Research Projects

Through the CIH^LMU Network Funds, CIH^LMU aims to strengthen its partners and alumni and stimulate their collaboration. For this purpose partners and alumni are invited to apply e.g. with training workshops, clinical training programs or research projects with other partners (South-South activities).

The following projects have been funded in the last years:

2023/2024

• ECOH Water

• One health assessment of human and animal fecal exposure, determinants, and its management among rural households in Ethiopia and Ghana: Implications for the conventional water, sanitation, and hygiene approaches

• Insects as Food: Mother's perception on feeding their children with insect-fortified food and the impact of different breeding regimes on the nutritional composition of insects

• ANTIBIOtic RESidues in Food: a comparative analysis in Bolivia, Italy, Ghana, and Nepal

2021/2022

• ECOH: Environment Care with a One Health approach

• The role of Khat (Catha edulis) in spreading antimicrobial-resistant Bacteria: A quantitative risk assessment from Farm to end-users using a one health approach, Jimma Ethiopia

• Psycho Afro-mosquitoes: Investigating Psychographic determinAnts of students and entomological factors on the use of enetically modified mosquitoes for control in Africa

• Mobile Health Application for Young People’s Mental Health - Building Capacity by Implementing a Mobile Health Application for Young People’s Mental Health in Ethiopia and Somaliland

• SBEES: Stingless BEEs as an ecological, Social capital and public health richness

2020

• Joint Initiative for Teaching and Learning on Global Health Challenges and One Health (JITOHealth)

• Modern Design & Interactive Teaching Methods, (MoDITeM)

• CRASH CAGE: Identification of causes, reasons and solutions for high COVID-19 mortality rate in aged populations

• Pediatric point-of-care-lung-ultrasound (plus) – a pediatrics plus in Beira/Mozambique by CIH^LMU

• Assessment of SARS CoV2 RNA from municipal waste water to monitor viral prevalence in the community, in Ethiopia

• One-Health Knowledge Café

2019

• UAW - Understanding AIDS Worldwide studying immunopathogenesis and correlates of protection in HIV infection caused by different subtypes

• Workshop on Occupational and environmental toxicology assessment for epidemiological studies in developing countries

2018

• Labor insertion, working conditions and health in recently graduated health professionals: Cohort study (Baseline)

• Pilot Courses of Occupational Health in Rural Areas of Latin America

• PLAY HIGH - Premature acceLerated Ageing in Young HIV-infected Individuals: Global research initiative

2016

• FASD - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

• Pilot Study: Pesticide exposure in agriculture workers in Colombia and Bolivia

• Workshop on Causal Inference

2015

• Employment, working and health conditions in Bolivian teachers

• Workshop Data analysis and interpretation for health professionals