World Hepatitis Day: Lending a Helping Hand Through Community Engagement and Collaboration
July 28 is World Hepatitis Day and this year’s theme is ‘Help Can’t Wait’. In order to spread awareness of this condition, we...
28 July, 2021
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Where is she now? Sylvia Mwanza-Kabaghe, Zambia – INTEREST 2019 Joep Lange Award Winner
Sylvia, born and raised in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, has worked in the pediatric sector for nearly her entire career. Her...
21 July, 2021
Call for Abstracts: Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Masterclass 2021
Call for Abstracts Interdisciplinary Masterclass in Global Health and Development: The Future of vaccination 2 & 3 November 2021 Led by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health...
16 July, 2021
Connected Diagnostics: The Mobile Future of Disease Detection, Treatment, and Health Financing
On 3 June 2021, AIGHD researcher and PharmAccess Research Director, Prof. Tobias Rinke de Wit spoke at WEON 2021―the premier Dutch epidemiological symposium....
14 July, 2021
Reframing Education at AIGHD: How the Pandemic Forces Innovation
AIGHD acknowledges that education is pivotal in global health and development, whether it pertains to building health capacity in the global south or...
09 July, 2021
Publication in Nature: The Pandemic’s Lasting Health Burden on People, Societies and Economies
After nearly a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still grappling with the overwhelming number of deaths and the...
02 July, 2021
Meet Prof. Kwasi Torpey: The New Scientific Chair of the 15th Annual INTEREST Conference
The INTEREST Conference, the premier scientific conference for HIV in Africa, was established by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD)...
16 June, 2021
World class African – European AIGHD-led consortium joins forces for revolutionary health technology to fight pediatric mortality
Every year, more than two million children in low-resource settings die due to substandard quality of care caused by constraints in healthcare systems....
31 May, 2021
The impact of INTEREST: Frackson Shaba on his 2018 Joep Lange Award Win
“My father’s passing was a turning point in my life. I figured that the only way to ever leave my village was my...
25 May, 2021
Why African migrants live longer than those who stay behind
In a recent publication titled, Epigenetic-age acceleration in the emerging burden of cardiometabolic diseases among migrant and non-migrant African populations: a population-based cross-sectional RODAM...
19 May, 2021