022. In evaluating the training program, we aim to investigate if…
Diagnostic stewardship study To evaluate the diagnostic stewardship interventions, a study with pre- and post-intervention data collection was conducted in two pilot secondary health care facilities in Abuja, Nigeria. The pre-intervention data collection took place from September 2020 to July 2021 (see report from December 2020). Due to the COVID-19…
As part of the ORDER-HC project, a team of the RKI and COMAHS conducted a qualitative study in Sierra Leone between the end of 2021 and the end of 2022. The aim of the study was to identify and analyse strategies, measures and experiences of health care providers of maintaining…
Background and Objectives The RKI has actively cooperated with the national Institute of Public Health in Montenegro (IPH) within the GETPrepaReD project since 2016. In this context, a kick-off workshop was held in March 2019, in which the need for the development of outbreak investigation guidelines was identified, their framework…
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 to meet…
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…