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News | 2017.09.29
Three projects from the Institut Pasteur in Dakar and Madagascar selected for funding by AESA’s Grand Challenge Africa
The African Academy of Sciences and the NEPAD Agency’s Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) announced funding for eight African innovators to tackle maternal, neonatal and child health on the Continent. Among them 2 teams from the Institut Pasteur in Dakar and one from the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar were selected from among about 400 applicants from 20 African...
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News | 2018.07.16
Can we make human plague history?
An international workshop to identify research priorities to improve human plague control.For most of the people living in high-income countries, plague is a disease that belongs to the middle-age. But the reality is that for the past 30 years, WHO has reported a continuously increasing number of human cases of plague and the disease is considered as “re-emergent” on different continents.In...
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News | 2014.09.16
Agreement between The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and the Institut Pasteur on the project: “Malnutrition and infections childhood in Africa”
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (MAEDI) and the Institut Pasteur signed in July 2014 a grant agreement for the project: “Malnutrition and infections childhood in Africa” (MALINEA) in the framework of the Priority Solidarity Fund of the MAEDI. This project will be carried out through a partnership which brings together the know-how and the...
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News | 2016.03.06
Launch of the AFRIBIOTA research program: a new approach in the fight against child malnutrition
More than 30 Madagascan and international scientists and clinicians met from March 7 to 9, 2016 at the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar for the official launch of the AFRIBIOTA project, an ambitious multidisciplinary research program to improve our understanding of chronic child malnutrition. The long-term aim of this innovative program, which combines fundamental and clinical research –...
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Article | 2017.02.27
International courses 2018
TITLEORGANIZERSINSTITUTEPLANNED DATESLINKLOCATIONDEADLINE FOR APPLICATION“Les techniques de l’Immunologie”, deuxième éditionFrançois HUETZIP Madagascar15 - 26 October IP MadagascarJuly, 31st 2018Methodology of Clinical Trials and practical implementationGwenaelle CARNIP Madagascar11 - 22 JuneApplication formIP MadagascarMarch, 31th2018Tuberculosis: from molecular diagnosis, drug...
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Article | 2019.07.09
Cours internationaux - 2019
TITLEORGANIZERINSTITUTEDURATION DATECOURSE PLACEAtelier NGS : Epidémiologie génomique, microbiome et métagénomique pour l'Afrique et l'Océan IndienJean-Marc COLLARDInstitut Pasteur Madagascar7 daysTo Be DefinedInstitut Pasteur MadagascarSystèmes d'information géographique appliquées à l'épidémiologie : Introduction au logiciel QGIS 2. Analyses multicritères spacialisées : Application en...
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News | 2018.12.18
Five young researchers from the Institut Pasteur International Network, at the 2018 doctoral ceremony
On 7 December 2018, the Institut Pasteur organized a ceremony in honor of young graduates who completed their science thesis at the Institut Pasteur during the 2017-2018 academic year. This ceremony exists since 2013. Opened by an exceptional conference of Prof. Serge Haroche, Nobel Prize in Physics 2012, the 2018 edition honored, among these young Pasteurian scientists, five who completed their...
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News | 2022.06.08
The role of social sciences in the response to an epidemic: the example of the COVID-19 pandemic
A lesser known but equally crucial dimension in managing and responding to an epidemic is social sciences in health, which can shed light on populations' understanding, perception and acceptance of the risks associated with diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. As the disease spread across the planet, clear differences in perception by populations were observed in different countries,...
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Article | 2017.02.27
Methodology of Clinical Trials and Practical Implementation
Summary The general objective of this course is to give to health professionals, students in healthcare professions and researchers working in the field, the theoretical and practical basics to enable them to design and monitor clinical trials that meet International quality standards as ICH-GCP (International Conference on Harmonization - Good Clinical Practices). This course that addresses...
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News | 2021.02.05
COVID-19 risk factors surveillance among healthcare workers: a study implemented by MediLabSecure Project
According to the WHO recommendations, a multi-centre surveillance study has been implemented among healthcare workers in five African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Niger, Central African Republic and Madagascar. Coordinated by Institut Pasteur, this cohort study aims to identify the contamination risk factors and better understand the transmission/spread of the virus. The revue “...