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Charlie Chaluma Luchen (he/him; AIGHD PhD Fellow and CIDRZ Researcher) recently published a systematic review of the effects of antibiotic children-under-five residing in Low- and Middle-income countries (LMICs). Link to Charlie’s article on PLOS Medicine.   The serendipitous discovery of penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic, and the...

Emilie Berkhout, an AIGHD PhD Fellow, successfully defended her thesis last 7 July at the University of Amsterdam’s historic Agnietenkapel. Her thesis, entitled “Evaluation of Education Policies in Indonesia” is available on the UvA Digital Academic Repository. You can find the thesis here. A few weeks before her thesis defense, Emilie and I exchanged...

“I had the pleasure of witnessing a well-oiled machine of a South-North Collaboration that is ready to co-implement the EpiGen Ethiopia project.” – Dr. Jean-Marie Vianney Habarugira, Senior Scientific Officer at Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking.    EpiGen Ethiopia is a project focused on developing Ethiopia’s capacity...

This year, the International Conference on HIV Treatment, Pathogenesis, and Prevention Research in Resource-Limited Settings (INTEREST) was held in Maputo, Mozambique last 9th to 12th of May. Since its inception in 2007, INTEREST has evolved into a leading and abstract-driven scientific conference with annual meetings...

When COVID-19 became a pandemic, it unearthed deep uncertainties surrounding the strength of our social systems and the ways in which we respond to biological threats like viruses and bacteria. In the time since, we’ve shifted our understanding of epidemics and are continually finding more...