In collaboration with AIGHD and the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers a two-year global health research master’s at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. There are currently 50 students who follow the global health curriculum, and students are able to choose some elective...
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals set out by the United Nations (UN), the world stage must continue to promote science and gender equality, also in the global health community. Although efforts have been made globally to engage women and girls in science, they are...
Every year, more than three million children in low-resource settings die due to constraints in healthcare systems. These constraints impede widespread supply of high-quality healthcare. In low-resource hospitals, small but important changes in a child’s health can go unnoticed. Often the window of opportunity to intervene...
A border does not stop disease transmission “Disease and health risks do not stop at our national borders.” In public health emergencies, whether it’s EBOLA, HIV or COVID-19, policymakers want to act fast to save the life and safeguard the health of the population, but at...
Although a big gathering in Amsterdam with people from all over the world was planned, Ornella Sortino defended her thesis online on the 20th of January 2021, in a room with colleagues of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington DC. Her thesis, entitled...
On January 19, 2021, Jacquie Oliwa presented her thesis “Unmasking The Hidden Epidemic - The process of theory-guided intervention design to improve case detection of tuberculosis (TB) in hospitalized children in Kenya” on livestream from Kenya. Jacquie, who has visited Amsterdam every year during her...