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University Partnership with Namibia

University Physicians and Researchers Teach in Windhoek

This partnership concerns asthma, lung cancer, tuberculosis and medical emergencies. Since 2012, our Universität zu Lübeck has been training medical students from the University of Namibia in Windhoek, with funding from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). A new programme being funded is BREATHE, which focusses on lung cancer.

Over the next four years, a team from Lübeck and the Borstel Research Centre, led by Prof. Dr Alexander Katalinic, Prof. Dr Christoph Lange and Dr Holger Maurer, will hold courses and a conference on lung cancer in Namibia, within the scope of an Academy for Pneumology.

In spite of good treatment prognoses, pulmonary diseases, including tuberculosis and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), are among the most common causes of death in Africa.

To kick-off the programme in January 2019, about 20 physicians and researchers from Schleswig-Holstein went to southern Africa to hold inaugural courses for emergency medical care and pulmonary diseases. This first visit was a great success: about 50 Namibian students were unbelievably eager and happy to attend the two courses.

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Prof. Dr Christoph Lange and Dr Stefanie Bendig in the classroom (Pictures: Universität zu Lübeck); Dr Rosemarie Krupar uses a microscope with students and lecturers at the Respiratory Health Academy called BREATHE at the University of Namibia in Windhoek; Kneeling in front are Carolin Oertel, Dr Janne Kandulla, Dr Barbara Kalsdorf, Dr Stefanie Bendig and Dr Rosemarie Krupar, sitting behind them are Louisa Labohm, Dr Dumitru Chesov, Dr Maria Noftz, Prof. Dr Christoph Lange, Prof. Dr Alexander Katalinic and Dr Gunar Günther (always l-r; Susanne Dox was absent)