Parttime (24 hours per week) – based in Amsterdam The position The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) is seeking a candidate for the position of Junior Project Manager. The Junior Project Manager is responsible for supporting the implementation and monitoring progress of projects and programs,...
A recent publication on a completed AIGHD project recommends improvements for maternal and child health in low- and middle- income countries. The SOCIALAB project, aimed at identifying the barriers preventing the uptake of laboratory screening test by pregnant women visiting antenatal care services in Senegal. The...
The International Day for Women and Girls in Science is celebrated each year on February 11 and is an opportunity to promote full and equal access to, and participation in, science for women and girls across the globe. Established in 2015 by the UN, this...
Former AIGHD PhD-student and Junior Researcher, Heleen Nelissen, co-authored a recently published article on healthcare-seeking behavior of insured and uninsured individuals in rural Nigeria. Associate professor Wendy Janssens and assistant professor Anja van’t Hoog of AIGHD were also co-authors of this publication. Year-long weekly financial...
After years of dedicated research and hard work, Dr. Elske Hoornenborg successfully defended her dissertation in the Aula of the University of Amsterdam, in the Oude Lutherse Kerk in Amsterdam last Wednesday morning. Her PhD focused on HIV and PrEP in the Netherlands, but her...
On the final day of the global health elective course, Future Medicine, first- and second-year masters students presented their solutions to problems in the Ghanaian medical supply chain using innovative technology. Three groups of students offered suggestions for ways to enhance pharmaceutical manufacturing, distribution, and...
Curious, focused and thoughtful: those are all words that describe AIGHD Chairman Prof. Frank Cobelens. He has worked at the organization since its inception in 2009, and seen it evolve from a small research group into a fully-fledged interdisciplinary institute. The institute was established by Prof....
An opportunity to attend a course in Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) of health programs changed the course of Nwanneka Okere’s career. The PhD candidate enrolled in the course while working as a pharmacist on a HIV project at Doctor’s without Borders (MSF) in her home...
After 4 years of cutting-edge research, work and analyses, Seth Inzaule successfully defended his thesis on November 12. The defense took place at the University of Amsterdam’s Agnietenkapel. At a scientific symposium held in his honor, and in honor of his co-PhD candidate Cissy Kityo, Seth...
A chance encounter inspired a career path for Associate Prof. Wendy Janssens. While traveling through South America in the late 1990s, she and her husband stayed in a hut with a local family in the Andes. There, she met a young couple her age who told...