Parasitology, Health and Development

   

Section for Parasitology, Health and Develoment is a merger of DCEP - Danish Centre for Experimental Parasitology and DBL-Centre for Health Research and Development (PSU). We work with human and animal health from an integral, cross-disciplinary and inter-sectoral starting point in a national as well as international perspective.  

 

PSU collaborates with a number of universities and institutions on research, education, capacity building, knowledge management and research based service provision in the South and in the North.

Research

PSU apply conventional as well as new biotech methods both in the laboratories and in the field in our work with diagnostics, pathogenesis and regulatory mechanisms for infection and disease.

The section does research in determinants of human and animal health in a biophysical, social, economic and cultural context, and in interventions and health systems.

 

Education

PSU place great emphasis on the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. education and the section is responsible for the parasitology teaching to veterinary students and for the special Masters in Parasitology. We support individual M.Sc.-students from the South studying with the section as part of our global network.

The Ph.D. programme is a vital part of out activities, and the section support individual Ph.D. students from the South as part of institutional capacity building in disease prevention and control.

Knowledge Management

PSU turn research into practice to close the so-called”Know-Do”-gap. Facilitation of networks and development of strategies are components of this effort.

Research based service provision

PSU offers and carries out service provision for Danida and other bilateral and international organisations concerning sustainable devlopment in e.g. the following areas:

· Disease prevention and control in animals and humans

· Health Impact Assessments

· Health systems

· Health information systems

· Health aspects of water- and sanitation programmes

· The impact of environmental and social factors on health

PSU is officially recognised as a WHO collaborating centre in the following areas:

 

WHO Collaborating Centre for Integrated Control of Helminth Infections

WHO Collaborating Centre for Health and Environment in Sustainable Development

WHO/FAO Collaborating Centre for Emerging and other Parasitic Zoonoses