AIGHD's Dr. Vanessa Harris has something to celebrate: her thesis was recognized as one of the top PhD theses of 2018 from the Amsterdam UMC. She received the honor at an annual awards session on Tuesday, June 18. She successfully defended her rotavirus thesis titled The...
A new approach to studying a common family of bacteria has earned an AIGHD researcher a grant. Kees van der Ark, microbiologist and Postdoctoral Fellow at AIGHD, was awarded a grant by the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy to study antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus suis, a...
The first guideline around self-care for sexual reproductive health and rights has been released today by the World Health Organization. AIGHD collaborated with the WHO to develop the guideline, with Prof. Anita Hardon (AIGHD Academic Staff) co-chairing the guideline development group, a global team comprised of...
The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development is one of the organizations that signed the Call to Action for awareness on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the Netherlands on June 20. Prof. Constance Schultsz, Academic Staff at AIGHD, was part of the announcement, which occurred...
A comprehensive paper on an innovative workplace treatment program has been published in the well-known HIV/AIDS journal Antiviral Therapy. The paper, ‘Reaching 90-90-90: outcomes of a 15-year multi-country HIV workplace programme in sub-Saharan Africa’ was published last month and highlights a joint initiative between Heineken, PharmAccess...
Social science offers a new way of looking at responses to infectious disease outbreaks, according to a recent report led by AIGHD. The report Towards People-Centred Epidemic Preparedness & Response: From Knowledge To Action, was produced as part of the GAPS project and seeks to improve...
When it comes to improved health care outcomes, the poor experience bigger improvements compared to wealthier populations, according to a recent economics study. Published in the Journal of Development Studies and co-authored by former AIGHD researcher Katalin Buzasi as part of the Compare2Care project, the research...
Site visits to hospitals, excursions to laboratories, and student-led teaching methods, these are just a few of the things that make the annual TBnet Academy unique. Each year, the TBnet Academy brings together around 20 young clinicians and researchers to attend a three-day intensive course about...
A new public-private partnership is working to tackle one of the biggest global health threats. AMR-Global is a recently launched public private partnership (PPP) that seeks to establish relationships with academia and organizations within and outside the Netherlands to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) around the world. AMR...
It’s a year of firsts for the 13th annual INTEREST Conference. It’s the first time the conference has received more than 600 abstract submissions. It’s the first time this HIV-focused scientific event is being held in Accra, Ghana. And it’s the first time that Journalist Scholars Training is...