Short Description The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has shown that vaccines and therapeutics are not readily available to control an epidemic quickly. In many cases, health systems are overwhelmed under those conditions. Essential clinical trials can only take place with restrictions and delays, if at all. The RegTrain-VaccTrain project…
Short Description In order to achieve the World Health Organization’s End TB Strategy goals, in addition to scientific innovations, there is a need for countries and organisations to work together at national and international level. With an increasingly mobile world population, improved tuberculosis care and prevention among migrants needs to…
Short Description The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) is a network of over 200 partner institutions from over 75 countries (including 43 countries on the DAC list) which pools human and technical resources for rapid identification, confirmation and response to outbreaks of international importance. For…
Short Description Multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) represent an increasing threat for global tuberculosis (TB) control. Successful control of M/XDR-TB requires efficient drug susceptibility testing (DST) as basis for designing effective therapy regimens. However, e.g. due to inadequate infrastructure, DST is often missing or delayed in countries…
Short Description The early identification of pathogens plays an important role in controlling outbreaks of infectious diseases. The IDEA project will strengthen the diagnostic capacity for rapid detection of emerging infectious diseases in project countries and will gradually expand to include public health-relevant pathogens. Through community studies on the occurrence…
Short Description In the European Vaccine Action Plan, the WHO defined hepatitis B control through immunization as one of the major strategic goals. The WHO/EURO Action Plan for response to viral hepatitis sets the goal of elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. It also sets…
Short Description With the overall aim to support countries in managing risks at the animal-human interface, the project will support the work of the World Health Organization (WHO) (conducted in collaboration with OIE) to ensure the contribution of the animal health sector in the implementation of the International Health Regulations…
Short Description The IHR Summer School will be organized annually for five days. The first Summer School took place from 3 – 7 July 2017 with 23 participants from countries of Southeastern Europe. Based on concrete examples from the participating countries, the IHR Summer School addresses various reporting channels and…
Short description Challenges Addressed by the Project Capacity building is an important component of GHPP projects. It requires training and mentoring, learning and practice, and constant exchange. Due to time, cost or environmental reasons, this cannot always take place face-to-face. Therefore, the use of electronic forms and means of communication…