Students showing mastery of research during recent global health master class AIGHD provided 12 PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to present their work and get feedback from their peers and the Chairs during two master classes last week. These first ever AIGHD master classes were...
Not many people would describe bacteria as fascinating but PhD candidate Boas Van der Putten was so intrigued by them that he decided to pursue a PhD on the topic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). He met his supervisor Prof. Constance Schultsz through an internship during...
A new partnership will leverage collective expertise to impact antimicrobial resistance around the world. A letter of intent between the Dutch consortium AMR-Global and C-CAMP (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms) in India, was signed this week, marking a formal collaboration between the two groups. The...
Many years of intense work, research and analysis have paid off for Rosan van Zoest who successfully defended her thesis yesterday. Rosan first became interested in HIV while working at the OLVG hospital in Amsterdam where she encountered a young patient who suddenly lost her speech. “I...
AIGHD’s Dr. Remko van Leeuwen, Prof. Frank Cobelens and Prof. Constance Schultz have recently co-authored an opinion piece published in the British Medical Journal. The article, Where is the ‘global’ in the European Union’s Health Research and Innovation Agenda? is the result of a collaboration...
Dr. Mbazi Senkoro discovered a newfound passion for data during his PhD – and he owes it all to his time at AIGHD. He began his PhD in 2012 and as part of his research, conducted a national prevalence survey on tuberculosis (TB) in Tanzania to...