Today, March 8th is celebrated globally as International Women’s Day. It is a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. This day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality in areas where it has not yet been achieved....
AIGHD Director, Prof. Frank Cobelens, and colleagues publish review in the Lancet Infectious Disease insisting on the acceleration of research and development for a vaccine against Tuberculosis. For centuries, tuberculosis (TB) has infected 10 million people annually and been the leading cause of death around...
The PAVIA project, led by Prof. Frank Cobelens, was recently featured in a publication of the Uppsala Reports highlighting the evolution of the project since its beginning within the Kingdom of Eswatini. Funded by the European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), PAVIA focuses on improving...
AIGHD research fellow, Tobias Rinke de Wit, participated in an event 22 February on how evolutionary medicine helps explain regional differences in pandemic dynamics: immunity, symbiosis, and COVID-19. Data has been mounting for more than 50 years pointing toward the importance of “complex eukaryotic symbionts” in...
Paul Farmer was an incredibly kind and caring figure in the global health world and focused on delivering quality healthcare in areas with limited access to medical resources. He was a renowned medical anthropologist and physician who will be remembered as a global health champion...
A new study looking at the presence of pharmaceuticals in the world’s rivers found concentrations at potentially toxic levels in more than a quarter of the locations studied. The new study looked at 258 rivers across the globe, including the Thames in London and the Amazon...