Berlin/Hamburg, January 13, 2020 - The Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) is expanding its activities with a department dedicated to implementation research. At a ceremony, the invited guests emphasized the importance of the research branch, since it is not enough to just research and develop medicines and therapies. Rather, it is also about understanding how they are best brought to the sick and accepted by them. Therefore, implementation research should be organized in an interdisciplinary manner. In the future, social anthropologists, communication scientists, health economists will work together with colleagues from Africa at the BNITM. Prof. Dr. Jürgen May, head of implementation research and former spokesman for the German Network against Neglected Tropical Diseases, emphasized in the presence of Sabine Weiss, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health, that one cannot rely on common sense alone. You have to be able to rely more on empirical results.
