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  • Aligning research and innovation through the European Partnership on One Health and Antimicrobial Resistance (EUP OHAMR)

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    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health challenge that affects human and animal health, food security and the environment. The European Partnership on One Health and Antimicrobial Resistance (EUP OHAMR) brings together 53 organisations from 30 countries across the EU and beyond, aiming to close knowledge gaps and break silos between sectors, disciplines and perspectives. […]

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  • Health & Prosperity – Conference Report

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    On 10 March, KIT Institute hosted the high-level conference “Health and Prosperity: How Dutch Investments in Global Health Drive Security and Economic Growth”, bringing together key stakeholders to examine the Netherlands’ investment role in global health initiatives. This event will highlight the economic and societal return on investment of Dutch contributions to global health financing, which […]

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  • BRIDGE Mentorship Initiative

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    The BRIDGE Mentorship Initiative is based on the BRIDGE guidelines for good epidemiological practice in epidemiology. The pilot programme has been initiated in partnership with Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium. Our goal is for the initiative to bring researchers conducting epidemiological studies around the globe together. Recent developments in research integrity led by researchers […]

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  • Predicting communities with hightuberculosis case-finding efficiency tooptimise resource allocation in Pakistan: comparing the performance of anegative binomial spatial lag modelwith a Bayesian machine-learningmodel

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    Despite progress in tuberculosis (TB) treatment coverage in past years, an estimated 183000 people with TB may not have been diagnosed in Pakistan in 2022. Therefore, there is a need to develop models which help to steer active case finding (ACF) towards populations with a high probability of having undetected TB. The aim of this […]

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  • Geospatial tools and data for health service delivery: opportunities and challenges across the disaster management cycle

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    As extreme weather events increase in frequency and intensity, the health system faces significant challenges, not only from shifting patterns of climate-sensitive diseases but also from disruptions to healthcare infrastructure, supply chains and the physical systems essential for delivering care. This necessitates the strategic use of geospatial tools to guide the delivery of healthcare services […]

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  • Impact Evaluations for Health Systems Strengthening

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    Discounts and Fees We offer a range of discounts for early bird applicants, alumni, tropEd students and groups. See below the discounts and fees for Health Planning and Programming (HPP course). See for more information about our discounts for groups and other short courses on our exclusive discount page.

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  • Evidence for public health responses: Statistical Methods in Epidemiology

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    This two-week course is designed to equip you with advanced statistical skills crucial for informed decision making in public health. This course delves into essential methodologies for planning epidemiological field surveys, conducting sample size calculations, and analysing complex data in R-statistical programme language, to address pressing public health challenges.

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  • Foundations of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Public Health

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    This dynamic two-week course equips you with essential skills and knowledge to navigate the landscape of evidence-informed decision making in global public health.
    This course delves into the foundational principles of monitoring, evaluation, and learning within the frame of global public health.

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  • Enabling targeted mass drug administration for schistosomiasis in north-western Tanzania

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    Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease in Tanzania affecting over 50% of the population. Current control strategies involve mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns at the district level, which have led to problems of over- and under-treatment in different areas. WHO guidelines have called for more targeted MDA to circumvent these problems, however a scarcity of prevalence […]

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  • Improving access to preventive medicine: a data visualization and analysis platform to support microplanning of schistosomiasis control  

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    KIT and in country partners are designing a real time monitoring and evaluation platform to facilitate decision making for the control and management of schistosomiasis. This tool will build upon the MATCH methodology that seeks to inform decision making through better use of data.   In the 2021-2030 roadmap, the WHO calls for: With the limited resources available for reducing transmission and […]

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  • Bats, parachutes and bridges: How can epidemiologists improve global health research practice?

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    Epidemiologist Sandra Alba is part of a team that developed a new set of guidelines to address issues of research integrity and fairness in international health research collaborations. She explains what the guidelines hope to achieve, and how.

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  • Whatever can go wrong, need not go wrong: Open Quality approach for epidemiology

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    Quality assurance is one of the most important aspects of an epidemiological study, as its validity is largely determined by data quality. The mounting success of quality management in the industrial sector caused a rapid spread throughout manufacturing industries and beyond. Yet, little has been published so far on quality assurance in epidemiology. In this article […]

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