SAVE THE DATE Migration and Health The Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Symposium Hosted by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development & the Joep Lange Institute 3 November 2022 Location TBD Amsterdam, The Netherlands With millions of people constantly on the move around the globe, whether due to war, famine,...
The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, in conjunction with the Institute for Advance Studies, held a meeting on 1 July to discuss the importance of generating vaccines against infectious diseases from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Attendees heard from experts in virology, law,...
On the 13th and 14th of June 2022, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and the European Global Health Research Institutes Network (EGHRIN) organised, together with Universitat Barcelona, a Town Hall meeting in Barcelona on global health. The meeting was entitled “Healthy people, healthy societies: an integrated approach”, and emphasised...
AIGHD PhD student has developed a new approach to detect bladder infections. Victoria Janes, a PhD student at the Department of Medical Microbiology at the Amsterdam UMC, who is supervised by AIGHD senior fellow and global health chair, Contance Schultsz, recently published a paper in...
On 29 April, Dr. Sally-ann Ohene successfully defended her thesis titled “Assessing components of TB care cascade in Ghana.” Her doctoral research aimed to investigate aspects of the Tuberculosis (TB) care pathway; including how to make use of existing structures in Ghana’s healthcare system to...
On 3 March 2022, Nwanneka Okere successfully defended her thesis “Differentiated Service Delivery in HIV Care and Treatment: An Exploration of Sustainability and Impact from Patients and Providers Perspective.” Nwanneka, who moved to the Netherlands from her home country, Nigeria at the beginning of her...