Date and theme of annual Joep Lange Chair & Fellows Symposium announced
The 2025 Joep Lange Chair & Fellows Symposium will take place on 12 November at De Balie in Amsterdam. Hosted by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development and Joep Lange Institute, this annual event features leading practitioners and thinkers reflecting on a theme…
Doctoral study identifies TB screening strategy significantly improving detection
Research completed under AIGHD supervision demonstrates that simultaneously screening for both active and dormant TB infection could save lives and curtail infection rates, especially among migrants from TB high burden countries. Dr Dominik Zenner conducted the study with a team of researchers as part of…
World TB Day 2025: Tuberculosis, an Enduring Threat
This article was written originally in Dutch. You can find the Dutch version below the English text. On 24 March 1882, German physician Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). Since 1982, this date has been declared World Tuberculosis Day, a…
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Epidemiological genetic research for pandemic preparedness using digital health tools.
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Evaluating a new stool-based QPCR for diagnosis of Tuberculosis in children and people living with HIV