Overview - Teams world wide
The department of infectious disease epidemiology consists of an assembly of international teams spread throughout the world.
Team Hamburg is part of the Bernhard Nocht Insitute for Tropical Medicine and also the headquarters of the department. Its focus is Research & Development as well as International Teaching & Capacity Building.
Team Kumasi is based at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR), Ghana, as well as at the Agogo Presbyterian Hospital and other hospitals, where most of our clinical studies are conducted.
Team Arusha is located in Arusha, Tanzania, and is mainly working within the East African Community (EAC) to establish a sustainable laboratory infrastructure and response network across East Africa.
Team Tanga is based at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in Tanga, as well as at the Magunga District Hospital in Korogwe, Tanzania.
Team Antananarivo is based at the University of Antananarivo at the Laboratoire de Microbiologie et de Parasitologie Université Antananarive (LMPUA) in Madagascar and is contributing to our research projects as well.

Head of Department
Jürgen May (-402)
Office Assistant
Ulrike Kolander (-402)
Scientific Project Management
Juliane Bönecke (-268)
Johanna Brinkel (-268)
Theresa Habermann
Maike Lamshöft (-268)
Scientific Staff
Daniela Fusco (-504)
Nicole Sunaina Gilberger (-639)
Irina Kislaya PhD
Robin Kobbe
Ralf Krumkamp (-535)
Eva Lorenz (-639)
Dr. med. Valentina Marchese
Eva Mertens (-243)
Andrea Molina (-268)
Viola Pavoncello PhD
Dewi Ismajani Puradiredja (-243)
Kathrin Schuldt (-405)
Ricardo Strauss (-243)
Thorsten Thye (-403)
Team Arusha, Tanzania
Florian Gehre
Muna Affara
Neema Omari
Grace A. Oshido
Julien A. Nguinkal
Team KCCR, Ghana
Data Management
Anna Jaeger (-503)
Jenny Kettenbeil (-268)
Wibke Loag (-503)
Berchie Agyemang Nti (-503)
Angelika Hensel (-503)
Technical Staff
Doris Winter (-244)
Kerstin Shand (-244)
Scientific staff (In house PhD students)
Lena Merkel
Lydia Rautmann
Solomon Wafula
Rehema Moirongo
Jana Hey
Pia Rausche
