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Information about Influenza
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Mission |
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Vision |
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To contribute to
improving the quality of life of the Cuban population and
the rest of the international community, offering fast,
specialized and Hi-Tech services in diagnostic tests,
medical care delivery, teaching as well as in the
development of research projects; focused on the
prevention, control and eradication of communicable
diseases
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We are an institution
with international scope, integrated by competent,
high-performance personnel, that continuously improve its
technology and services to face communicable diseases and
satisfy the needs of both the population and its own
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Annual Health Awards 2009 |
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Recently, the Annual Health Awards 2009 were presented.
The Winners from our institution were the following
researchers:
Dr. María Guadalupe Guzmán. Ph.D., for her
investigation:
"Dengue and Hemorrhagic Dengue, Cuba,
1981-2005".
(Award)
Dr.
Luis Sarmiento, Ph.D., for his investigation:
"Association between enterovirus infection
and diabetes
typo I: new scientific evidences".
(Mention)
Congratulations to
the Winners !!!
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Virtual Course (Distant-learning Course) |
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Ranking Web of
World Hospitals, July '09 |
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IPK's 70th Anniversary |
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During the Closing Session of the
VIII Central American and Caribbean
Congress of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, held
from 4-7 December 2007, Dr. Gregorio Delgado García,
Medical Historian of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba and
Head Professor of the Department of History of the Public Health
at the National Public Health School, delivered the lecture
entitled "The Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute in the
70th Anniversary of its Foundation (1937-2007)". The
complete version of the lecture can be read
here
in Spanish.
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IPK in the
international scientific
press |
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Cuba's Jewel of
Tropical Medicine
by
Annmarie Christensen,
director of publications at the Global Health Council in
Vermont, USA. She
reported this story while visiting Cuba for the council in April
and it was published in PAHO's
"Perspective in Health Magazine", vol. 8, Issue 2, 2003
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Deciphering dengue:
the Cuban experience
Under this title, the prestigious Science magazine
published in its section "Global Voices of Science",
2September 2005,
vol. 309, no. 5740, pages 1495-1497, an article dedicated to
Dr. María G. Guzmán, PhD,
a prominent researcher of our institution. |
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