CUBA STANDARD — A program for health and pandemic prevention involving German, Mexican and Cuban institutions will be based at the Universidad de La Habana, the German embassy announced in a press release.
The program, funded through 2025 with €3 million by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), includes the University of Havana, Charité Berlin, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, and Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM). It also has partners in Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
The German-Latin American Centre of Infection & Epidemiology Research and Training (GLACIER) is one of eight such centers planned worldwide by DAAD — four focusing on health and pandemics, and four on climate change. The German foreign service is supporting the centers with €22 million through 2025.
“The center’s highly relevant focus is on prevention and treatment of infectious disease, to which Cuba’s current progress in the independent development of vaccines against COVID-19 will contribute,” the press release said.
The goal of the Havana-based program is to increase prevention and treatment capacities of infectious disease in Germany, Mexico and Cuba and improve crisis prevention and reaction. Among others, the center will expand international master’s PhD and training programs.
Other centers will be located in Vietnam, Ghana, Gabon, India, Colombia, Jordan, and Cote d’Ivoire and Kenya.
