March 8th is celebrated every year globally as International Women’s Day. It is a focal point in the movement for women’s rights and this year’s theme is “Choose to Challenge”. This theme aims to push individuals to call out gender biases and inequalities. At the...
It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Dr. Charles Boucher, one of the founders of the INTEREST conference and dear friend of the late Dr. Joep Lange. Charles has been a driving force in identifying knowledge gaps and providing medical education for...
The race to produce COVID-19 vaccines is well underway as they first began appearing on the market at the end of 2020. This accomplishment is the result of unprecedented public-private collaborations and significant investment of public funding in the private development of vaccines and therapeutics....
On February 24th, Dr. Michuki Maina presented his thesis titled “Infection prevention and control and antibiotic stewardship: two sides of the same coin in the prevention of antimicrobial resistance” before his promotors (Prof. Dr. Constance Schultz and Prof. Dr. English) and co-promotors (Dr. Jacob McKnight...
Discovering a new species includes much more work than one may think. It is not only about a identifying a full genome or establishing a name for the species. Officially recognizing a new bacterial species takes money, time, and perseverance. In the world of microbiology, making...
In collaboration with AIGHD and the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers a two-year global health research master’s at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. There are currently 50 students who follow the global health curriculum, and students are able to choose some elective...
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals set out by the United Nations (UN), the world stage must continue to promote science and gender equality, also in the global health community. Although efforts have been made globally to engage women and girls in science, they are...
Every year, more than three million children in low-resource settings die due to constraints in healthcare systems. These constraints impede widespread supply of high-quality healthcare. In low-resource hospitals, small but important changes in a child’s health can go unnoticed. Often the window of opportunity to intervene...
A border does not stop disease transmission “Disease and health risks do not stop at our national borders.” In public health emergencies, whether it’s EBOLA, HIV or COVID-19, policymakers want to act fast to save the life and safeguard the health of the population, but at...
Although a big gathering in Amsterdam with people from all over the world was planned, Ornella Sortino defended her thesis online on the 20th of January 2021, in a room with colleagues of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington DC. Her thesis, entitled...