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Management Board
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Submitted by Christian Léonard on Thu, 10/03/2016 - 09:58The management board assists the managing director. It formulates any useful opinion relating to the functioning of Sciensano and ensures the coordination of all the services and activities.
It is composed of the managing director, the scientific directors and the directors of the support services.
Creation of the Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP)
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Submitted by Charlotte Van den Branden de Reeth on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 12:30Due to the complementarity of their respective activities, the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (IHE) and Pasteur Institute of Brabant (PIB-IPB) merged. This marked the birth of the Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP) as we know it until 2018, the year of its merger with the CODA-CERVA. Today, they form the new Belgian health institute Sciensano.
Environmental pollution
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Submitted by Daisy Tysmans on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 12:29The Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, conducted one of the first studies into the influence of the environment on public health in our country.
Birth of the IHE, ancestor of WIV-ISP
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Submitted by Daisy Tysmans on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 12:29Birth of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology bringing together the various health laboratories.
Nobel Prize
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Submitted by Charlotte Van den Branden de Reeth on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 12:27Jules Bordet, director of the Pasteur Institute of Brabant, received the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his research into immunity.
Rabies in Belgium
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Submitted by Charlotte Van den Branden de Reeth on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 10:47The Pasteur Institute of Brabant was the only institute in Belgium to carry out research on the rabies virus. Patients infected with this disease could be treated free of charge at the Institute. Following the efforts of researchers for more than 100 years, rabies in Belgium was eradicated in 2001.
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Birth of PIB-IPB, ancestor of WIV-ISP
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Submitted by Charlotte Van den Branden de Reeth on Mon, 29/02/2016 - 13:56Creation of the Pasteur Institute of Brabant.