GHTM researcher Filipe Lopes spent time in Dar Es Salaam, Ifakara, and Bagamoyo evaluating the potential of innovative citizen science systems for mosquito monitoring and to adapt them to environments with endemic mosquito-borne diseases.
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Researchers and PhD students travel to Santiago Island, Cabo Verde, to take part in fieldwork for the RESPIRA-CV project
RESPIRA-CV began on April 2024 and will be developed in the next 3 years. Researchers took part in collecting anthropometric and biological data and administering questionnaires on symptoms of allergic diseases.
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CLIMOS data results link climate change to shifts in sand fly distribution, escalating leishmaniasis concerns
The CLIMOS consortium, led by Carla Maia, Assistant Researcher and member of VBD-GHTM Research Group, held a four-day General Assembly in Serbia, hosted by the team of the Institute for Medical Research of the University of Belgrade, in an effort to test monitoring tools and the developed surveillance Early Warning System (EWS). In this meeting, […]
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Results from GHTM Research Projects were presented at 11th EDCTP Forum
Four members of GHTM group participated in the 11th EDCTP Forum, helded in Paris, France, and online between November 7th – 10th 2023. The EDCTP Forum is a biennial event that “provides an international platform for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research addressing the burden of poverty-related and neglected infectious diseases in […]
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VAX-TRUST: GHTM-IHMT hosted the seminar on strategies to tackle vaccine hesitancy
Between 24th and 26th of October, the GHTM-IHMT-NOVA hosted a seminar to reflect on strategies for health professionals to address vaccine hesitancy, an event included in the workplan of the project intitled VAX-TRUST: Addressing vaccine hesitancy in Europe. This initiative involved near two dozen researchers from the consortium and took as its starting point […]
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