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...
A recent systematic analysis of the global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance published in The Lancet last week shows that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world, with the largest burden in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The study includes...
Partners of AMR-Global have been awarded funding to carry out a research program on antimicrobial resistance. The collaboration is co-funded by the PPP Allowance made available by Health~Holland, Top Sector Life Sciences & Health, to stimulate public-private partnerships. The program is titled “AMR-Global: Reducing inappropriate...
Just last month, PhD Fellow for the AGEhIV Cohort Study, Myrthe Verburgh, had a paper accepted into the Journal of Infectious Diseases on SARS-CoV-2 incidence in the AGEhIV Cohort. The study concluded that there was a similar risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among both HIV-positive and...