July 28 is World Hepatitis Day and this year’s theme is ‘Help Can’t Wait’. In order to spread awareness of this condition, we had the opportunity to talk with Paul Zantkuijl about his projects and engagement with Hepatitis C in the Netherlands. Paul is a...
Call for Abstracts Interdisciplinary Masterclass in Global Health and Development: The Future of vaccination 2 & 3 November 2021 Led by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development and the Joep Lange Institute Are you a PhD candidate or a Postdoctoral fellow wanting to share your insights at a...
On 3 June 2021, AIGHD researcher and PharmAccess Research Director, Prof. Tobias Rinke de Wit spoke at WEON 2021―the premier Dutch epidemiological symposium. This conference, held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, had the timely theme of the influence of the World Wide Web on...
AIGHD acknowledges that education is pivotal in global health and development, whether it pertains to building health capacity in the global south or training a new generation of researchers here in the Netherlands. AIGHD’s educational ethos―extending from the Research Master’s in Global Health program at...
After nearly a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still grappling with the overwhelming number of deaths and the long-term harmful effects of the disease. In order to best understand the lasting consequences of COVID-19 on the health care system, we...
The INTEREST Conference, the premier scientific conference for HIV in Africa, was established by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) founder, the late Joep Lange, and the late Dr. Charles Boucher of the Academic Medical Education. Both organizations continue to co-organize the...
Vacature Secretaresse Parttime (16 uur per week) De functie Het Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) zoekt per direct een vrolijke collega die onze organisatie op secretarieel gebied kan ondersteunen. Wij bieden een interessante functie in secretariële ondersteuning in een internationale setting die vraagt om een flexibele,...
Every year, more than two million children in low-resource settings die due to substandard quality of care caused by constraints in healthcare systems. Shortage of staff and lack of adequate equipment lead to millions of children dying from conditions that are treatable at low costs. It...
“My father’s passing was a turning point in my life. I figured that the only way to ever leave my village was my education: it was my get-away. From that point onwards, I worked very hard to fulfill my dream of going to university.” Frackson Shaba...
In a recent publication titled, Epigenetic-age acceleration in the emerging burden of cardiometabolic diseases among migrant and non-migrant African populations: a population-based cross-sectional RODAM substudy, PhD Student at AIGHD Dr. Felix Chilunga and colleagues explore the role of biological ageing in the emerging burden of cardiometabolic diseases...