The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is the central federal institution responsible for disease control and prevention and is therefore the central federal reference institution for both applied and response-orientated research as well as for the Public Health Sector.
The tasks of the Robert Koch Institute comprise:
The identification of politically important health problems and associated scientific issues
Applied and response-orientated research to resolve these issues
The assessment of scientific results through analysis of current international developments in the respective scientific areas
Informing and the advising political decision makers and the scientific sector
Executive tasks defined by special laws, in particular with regard to protection from infection, legislation on stem cell research, and attacks using biological agents
The topical realisation and coordination of federal health reporting.

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