GHTM enhances African epidemiology
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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Cascais Municipality SARS-CoV-2 sero-epidemiological survey: presentation of 1st phase results
Having as a mission «To foster research, training and implementation on Global Health and Tropical Medicine», GHTM R&D Centre’s researchers are very interested to better understand the percentage of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the Portuguese Speaking Communities, in Portugal or abroad. In May 2020, the Cascais City Council established a partnership with GHTM to conduct […]
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GHTM Researchers’ MSM project gets Brazilian media attention!
LGBTQ+ flag vector created by jcomp – www.freepik.com Researchers from various academic fields have studied different life aspects of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the last decades. Arguably, their health issues are the most analysed, mainly because of their role in the AIDS epidemic history, which revealed not only its trigger […]
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GHTM for Teens – Biobanks: discover their importance in scientific research!
Two secondary school students came to GHTM’s «BIOTROP – Biotropical Resources Biobank» for the internship «Biobanks: discover their importance in scientific research!», a joint project between GHTM and «Ciência Viva – National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture». On the third week of July, Carolina and Inês, two teenage girls from school years 10 […]
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