Research for a master’s internship at AIGHD has just appeared in the venerable eClinicalMedicine, one of The Lancet’s Discovery Science journals. First author Tessa Haverkate charted the environmental and demographic risk factors for contracting tuberculosis (TB) in seven African countries. She found that latitude, urban settings, and...
How can the world find its way back to a sustainable and just future for global health? In November, four eminent scholars set out their perspectives on how progress might be reclaimed at the annual Joep Lange Chairs and Fellows symposium in Amsterdam. “From vertical success...
The recommendations call on researchers, authorities and funders to ensure consistent protocols, robust infrastructure, and flexible ethical and funding mechanisms. Longitudinal cohort studies, which track individuals over time, have proven invaluable for understanding disease progression, identifying risk factors, and evaluating interventions such as vaccines. During the...
Mathematics was her “go to” subject at school, muses biostatistician Mildred Pepukai, “because you don't have to spell anything”. Her aptitude for numbers has taken Mildred far in life: first from collecting data in the field to analysing it; from a bachelor’s degree in applied science...
At the 19th INTEREST conference in Windhoek, Namibia, Patane Shilabye from South Africa and Uganda’s Clark Joshua Brianwong took home the prestigious Joep Lange and Charles Bouchers awards for high-scoring scientific abstracts submitted by African early-career researchers. Here, they talk about why they study what...
The 2025 Joep Lange Chair & Fellows Symposium will take place on 12 November at De Balie in Amsterdam. Hosted by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development and Joep Lange Institute, this annual event features leading practitioners and thinkers reflecting on a theme...
Research completed under AIGHD supervision demonstrates that simultaneously screening for both active and dormant TB infection could save lives and curtail infection rates, especially among migrants from TB high burden countries. Dr Dominik Zenner conducted the study with a team of researchers as part of his...
This article was written originally in Dutch. You can find the Dutch version below the English text. On 24 March 1882, German physician Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). Since 1982, this date has been declared World Tuberculosis Day, a day...
“My mother would be in better health if this technology were available at the time,” shared Sophia Shanko, a young and bold biotech CEO leading ShanX (SXM, EIN) into the future of antimicrobial diagnostics. What began as a small team located in the towering buildings...
Applications for 2025's HIV Research Trust Scholarship is finally open! The closing date of the scholarship's application portal will be on 11:00 BST on 2 April 2025 so make sure to submit your files before then! Scholarships are for early- to mid-career researchers in resource-limited settings...