03 Oct Stichting HIV Monitoring newsletter
Link to SHM 2016 autumn newsletter...
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06 Sep September 23, 2016 Global Health kick-off meeting
Leading Health & Life Science Research in Amsterdam Amsterdam Research brings together opinion leading academic research in the field of Health & Life Sciences developed in the Amsterdam region. In doing so - and on the authority of the two medical centers and the two universities...
02 Sep Frank Cobelens, professor of Global Health
Prof. F.G.J. Cobelens (1959) has been appointed professor of Global Health at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA). Frank Cobelens is an epidemiologist specialised in infectious diseases, particularly in resource-poor countries. His research primarily centres on tuberculosis (TB), currently the world’s deadliest infectious disease....
25 Aug 27 September 2016 Global Health Symposium – Refugee Care
By the end of 2015 65,3 million people left their homes in effort to flee war and violence. Never has the world faced this many refugees. The devastating situation in Syria, causing 4,9 million people to flee their country in search for a safer place...
26 Jul Dutch men and Latvian women tallest in world according to 100-year global height study
Dutch men and Latvian women are the tallest on the planet, according to the largest ever study of height around the world. The research, led by scientists from Imperial College London and using data from most countries in the world, tracked height among young adult men...
15 Jun The Kwara State Health Insurance program wins the 2016 FT/IFC Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Sustainable Development: Maternal & Infant Health
This was presented during an FT/IFC award ceremony in London on Thursday, 9th June 2016. The FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards are presented by the Financial Times (FT) and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group and the largest global development institution focused...