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CRSN Nouna
Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna
Over the past 20 years, the institute has a
particularly close cooperation with the
Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna in
Burkina Faso. This research center deve-
loped from a large public health research
project which started in 1989. In 1999 it
was fully integrated in the organogram of
the Ministry of Health directly affiliated
with the Cabinet of the Minster of Health.
This underlined the policy relevance that
the center had gained in pioneering and
scientifically evaluating new policies, e.g. in
the area of health insurance or the improve-
ment of quality of care. With the large and
long-term collaborative grant on "Control of
tropical infectious diseases" other research
areas were built up: a parasitological and
biological lab, clinical trial capabilities, and
most recently an environental/meteoro-
logical information system. The core data
base linking all these research areas was
a dynamic population-register of deaths,
births and migration, called "demographic
surveillance system" (DSS). The CRSN Nou-
na was a founding member and has been a
leading partner in the Africa-Asia research
network "INDEPTH" since its inception in
1999. Since 1986, preceding the partner-
ship with Nouna, a cooperation treaty was
signed between the two medical faculties of
University of Heidelberg and Ouagadougou
University. In the future, the CRSN will
assume the role of a teaching and research
collaborating centre of the medical faculty
Ouagadougou.
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We have the privilege to work with a large
number of partners and countries on a
project basis. However, some partners stand
out through mutual long-term partnership
arrangements, based on complementarity
in research and training. The partners
presented in this chapter in more detail are
the Nouna Health Research Centre CRSN,
the BRAC University with the collaboration
ICDDRB in Bangladesh, the Zhejiang Uni-
versity in Hangzhou in China, the INDEPTH
network, partners in Malawi and the Tongji
Medical College.
Among the European partners we have
long-term collaborations with the Univer-
sity of Umeå and the Karolinska Institute
in Sweden, the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in UK and
the University Paul Sabatier and French
Space Research Center (CNES) in Toulouse,
France.