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Public Health Policies are fundamental for any country, not only for the obvious reasons of its population health and well-being, but also for its development, be it social, economic, scientific, cultural, ecological – the concept of Global Health naturally emerges. Nevertheless, just to have nice policies doesn’t solve problems, especially if the country is plagued […]
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Érica Simão, a young Mozambican medical doctor, graduated in General Medicine from the Catholic University of Mozambique, is a student of the «Masters in Public Health and Development» at IHMT. For her MSc Thesis, she proposed to develop a project extremely relevant for her home country, at Maputo’s Military Hospital. The research conducted under GHTM’s […]
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Angola’s importance in the HIV pandemic HIV pandemic has been around since the 70’s, but when and where was its outset? A few years ago, phylogenetic studies pointed to nowadays Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the beginning of the 20th century. GHTM’s scientists, led by Prof. Ana Abecasis, from that conclusion, put forward the […]
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The MicroBiotec21 congress sponsored by the Portuguese Society of Microbiology (SPM) and the Portuguese Society of Biotechnology (SPBT) ended last Friday, 26 November 2021. Taking place between the 23rd and 26th of November, 2021, it was promoted by the NOVA University of Lisbon with an important participation of GHTM-IHMT-NOVA researchers, in a completely virtual online format […]
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