The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, in conjunction with the Institute for Advance Studies, held a meeting on 1 July to discuss the importance of generating vaccines against infectious diseases from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Attendees heard from experts in virology, law,...
On the 13th and 14th of June 2022, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and the European Global Health Research Institutes Network (EGHRIN) organised, together with Universitat Barcelona, a Town Hall meeting in Barcelona on global health. The meeting was entitled “Healthy people, healthy societies: an integrated approach”, and emphasised...
AIGHD PhD student has developed a new approach to detect bladder infections. Victoria Janes, a PhD student at the Department of Medical Microbiology at the Amsterdam UMC, who is supervised by AIGHD senior fellow and global health chair, Contance Schultsz, recently published a paper in...
On 29 April, Dr. Sally-ann Ohene successfully defended her thesis titled “Assessing components of TB care cascade in Ghana.” Her doctoral research aimed to investigate aspects of the Tuberculosis (TB) care pathway; including how to make use of existing structures in Ghana’s healthcare system to...
On 3 March 2022, Nwanneka Okere successfully defended her thesis “Differentiated Service Delivery in HIV Care and Treatment: An Exploration of Sustainability and Impact from Patients and Providers Perspective.” Nwanneka, who moved to the Netherlands from her home country, Nigeria at the beginning of her...
“The driving force behind the INTEREST Conference is to encourage young scientists in our region to become bold and continue with their scientific career,” said Dr. Elly Katabira, Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine, Makerere University DATE, KAMPALA: 5th May 2022 The International Conference on...
The Advisory Council on International Affairs recently proposed a global health strategy for the Netherlands, “The government has announced a Dutch global health strategy in the coalition agreement. This is an important step because the alarming experiences with the COVID pandemic and global inequalities in access...
INTEREST 2022 is just around the corner and AIGHD and Virology Education are gearing up for the first in-person INTEREST in three years. Here are some things you need to know about the event this coming May 10-13. INTEREST will be hybrid this year, so you...
Katrina Perehudoff, senior research fellow and co-director of the Law Centre for Health and Life, receives Veni-funding from the NWO Talent Programme for her project about the EU’s role in global access to medicines. With this funding she will conduct independent research on this topic...
For Sebastiaan Verboeket, perseverance and staying true to his passions are the common threads that have weaved his story and led him to different positions within the health field. The most recent path has led him to obtain his PhD in medicine, titled “Disentangling Health...