Emilie Berkhout, an AIGHD PhD Fellow, successfully defended her thesis last 7 July at the University of Amsterdam’s historic Agnietenkapel. Her thesis, entitled “Evaluation of Education Policies in Indonesia” is available on the UvA Digital Academic Repository. You can find the thesis here. A few weeks before her thesis defense, Emilie and I exchanged...
“I had the pleasure of witnessing a well-oiled machine of a South-North Collaboration that is ready to co-implement the EpiGen Ethiopia project.” – Dr. Jean-Marie Vianney Habarugira, Senior Scientific Officer at Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking. EpiGen Ethiopia is a project focused on developing Ethiopia’s capacity...
This year, the International Conference on HIV Treatment, Pathogenesis, and Prevention Research in Resource-Limited Settings (INTEREST) was held in Maputo, Mozambique last 9th to 12th of May. Since its inception in 2007, INTEREST has evolved into a leading and abstract-driven scientific conference with annual meetings...
When COVID-19 became a pandemic, it unearthed deep uncertainties surrounding the strength of our social systems and the ways in which we respond to biological threats like viruses and bacteria. In the time since, we’ve shifted our understanding of epidemics and are continually finding more...
A success for Dutch public-private partnership AMR-Global: Two Dutch Topsectors join forces to fund the GLORIA program AMR-Global, a Dutch public-private partnership bringing together experts in science, business, policy, and society to fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR), has successfully obtained funding for its full GLORIA...
On 6 December, the SoNAR-Global project was awarded the Etoiles de l'Europe Award. This project is supported by AIGHD researchers Chris Pell, Danny de Vries, Luisa Fernanda Toro Alzate and Karlijn Hofstraat. The Etoiles de l’Europe Award honors coordinators of European projects for research and innovation...
The H-TEAM’s Saskia J. Bogers and colleagues published a paper on improving indicator-condition guided testing for HIV in the hospital setting in Lancet Regional Health Europe. For Amsterdam to reach its goal of zero new HIV infections by 2026, it is vital that all HIV testing...
Last week, 2-3 November, AIGHD representatives Sujan Katuwal and Tobias Rinke de Wit participated in the official kick-off meeting in Nairobi, Kenya of ‘DI-DIDA’: Digital Innovations and Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases in Africa. AIGHD is a Consortium Member, providing scientific support to this 5-year project,...
The INDIGO project, coordinated by AIGHD, has begun its phase 1 trial of a novel low-dose influenza vaccine that combines 1/5th of a dose of a licensed influenza vaccine with a new adjuvant, an ingredient used in several vaccines to help create a stronger immune...
The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development together with the Law Centre for Health and Life, will lead a new research project on the translation of new Coronavirus variants of concern into regulatory and policy routes for pandemic preparedness more generally. This project is part...