Robert Koch Institute – „Protect health, research risks”
Germany’s central scientific institution for the protection from infectious diseases and health reports – combines risk research with political advice.

German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI)
DIMDI reports directly to the Federal Ministry of Health and makes information from the whole field of medicine available to the public.

The Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
One of the most important tasks of the Ministry is the reform of the healthcare system in addition to the preparation of draft bills as well as the prevention and control of diseases.

Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte, BfArM)
Authorization and registration of drugs, monitoring the safety of medicinal products as well as the risk assessment of medical devices.

German Society for Hospital Hygiene (DGKH)
Prevention and control of hospital and practice associated diseases with the focus on infection prevention, health promotion and protection of the environment.

The Verband der Universitätsklinika Deutschlands (VUD- Association of Germany’s University Clinics) was founded in 1997. It presents the interests of 33 university clinics, which offer medical top performances at 38 locations in Germany and generate an annual revenue of about 13 billion euro. The association is based in Berlin since 2006.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie (DGHM – German Association for Hygiene and Microbiology)
Support of the scientific exchange within different subareas of microbiology, inflectional immunology as well as of hygiene and the healthcare system.

Vereinigung der Hygiene-Fachkräfte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.(VHD- Association of the hygiene professionals of the German Federal Republic
Practical and scientific further education for the members and other hygiene target groups to improve hospital hygiene.

Gesellschaft für Hygiene, Umweltmedizin und Präventivmedizin (GHUP) Society of Hygiene, Environmental and Public Health Sciences
Supports hygiene, environmental medicine, preventative medicine, environmental and public health sciences as well as adjacent subjects within research, apprenticeship, training, advanced training and postgraduate training.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wundheilung und Wundbehandlung DGfW e.V. (German society for wound healing and treatment)
Support for transfer of knowledge between research and practice for the improvement of treatment of acute and chronic wounds.

Initiative Chronische Wunden e.V. (initiative chronic wounds)
Founded by physicians, caregivers, personnel of the sponsors and others engaged in the improvement of the prophylaxis and therapy of people with chronic wounds.

International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC)
Unterstützt bestehende nationale Einrichtungen für den
Infektionsschutz/-kontrolle und fördert den Aufbau neuer Einrichtungen.

International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)
Worldwide active society for the prevention and control of infectious diseases with the focus on the Third World.

World Health Organization (WHO)
Leading health authority within the United Nations.
Compiles worldwide valid norms and standards, monitors worldwide health trends.

Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network (GIDEON)
Online-platform with information to all infectious diseases. Helps the user to come to an informed decision in diagnostics and therapy.

World Future Society.
Inspiration for shaping the future with about 25,000 members in more than 80 countries.

European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) non-profit organization with the task to improve the diagnosis, therapy and prevention of infectious diseases due to the support of research and advanced training.

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Identifies, assesses and communicates current threats by infectious diseases and works closely with national health authorities.

Hospital in Europe Link for Infection Control through Surveillance (HELICS)
Prepares guidelines and control systems for the reduction and prevention of nosocomial infections and resistance to antibiotics in Europe.

Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft (DKG - German hospital association)
The DKG is the integration of umbrella organizations and national associations of hospital owners. It supports its members with the compliance of its task and on the field of the hospital sector.

Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw—information service science)
The idw wants to bring science and public into contact. The idw constitutes one of the most important platforms for scientific news within the German-speaking area in the internet. It is a non-profit-making organization with a couple of hundreds of institutions connected with the idw – universities, research institutes, foundation, academies, research enterprises, specialized societies and many more scientific institutions mostly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

G-BA – Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss (federal joint committee)
The federal joint committee is the supreme decision-making body of the conjoint self-administration of physicians, dentists, psychotherapists, hospitals and health insurances in Germany. It defines with the help of directives the catalogue of benefits by the statutory health insurances for more than 70 million insured people and regulates which services of the medical care are paid for by the statutory health insurance. In addition, the G-BA resolves health assurance measures for the ambulant and inpatient field of the healthcare system.

Institut für das Entgeldsystem im Krankenhaus InEK GmbH (Institute for the compensation system within the hospital)
The InEK GmbH as the German DRG-Institute took over the further development and maintenance of the new DRG-based compensation system from the German hospital association (DKG), the umbrella organization of the health insurances and the association of the private health insurances.

BQS Bundesgeschäftsstelle Qualitätssicherung GmbH (German national institute for quality assurance)
The BQS is a leading and independent service provider for external comparing quality assurance within the healthcare system. It visualizes quality in the healthcare system for patients and actors and it is committed to the quality improvement and therefore to patient welfare.

Bundesverband Deutscher Krankenhausapotheker (ADKA) e.V. (German society of hospital pharmacists)
The hospital pharmacy takes completely care of the pharmacotherapy of inpatients. It knows the risks of pharmacotherapy and helps the physicians, care takers and patients to minimize those risks. It knows the costs of pharmacotherapy and offers economic alternatives. It controls the pharmaceutical logistics and develops patient oriented treatment systems. It is on site for patients, physicians and medical care and helps to optimize the pharmacotherapy of each single patient.

Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften (AWMF - working group of scientific medical professional associations)
Currently the AWMF contains 152 scientific professional associations from all areas of medicine. The AWMF represents Germany in the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences CIOMS.

Medizinischer Fakultätentag der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (MFT - day of the medical faculty in the German Federal Republic)
The MFT is the conference of medical educational and research institutions by the universities belonging to the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK). Members are the 36 medical educational institutions and three host-faculties.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG – German research funding organization)
The DFG is the economy’s central, self-governing institution funding the research at universities and publicly financed research institutions within Germany. The DFG serves the economy in all its branches by the means of funding research projects and by supporting the cooperation of the researchers.

The German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat)
The German Council of Science and Humanities provides advice to the German federal government and the state governments on content and structure of the development of universities, economy and research.

HRK German Rectors‘ Conference
The HRK is the voluntary association of state and state-recognized universities and other higher education institutions in Germany. The HRK is the voice of the universities and other higher education institutions within politics and the public and it is the forum for the higher education institutions' joint opinion-forming process. It addresses all topics relating to the responsibilities of higher education institutions: Research, teaching and studies, advanced continuous education and training, knowledge and technology transfer, international cooperations and self-administration issues.

Plasmatis – Plasma plus Zelle (plasma plus cell)
Plasmatis? Plasma plus cell stands for the interdisciplinary cooperation of plasma physics and life sciences. The objective of plasmatis is the fundamental research of the interaction between physical plasma with cells and histoid. Of peticular interest is the influence of plasma to the regeneration of histoid, e.g. for the treatment of chronic wounds. Medium term those new insights will open up new therapy possibilities.

European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE)
HOPE, the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation, is an international non-profit organization, created in 1966. HOPE represents national public and private hospital associations and hospital owners, either federations of local and regional authorities or national health services. Today, HOPE is made up of 32 organizations from 26 Member States of the European Union, plus Switzerland.

American Hospital Association
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends.

The Joint Commission
An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Joint Commission accreditation and certification is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organization's commitment to meeting certain performance standards. Our Mission: To continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care organizations.

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence The National
Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health.

The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
The J. Craig Venter Institute was formed in October 2006 through the merger of the Institute for Genomic Research and The Center for the Advancement of Genomics, The J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, The Joint Technology Center, and the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives. With more than 400 scientists and staff, JCVI is a world leader in genomic research.