On the final day of the global health elective course, Future Medicine, first- and second-year masters students presented their solutions to problems in the Ghanaian medical supply chain using innovative technology. Three groups of students offered suggestions for ways to enhance pharmaceutical manufacturing, distribution, and...
Curious, focused and thoughtful: those are all words that describe AIGHD Chairman Prof. Frank Cobelens. He has worked at the organization since its inception in 2009, and seen it evolve from a small research group into a fully-fledged interdisciplinary institute. The institute was established by Prof....
An opportunity to attend a course in Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) of health programs changed the course of Nwanneka Okere’s career. The PhD candidate enrolled in the course while working as a pharmacist on a HIV project at Doctor’s without Borders (MSF) in her home...
After 4 years of cutting-edge research, work and analyses, Seth Inzaule successfully defended his thesis on November 12. The defense took place at the University of Amsterdam’s Agnietenkapel. At a scientific symposium held in his honor, and in honor of his co-PhD candidate Cissy Kityo, Seth...
A chance encounter inspired a career path for Associate Prof. Wendy Janssens. While traveling through South America in the late 1990s, she and her husband stayed in a hut with a local family in the Andes. There, she met a young couple her age who told...
Just how big of an issue is HIV drug resistance? Do we need to be worried? A scientific symposium held November 11 at the Amsterdam UMC, sought to answer both of these questions while highlighting the importance of HIV drug resistance from a public health point...
The good news is that for people who have access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) HIV is now a manageable chronic condition. This is a tremendous achievement that has saved numerous lives. One concern is that people living with HIV seem to contract more age-related illnesses than...
Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development. Antimicrobial resistance occurs naturally, but overuse of antimicrobials in humans and animals as well as the spread of resistant bacteria in unhygienic environments speed up AMR. AMR has been...
Students showing mastery of research during recent global health master class AIGHD provided 12 PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to present their work and get feedback from their peers and the Chairs during two master classes last week. These first ever AIGHD master classes were...
Not many people would describe bacteria as fascinating but PhD candidate Boas Van der Putten was so intrigued by them that he decided to pursue a PhD on the topic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). He met his supervisor Prof. Constance Schultsz through an internship during...