German-Latin American Centre of Infection & Epidemiology Research and Training (GLACIER)



  • Research Questions

    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?

    Contribution to International Research

    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.

    Research Design and Methods

    Comparative study on health provision to migrants in Central America and Colombia; interaction with medical scholars.

    How Asymmetric Immunity Wrote Caribbean History - and Why We Know so Little about It
    Bio-tech for development: The case of Cuba‘s anti-COVID vaccines

    German Institute for Global and Area Studies | 14/06/2022

    Bio-tech for development: The case of Cuba‘s anti-COVID vaccines

    Organiser: German Institute for Global and Area Studies Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann (Speaker)

    Cuba developed its own COVID vaccines. Medically they have been effective in bringing the pandemic under control. Given the difficulties in exporting them, however, their impact on the island’s cash-strapped economy remains limited.

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