I remember Joep as a champion dedicated to access to quality care and related issues. He was deeply concerned with the vulnerable. What is happening today would deeply hurt him. No doubt about it. Access to vaccines is a human rights issue. Joep would have...
Next week is the 15th annual INTEREST Conference―the premier scientific conference for HIV Africa! Now is your last chance to register for this exciting event from 12-14 October. Just like the conference held in December of 2020, this year’s event will be virtual due to...
Vacature HR Adviseur Fulltime – in Amsterdam De functie Het Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) zoekt per direct een enthousiaste collega die onze organisatie kan ondersteunen. Wij bieden een interessante en brede HR functie in een internationale setting die vraagt om een flexibele, positieve en creatieve...
EGHRIN (The European Global Health Research Institutes Network) is proud to host a satellite event during the Tenth EDCTP Forum from 17-21 October 2021, where the theme will be ‘Equity in research for health’. AIGHD is the secretariat of EGHRIN and will be co-organizing the event. Global public health research...
The Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development and the Joep Lange Institute will host the annual Joep Lange Chairs and Fellows Program Symposium on 28 October 2021, with the timely theme of The Future of Vaccination. The Symposium will feature world-class experts in the...
In June, AIGHD post-doc Logan Stuck was awarded the 2021 Amsterdam Tuberculosis Center (TBC) Seed Grant for his exceptional research proposal, ranked the highest amongst those received. “It is really exciting. This is actually the first research grant I have been awarded. I’ve been involved...
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...