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Access details for the Infectiology Seminar "HUNTT: The HIV-1 Unique Recombinant Form Novelty Tagging Tool for German HIV-1 Sequences"

Overview page , 06/06/2025

RKI newsletter on international activities

Overview page , 02/06/2025

The aim of the AntibioResDE (Antibiotic Resistance in Germany) project is to provide up-to-date information on antibiotic resistance in Germany on an electronic platform in order to simplify access to resistance data for clinical practice. AntibioResDE can thus help to prevent the development of resistance and thus treatment failure in bacterial infections.

Overview page , 02/06/2025

25,450 people were diagnosed with malignant melanoma

Overview page , 27/05/2025

The 10th Applied Bioinformatics and Public Health Microbiology Conference hosted by Wellcome Connecting Science in Cambridge from 21 to 23 May 2025, U.K., highlighted the transformative impact of microbial and viral genomics, bioinformatics, and data science on modern public health.

Overview page , 27/05/2025

In response to the ongoing outbreak of cholera in Angola, the National Focal Point for Emergency Medical Teams (EMT NFP) at the Centre for International Health Protection at RKI supported the deployment of a joint German EMT by sending a senior expert for infection prevention and control (IPC) and outbreak response.

Overview page , 23/05/2025

At the invitation of the Mozambican Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), the annual conference of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) took place in the capital Maputo from April 9 – 10, 2025. More than 100 representatives from 60 national public health institutes (NPHI) attended and over 200 participants were connected online.

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"UMID: Umwelt und Mensch – Informationsdienst" provides information twice a year on current topics in the fields of environment and health, environmental medicine and consumer protection. It is published jointly by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, the Robert Koch Institute and the German Environment Agency. The abstracts of the articles are available in English.

Overview page , 12/05/2025

Welcoming the 2025 GOARN Berlin fellowsThe world is becoming increasingly interconnected, which brings numerous advantages but also poses challenges to the area of public health. Infectious disease outbreaks, natural hazards and man-made disasters need to be considered in a global context to minimise the threat to the health of people. This is the focus of the WHO Collaborating Centre for GOARN (WHO CC GOARN), the only one of its kind in the world, based at the Robert Koch Institute. The Collaborating Centre is supporting the activities of GOARN (Global Outbreak and Response Network), a global network of more than 300 institutions that respond to acute public health outbreaks by deploying personnel and resources to affected countries. It is a central mechanism of the World Health …

Overview page , 12/05/2025

The CARe (Capacity Building in Applied Public Health Research in GHPP partner countries) project will soon hold its last in-person workshop. The workshop is part of an on-the-job training programme in Applied Public Health Research which has been running since October 2023.