After highly successful five years, the multi-disciplinary „German-Latin American Centre of Infection & Epidemiology Research and Training“ (GLACIER) has been awarded another five years of funding to continue its work in the period 2026-2030. GIGA will continue its cooperation with the Universidad de Costa Rica, with a new research project on health provision to migrants in Central America and Colombia. Funded by the DAAD with funds from German Federal Foreign Office.
Infectious diseases hit vulnerable populations such as migrants especially hard. At the same time, they imply risks of spreading to the host society. How, then, do host countries provide health care to migrants (documented or not)? What role do NGOs play? With US funding cuts for aid programs and multilateral institutions, who fills the gap?
The project will provide much-needed empirical evidence at the intersection of political science, global health, migration studies, and epidemiology on a question of high current relevance.
Comparative study on health provision to migrants in Central America and Colombia; interaction with medical scholars.