The Institute of Child Health and Human Development (ICHHD) is one of the collaborators in an international research project investigating pneumococcal disease among children in the Philippines.
The University of Lucerne has secured international funding for the SPARC-FAST Collaboration, a research initiative that will study pneumococcal disease among Filipino children and generate evidence to improve child health outcomes. This project is led by Dr. Peter Francis Raguindin, Senior Research Assistant at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine at the University of Lucerne, in collaboration with PD Dr. med. Petra Zimmermann, PhD, Senior Pediatrician and Clinical Researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Central Switzerland. International project partners include the Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the University of the Philippines Manila and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia, two leading institutions in the field of global child health in the Asia-Pacific region.
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