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GHTM is a R&D Centre that brings together researchers from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of NOVA University Lisbon with a track record in Tropical Medicine and International/Global Health. It aims at strengthening Portugal’s role as a leading partner in the development and implementation of a global health research agenda. GHTM’s evidence-based interventions contribute to the promotion of equity in health and to improve the health of populations.

Our mission is to produce knowledge on global health and tropical medicine, develop tools and strengthen health systems through excellence in research, training and systems implementation.

Our organizational framework consists of four research groups; each include researchers with expertise in different areas. These are the following:

• Vector Borne Diseases (VBD),

• Tuberculosis, HIV and Opportunistic Diseases (THOP),

• Population Health, Policies and Services (PPS) and

• Individual Health Care (IHC).

In order to achieve cutting-edge outputs, the Centre operates in a transdisciplinary context in which relevant data and materials are exchanged between scientists in the different groups. The major research areas that are of shared interest – cross cutting issues, constitute the guiding principles of our working model and are the following:

• Global pathogen disper sion and population mobility,

• Drug discovery & resistance,

• Diagnostics,

• Fair research partnerships, and

• Public health information.

We host the WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Workforce Policy and Planning that supports the WHO’s strategic goal of optimizing the impact of the current and future health workforce on achieving healthy lives, universal health coverage and global health security through research, training and strategic advice.

Besides standard laboratory facilities, GHTM as specialized infrastructure such as: BSL-3 labs; accredited animal house; insectaries for breeding mosquitoes and sandflies; a Biobank – Biotropical Resources; and an Arthropod Safety Level 3 facility - VIASEF (Roadmap for Research Infrastructures, FCT, FEDER) is under construction.

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Profiles

Aida Maria da Conceição Esteves

AidaEsteves@ihmt.unl.pt

Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT) - Associate Professor
Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM) - Associate Professor
Vector borne diseases and pathogens (VBD) - Associate Professor

Person: Academic

Alexandra Sofia Oliveira Simões

assimoes@ihmt.unl.pt

Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT)
Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM) - Post-Doc Fellow
Population health, policies and services (PPS) - Post-Doc Fellow

Person

Ana Custódio

Centro de Malária e outras Doenças Tropicais (CMDT) - Researcher, Former employee

Person: Academic

Research Output

ABC Efflux Transporters and the Circuitry of miRNAs: Kinetics of Expression in Cancer Drug Resistance

Gomes, B. C., Honrado, M., Armada, A., Viveiros, M., Rueff, J. & Rodrigues, A. S., 23 Apr 2020, In : International Journal Of Molecular Sciences. 21, 8, 2985.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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A blood-free diet to rear Anopheline Mosquitoes

Marques, J., Cardoso, J. C. R., Félix, R. C., Power, D. M. & Silveira, H., 31 Jan 2020, In : Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. n.º 155, p. e60144-e60155 11 p., e60144.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

Análise da disponibilidade e prontidão de estruturas sanitárias com capacidade de internamento em duas regiões da Guiné-Bissau

Translated title of the contribution: Availability and readiness assessment of facilities with hospital admission capacity in two regions of Guinea BissauBeja, A., Van Hanegem Menezes, M., Augusta, B., Agostinho, ND., Neves, C. & Ferrinho, P., Feb 2020, In : Ordem dos Médicos. Vol. 33, n.º 2, p. 101-108 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article