Supporting Services

General Manager: Jean-Christophe Donck

Mission: to provide optimal support to the departments and governing bodies, to partner constructively with our stakeholders, to contribute to ITM’s scientific excellence and relevance, to safeguard compliance, sustainability and transparency, to promote staff satisfaction and well-being.

Clinical Sciences

Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Lut Lynen

Mission: to generate and disseminate clinical knowledge and to improve patient care by research, training and reference services in the field of tropical and global infectious diseases.

Spear points:

• Febrile illnesses in the tropics and in travellers
• Neglected tropical diseases
• Emerging and epidemic infectious diseases
• Tropical bacterial infections
• Antibiotic resistance and stewardship
• Sexually transmitted infections
• HIV & co-infections (tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, hepatitis C)

Biomedical Sciences

Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Dujardin

Mission: to generate, disseminate and apply scientific knowledge on pathogens and vectors of tropical infectious diseases, and to develop tools for their diagnosis, surveillance and control.

Spear points:

• Pathogen diversity, using different ‘omic’ approaches
• Molecular basis of pathogen adaptation and evolution strategies
• Tools for diagnosis, surveillance and control of disease
• Dynamics of pathogen transmission
• Ecological basis for sustainable control or elimination of diseases

Public Health

Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Anne Buvé

Mission: to generate, disseminate and manage scientific knowledge relevant to public health in developing countries through research, postgraduate education and service delivery.

Spear points:

• Evaluation of complex and integrative health interventions
• Evaluate and improve interventions for the control of tropical diseases
• Reproductive health, including HIV
• Non-communicable diseases
• Health policies and health financing