Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
About Us
The Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute (ITDI), seeks to improve the health status of communities through sustainable and comprehensive research, service, and educational initiatives related to infectious and tropical diseases.
The ITDI promotes multinational and multi-disciplinary collaborations through different initiatives: The Tropical disease Initiative, 细菌发病机制倡议, and the Reproductive and Sexual Health Initiative. These initiatives comprise 卫生保健专业人员, 公共卫生领导人, and educators providing training and research guidance to minimize the impact of infectious and tropical diseases on populations.
Our Mission
ITDI at newbb电子平台 seeks to improve the health status of communities through sustainable and comprehensive research, service and educational initiatives related to infectious diseases. We forge multi-disciplinary collaborations among researchers, 卫生保健专业人员, 公共卫生领导人 and educators to minimize the impact of infectious diseases on populations.
我们的计划
ITDI的计划提供指导, training, and coaching services to students from different educational institutions and backgrounds promoting multi-national and multi-disciplinary collaborations. 了解更多newbb电子平台的努力.
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热带病研究ITDI has a long history of supporting research on tropical diseases. The cornerstone of our current work is Chagas disease, 包括对生命周期的研究, 触角的表型, 几何的形态学, and molecular analysis of triatomine species genetic diversity.
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细菌发病机制倡议The Bacerial Pathogenesis Initiative's mission is to foster research in its field, promoting collaboration within newbb电子平台 as well as with colleagues in other institutions and/or organizations.
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Reproductive and Sexual Health InitiativeThe Reproductive and Sexual Health Initiative looks forward to advancing the field by fostering interdisciplinary research, 社区外展, education, and scholarly activities in collaboration with institutions and community-based organizations.
健康生活倡议
帮助农村社区
The Healthy Living Initative is a long-term initiative that aims to support socioeconomic development of rural communities as the main tool for the control of Chagas disease in the province of Loja in southern Ecuador. 采用整体方法, this public health strategy looks to prevent the transmission of Chagas and other diseases “associated with poverty” by facilitating participatory processes of human development that are sustainable and sustained by the people involved.
