LMU Center for International Health (CIHLMU)

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

More detailed information can be found at the website
of the competence centre:

www.cih.lmu.de 

www.international-health.lmu.de

1 Project description

Health is a sphere, which is affected by deficiencies in many other areas. These include hunger and poverty as well as the discrimination of women and environmental pollution. Those who wish to improve medical care, must therefore tackle a wide range of other policy issues. The competence centre of the University of Munich (LMU Centre for International Health (CIH^LMU )) and its international cooperation partners address health problems in developing countries at many levels: research, education and development of political solutions. The project aims to enable partner universities to define their own education and research curricula, to become integrated in international intelligence networks, to put the results of their research into practice at political level and to consult decision makers competently. The aim is to train experts, who can contribute to the solving of country specific problems.

CIH^LMU concentrates the existing excellence in the excellence centre in an centre with enough weight to make a significant contribution to the achievement of the MDGs. Four faculties and 12 institutes in 23 partnerships in Asia, South America and Africa are involved in the activities of CIH^LMU .

The CIH^LMU will initially concentrate on six partnerships with Vietnam, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Tanzania, South Africa and Chile, which can spread the expertise and excellence regionally. Using a three pillar concept, essential elements of the health system will be strengthened and expanded:

• development of the vocational and continuing education at the partner institutions through the creation of innovative curricula and the improvement of teaching and clinics

• promotion of high standard research to contribute to the MDG through the establishment of the PhD program "International Health”

• training of experts and decision makers

 

Primary Millennium Development Goals:

MDG 8: Develop a global partnership for development
MDG 6: Combat HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Further Millennium Development Goals:

MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
MDG 5: Improve maternal health
MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
MDG 4: Reduce child mortality
MDG 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
MDG 2: Achieve universal primary education

2 Cooperation partners

Main partners

University of Da Nang, Vietnam
Jimma University, Ethiopia
Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile
Mbeya Referral Hospital, Tanzania

Other partners

Université de Yaounde, Cameroun
University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Universidad Mayor, Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier, Bolivia
Universidad Catiolica Boliviana San Pablo, Bolivia
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru
Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Bolivia
Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil
Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile

3 Contact persons

Responsible person 

Dr. Michael Hoelscher
CIH^LMU Center for International Health
Abteilung für Infektions- und Tropenmedizin
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Leopoldstrasse 5
80802 München

phone +49 (0) 89 2180 3517
Fax: +49 (0) 89 336038

e-mail: cih AT lrz DOT uni-muenchen DOT de or tropinst AT lrz DOT uni-muenchen DOT de

4 Publications

Relevant publications of the project can be found here.

• Africa Sub-Sahara
• Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania
• Central and Eastern Europe
• Latin America
• North America
• Northern Africa and the Middle East
• Western Europe