Hospital monitoring in Malawi saves children’s lives, reduces costs
Tracking sick children’s vital signs with the IMPALA monitoring system saves lives, decreases illness events, and reduces expenses for patient families and the wider community. This is the conclusion of a landmark academic paper published in the BMJ Paediatrics Open journal. Researchers from the IMPALA…
Apply for our Vaccine Collaboration Grant 2027 (with AI&I and APH)
The 2027 Vaccine Collaboration Grant aims to stimulate new collaborations between researchers from AIGHD, Amsterdam institute for Immunology and Infectious diseases (AI&I) and the Global Health research program within the Amsterdam Public Health research institute (plus other societal partners), supporting early-stage research ideas that can…
African excellence in the spotlight: Young award-winners explain their TB, HIV research
At the 20th edition of the annual INTEREST conference, Clark Joshua Brianwong and Oratile Mokgethi presented the top oral abstracts. Here they share what the Joep Lange and Charles Boucher awards mean to them. CLARK JOSHUA BRIANWONG For the first time in the conference’s history,…
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EpiGen Ethiopia
Epidemiological genetic research for pandemic preparedness using digital health tools.
SPRINGS Project
Studying the effects of climate change on human health by looking at diarrhoeal disease in prone regions.
Stool4TB
Evaluating a new stool-based QPCR for diagnosis of Tuberculosis in children and people living with HIV