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On Saturday, 19th of June, 2021, Curacao Biomedical & Health Research Institute (CBHRI) launched a new project named COVIDCAS.
COVIDCAS is a ZonMW funded research project dealing with the impact of COVID-19 measures on vulnerable families in Curacao, Aruba and Sint Martin.
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Immunology
The Department of Immunology is involved in understanding of the immune response in infectious diseases and cardiovascular conditions.
Epidemiology
Epidemiology
The Department of Epidemiology focuses on the study of frequency and distribution of diseases and the underlying determinants of health.
Virology
The Department of Virology is involved in development and validation of diagnostics, studies of pathogenesis and development of intervention strategies for several viruses of importance for Dutch Caribbean and the region.
Oncology
The department of Oncology will study several aspects of diagnosis and treatment of cancers relevant to the Dutch Caribbean, in close collaboration with other groups in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Social sciences
The Department of Social sciences focuses on the determinants of health, health behavior and health services utilization.
Capital Management
The Capital Management Office (CMO) of CBHRI is responsible for the financial administration of grants funded by life-science funding agents, corporate responsibility foundations (CRF), charity foundations (CF), and crowd funding (FR).
GROUP LEADERS
Ashley Duits
Co founder & Head of Immunology
Specialized in immunology of infectious diseases and immunological & hematological aspects of sickle cell disease with special focus on angiognesis….
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Tineke Alberts
Head of Social Sciences
Specialized in research on health services utilization and socioeconomic health inequalities…..
John-John Schnog
Head of Oncology
Izzy Gerstenbluth
Co founder & Head of Epidemiology
Specialized in general public health, with a special focus on development of surveillance & monitoring systems….
Byron Martina
Co founder & Head of Virology
Virologist – Specialized in ‘exotic viruses’ Dengue, Hanta, West Nile, Chikungunya, Rabies, Influenza, Mers-Coronanvirus and Enterovirus-71 infections….
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