Course
Medical Courses
Basic seminar on travel medicine 2025
The date for the basic seminar on travel medicine 2025 will be published in autumn this year.
Teaching language: German
Diploma Course in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 2025
The course dates for the coming year are 31 March - 27 June 2025. The diploma course is a full-time, on-site course at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg. Online participation is not possible.
In 2025, the course will be held entirely in English for the first time.
Further information can be found here.
Online-Zusatzmodul: Arbeitsaufenthalt in den Tropen und Subtropen
Online-Zusatzmodul: Arbeitsaufenthalt in den Tropen und Subtropen für Absolventinnen und Absolventen des Basisseminars Reisemedizin vom 02.-03.06.2025. Mit diesem Kursus erlangen Sie zusammen mit dem Basisseminar Reisemedizin das DTG-Zertifikat Arbeitsaufenthalt in den Tropen.
Save the Date: Auffrischkursus Aktuelle Tropenmedizin I 2025
28.-29. Juni 2025
Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Tropenmedizin und neue interessante Arbeiten von Forschenden des BNITM: All das bietet unser Auffrischkursus I. Das Wer, Was, Wie und Wo planen wir noch und bitten um ein wenig Geduld.
International Courses
SHORT COURSE: LABORATORY SYSTEMS AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN RESOURCE-LIMITED SETTINGS (LAB-SPHERE)
Well-functioning and sustainable laboratory services are at the basis of strong health systems and crucial for improving public health and research capacities of countries. This is a 2-week intensive course aimed at describing the role of laboratory systems in strengthening health services and research capacity with a special focus on low and middle-income countries (LMIC). The emphasis is on explaining the structure and functions of laboratory systems and their effective and efficient management. Moreover, areas where laboratory systems overlap and/or complement health systems are being considered. The course uses interactive, simulation-based exercises, as well as practical sessions to complement the theoretical content.
Programme and more information
SHORT COURSE: EPIDEMIOLOGY & CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN OUTBREAK SETTINGS (EPICID)
Epidemiology provides important tools for the assessment and response to health threats in populations. This is a 3-week intensive course on the principles and methods of field epidemiology and the way these inform the control of infectious diseases in outbreak settings. The course uses interactive, simulation-based exercises, epidemiological case studies, laboratory- and computer-based practical sessions to complement the theoretical content.
GLOBAL-PARTNERSHIP-INITIATED-BIOSECURITY-ACADEMIA FOR CONTROLLING HEALTH THREATS (GIBACHT)
GIBACHT is an educational programme established and supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. The training programme focuses on threats and risks conferred by biological agents and bioweapons and their successful prevention and control. The programme is offered and responsibly conducted by two German institutes, the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, as well as the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland, and the African Field Epidemiology Network in Kampala, Uganda.
BNITM and partners from the German Biosecurity Programme are seeking applicants for the next cohort of in the international training programme 'Global Partnership Initiated Biosecurity Academia for Controlling Health Threats (GIBACHT)'.
Note for travel grants
Travel grants for scientists from low to middle income countries: Ortrud Mührer Travel Grant.
