AIGHD Senior Fellow, Arjen Dondorp, was awarded the Christiaan Eijkman medal in honor of his extensive research in global health, specifically in the management and eradication of falciparum malaria. Over the years, Arjen and his team have worked tirelessly to improve the care for critical...
Earlier this month, we sat down with Prof. Tobias Rinke de Wit, Director of Research PharmAccess, molecular biologist, public health specialist and Senior Fellow at AIGHD, to discuss his pioneering work in digitalizing diagnostics in Africa: ‘Connected Diagnostics’. ‘Connected Diagnostics’ refers to digitalizing rapid point-of-care diagnosis...
With millions of people constantly on the move around the globe, whether due to war, famine, or simply in search of a better life, migration has become a global reality. This phenomenon impacts many aspects of life, shapes world events, and prompts political debates. But...
On 24 June, Boas van der Putten successfully defended his PhD entitled “Using genomics to understand the global spread of Escherichia coli and antimicrobial resistance”. Boas’ interest in antimicrobial-resistant E. coli began far before his PhD journey. While writing a literature thesis alongside his supervisor, Prof....
Calling all Researchers in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region! AIGHD and AFEW International are, once again, organizing the annual INTERACT workshop on 13-14 December 2022 in Riga, Latvia. The workshop will bring together scientists, clinicians, members of civil society, and government officials to...
Call for Abstracts Interdisciplinary Masterclass in Global Health and Development: ‘Migration and Health’ Exact Dates to be Confirmed 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 Masterclass...
The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, in conjunction with the Institute for Advance Studies, held a meeting on 1 July to discuss the importance of generating vaccines against infectious diseases from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Attendees heard from experts in virology, law,...
On the 13th and 14th of June 2022, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and the European Global Health Research Institutes Network (EGHRIN) organised, together with Universitat Barcelona, a Town Hall meeting in Barcelona on global health. The meeting was entitled “Healthy people, healthy societies: an integrated approach”, and emphasised...
AIGHD PhD student has developed a new approach to detect bladder infections. Victoria Janes, a PhD student at the Department of Medical Microbiology at the Amsterdam UMC, who is supervised by AIGHD senior fellow and global health chair, Contance Schultsz, recently published a paper in...
On 29 April, Dr. Sally-ann Ohene successfully defended her thesis titled “Assessing components of TB care cascade in Ghana.” Her doctoral research aimed to investigate aspects of the Tuberculosis (TB) care pathway; including how to make use of existing structures in Ghana’s healthcare system to...