Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM)

Services of the institute include specific laboratory diagnostics of tropical diseases, emerging and other rare infections, a close co-operation with the German army as well as consultation of the scientific community, industry, politics and the public, which greatly contribute to the national standing of the institute. The institute comprises the National Reference Centre for Tropical Pathogens and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research.

Teaching activities include a 3-months, full-time course on all aspects of tropical medicine for physicians, further a structured training programme for PhD students and a number of activities of continuing education in topics related to travel medicine and international health.

In co-operation with the Ghanaian Ministry of Health and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, the institute since more than ten years runs the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), a modern research and training centre in Ghana, which is also available to external research groups.

As a member of the Leibniz Association and aresearch institute of national importance, the institute is jointly funded by the Federal Government, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the other federal states.