On 24th November we had the pleasure to meet the winner team of the “ Global Health Case Challenge 2016 on Antibiotic Resistance ”. This initiative results from the collaboration between the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, the EIT Health Campus programme, and...
Epidemiology ,Policy & Global Development This has been an eventful year in global health. It has also been so for our institute, that enters a new phase with the merger of CREAL and the incorporation of research on non-communicable diseases and environment. The Zika virus [...] spread from Brazil to USA in less than one...
Environmental Health We want to establish the patterns of exposure of the human body to the radiation and ascertain to what degree RF may affect our health In recent years, we have witnessed the very rapid evolution of mobile communications. Just two decades ago, this technology was limited to a single...
How can we more effectively bridge the gap between science and the public? How can we get ordinary people involved in some or all of the processes involved in research? At Barcelona’s third annual Citizen Science Day , held on 18 November at Pere Quart Civic Centre, we saw many examples...
Yaws The exposed population comprises some 40 million people who live in the 13 countries Ordinary citizens, for the first time, have a unique opportunity to make a contribution to the eradication of an infectious disease from our planet. The disease is yaws , an infection for which...
Policy & Global Development ,Training & Education Pharmaceutical products for these diseases cannot be developed through the traditional ‘patent’ system Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) predominantly affect the world’s poorest populations . Accordingly, pharmaceutical products for these diseases cannot be developed...
HIV/Aids [This post has been written by Denise Naniche , Laura de la Fuente , Elisa López , Lucía Pastor and Elisabetta Salvo ] International collaboration and integrated efforts are essential Mozambique is a country with a particularly high HIV prevalence in adults...
HIV/Aids Is HIV infection associated with poverty? Are there other factors involved in this possible association? These are questions that exercise the minds of at least one person (and in reality many more) in the world today. Middle- and low-income regions are the areas hardest hit by the...
Epidemiology [This article has been written by Adelaida Sarukhan , PhD in Immunology scientific writter at ISGlobal, and Joaquim Gascon , Head of the International Health Service at Hospital Clínic and Director of the Chagas Initiative at ISGlobal, and published in Spanish in El País -...
Zika They are the most beautiful mosquito species we have: The Aedes family . Small, dark with bright white spots and stripes. But that is only beauty on the outside. In reality, these Aedes mosquitoes are tiny murder machines: They are the most deadly mosquito family on our planet , as they...
