GHTH-IHMT-NOVA scientists, Carla Maia , Miguel Viveiros and Anne-Mieke Vandamme were included in the latest update to the ranking of the world’s most cited scientists, made available by Elsevier BV last month. The ranking system, identified as the «World’s Top 2% Scientists list», is the result of a study coordinated by John Ioannidis, a professor […]
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GHTM Sessions 2021 – PPS01 » Cohort profile: the Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Acre, Brazil, birth cohort study (MINA-Brazil)
GHTM’s scientists propose a new vision for the «Global Health» concept
GHMT’s researchers Tiago Correia and Paulo Ferrinho, in collaboration with Brazilian colleague Cláudio Tadeu-Ribeiro from Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, wrote an Editorial Commentary for a soon to be released issue of the academic journal «One Health». Their piece, titled «Calling for a planetary and one health vision for global health», challenges the vision that the concepts of […]
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GHTM Researchers’ breakthrough to fight Mycobacterium tuberculosis’ drug resistance
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide, leading to 10 million human cases and 1.4 million associated deaths in 2019. Most cases are found in Asia, Africa, and Western Pacific regions. TB drug resistance is one of the major threats to control the disease, and its expansion is […]
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GHTM’s VIASEF inauguration
The “VIASEF – In Vivo Arthropod Security Facility” – Security infrastructure for arthropod disease vectors, was formally inaugurated on the 21th of June 2021, at 2:30 pm, by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Prof. Dr. Manuel Heitor, by the Rector of Universidade Nova Prof. Dr. João Sàágua and the Director of the […]
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