Research Profile

Serious public health problems pose increasingly similar threats to populations and governments around the world. Infectious diseases continue to be a problem in industrialized, transitional and particularly developing countries. Pandemics have threatened the world twice in the last decade. Aging populations and non-communicable chronic diseases are no longer a problem of the western hemisphere alone. Global environmental changes have potentially large, health effects all over the world, with different local disease profiles and intensities. Both rich and poor countries struggle to realize affordable access to high quality health care for every citizen and face the need to evaluate health interventions for their effectiveness, based on costs and societal priorities. Inequities in health and health care are the focus of public concern world-wide; in fact, health status has become one dimension of the modern comprehensive definition of poverty.
The School acknowledges that public health challenges (area A) , Public health tools (area B) and research methods (area C) aimed to improve the population‘s health, and advances in research methodology are intrinsically intertwined.


Of course research topics will have various combinations of the areas A,B and C, so the following graph illustrates some specific research topics on which prinicpal investigators currently cooperate/ tutor students.


If you want to visualize the type of collaboration at each of the crosses, please download the file (.xls) on your computer and open it in excel. If you move the cursor over the X you which to know more abouta popup text will show describing that collaboration.