Hearing firsthand that HIV treatment clubs are effective, policymakers from rural Tanzania agreed to investigate renewed funding for them. “It's now the time for us to think: How can we support these clubs from our own resources?” said Dr Khamis Kulemba, regional AIDS control coordinator from...
Through its fellows’ network, AIGHD again will help shape EU health policy for a more resilient future. Senior fellow and AIGHD academic council member, Prof. Anniek de Ruijter, has been selected as a member of the newly formed Lancet Commission on the European Health Union. She...
In a time of negative headlines about global health, AIGHD applauds the European Commission’s efforts to shore up the sector’s resilience worldwide. As an academic institution working at the intersection of research, implementation, and capacity strengthening in global health, we are well-positioned to offer recommendations to...
Counting two clinical trials, 15 scientific papers, and two PhD degrees (one awarded with honours), the INDIGO project had much to celebrate at its final consortium meeting in February 2026. Jointly funded by the European Commission and India’s Department of Biotechnology, INDIGO aimed to develop seasonal...
Research for a master’s internship at AIGHD has just appeared in the venerable eClinicalMedicine, one of The Lancet’s Discovery Science journals. First author Tessa Haverkate charted the environmental and demographic risk factors for contracting tuberculosis (TB) in seven African countries. She found that latitude, urban settings, and...
How can the world find its way back to a sustainable and just future for global health? In November, four eminent scholars set out their perspectives on how progress might be reclaimed at the annual Joep Lange Chairs and Fellows symposium in Amsterdam. “From vertical success...