As a student, Professor Charles Agyemang envisioned a global health career focused on HIV. But after a discussion with his supervisor, he realized he found a new passion: migrant health. This chance conversation turned out to be the start of an extraordinary academic career, marked by...
In a time where most people are busy preparing their vacations, AIGHD’s 2019 interns were busy finalizing their master’s theses. Since March, 18 interns have been working under the supervision of AIGHD academic staff members to write and deliver their final thesis presentations. On Friday,...
AIGHD's Dr. Vanessa Harris has something to celebrate: her thesis was recognized as one of the top PhD theses of 2018 from the Amsterdam UMC. She received the honor at an annual awards session on Tuesday, June 18. She successfully defended her rotavirus thesis titled The...
A new approach to studying a common family of bacteria has earned an AIGHD researcher a grant. Kees van der Ark, microbiologist and Postdoctoral Fellow at AIGHD, was awarded a grant by the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy to study antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus suis, a...
The first guideline around self-care for sexual reproductive health and rights has been released today by the World Health Organization. AIGHD collaborated with the WHO to develop the guideline, with Prof. Anita Hardon (AIGHD Academic Staff) co-chairing the guideline development group, a global team comprised of...
The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development is one of the organizations that signed the Call to Action for awareness on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the Netherlands on June 20. Prof. Constance Schultsz, Academic Staff at AIGHD, was part of the announcement, which occurred...