The annual INTEREST Conference is already making history – and it’s still months away. A record 613 abstracts were submitted through the open call, a 60% increase from last year. The HIV-focused conference takes place May 14-17 and for the first time, Ghana is the host...
It is with great sadness that the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development shares news about the passing of our colleague Anna van Luijn. Anna was our counterpart at the Athena Institute and was responsible for coordinating many MPA internships that took (and continue to...
Pharmaceutical concentration in the world’s freshwater sources have reached the point of potentially causing damaging ecological effects, according to a study published today in Environmental Research Letters. Researchers on the study say levels of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin have increased significantly over the past 20 years and...
A recently completed project took a unique approach to researching an important component of antimicrobial resistance. The VIBRE project's goal was to better understand the extent of antibiotic usage and carriage of antibiotic resistant bacteria in poultry, as well as how that contributes to the larger antimicrobial...
Learn from the past to plan for the future. That’s exactly what 10 second-year Bachelor of Medicine students did this week. The future physicians met with a group of their peers who were the first cohort of the Global Health in Context: Sri Lanka elective course last...
A team of researchers are seeking to better understand and treat a rare neurological disease using a new approach. Nodding Syndrome (NS) is an unexplained neurological illness reported in Uganda, South Sudan and Tanzania and mainly affects children for the first time when they are between...