The annual Product Development Partnership (PDP) meeting, hosted by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, took place on May 23, 2018 in Leiden. The meeting brings together key private and public partners to discuss health themes. This year’s meeting focused...
A new course seeks to inspire the next generation of physicians by providing them with a unique global health experience. Ten Bachelor of Medicine students from the Amsterdam Medical Centre (AMC), along with students from Duke University and the University of Ruhuna, headed to Sri Lanka...
An annual conference has only just begun and it has already made history. More than 700 attendees are expected to attend INTEREST, an annual HIV-focused conference in Kigali, Rwanda which kicks off today. It is the largest crowd ever - previous years have seen between 400...
Newfound knowledge of tuberculosis, the opportunity to network with both peers and leading experts and a different perspective to approaching her work. Marjan Molemans, a junior researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), is taking all of this - and more -...
Members of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) team were recently in Tanzania to launch a unique project that seeks to improve drug safety in Africa. PhArmacoVIgilance Africa (PAVIA) held its official kick off activities the first week of May in Dar es...
AIGHD in collaboration with the Dutch government and partners in the HIP project, is organizing an innovative mission called ‘Affordable vaccine development & technology’. Pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions will join AIGHD and FlandersBio in visiting New Delhi and Hydrabad, India for a series of...
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has announced plans to award five Delft Global Scholarships to outstanding female students from sub-Saharan Africa in 2018. The scholarships have been made possible by a donation to the Delft University Fund by Booking.com. Each scholarship will cover the full cost of a...
Together with AHTI and other partner institutes, AIGHD co-hosted the 4th edition of the 'Internship Fair' on November 7, 2017. The annual event is designed to provide students from a range of academic backgrounds with professional networking and internship opportunities. Researchers from AIGHD and partner organizations...
Simple effective tools to monitor the long treatment of tuberculosis (TB) are lacking. Easily measured host derived biomarkers have been identified but need to be validated in larger studies and different population groups. Here we investigate the early response in IP-10 levels (between day 0...
Official presentation of World Development Report 2018 at VU University When and where: November 8th 2017, 10-12u. Kerkzaal VU Main building, 16th floor. Why is education in a global crisis? Why do so many children leave school without basic literacy and numeracy skills? Could the answer lie in stricter...