At the 20th edition of the annual INTEREST conference, Clark Joshua Brianwong and Oratile Mokgethi presented the top oral abstracts. Here they share what the Joep Lange and Charles Boucher awards mean to them. CLARK JOSHUA BRIANWONG For the first time in the conference’s history, an early-career...
AIGHD's 2025 annual report is now available online. Read about our project and people highlights, as well as the institute's community and partnership-building efforts. You can also download a PDF version of the report....
Malnourished children suffering from diarrhoea and people at risk of recurrent tuberculosis (TB) will benefit from multimillion-euro research projects that AIGHD coordinates. Four research projects proposed by AIGHD were funded in the latest annual round of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), which...
Hearing firsthand that HIV treatment clubs are effective, policymakers from rural Tanzania agreed to investigate renewed funding for them. “It's now the time for us to think: How can we support these clubs from our own resources?” said Dr Khamis Kulemba, regional AIDS control coordinator from...
In a time of negative headlines about global health, AIGHD applauds the European Commission’s efforts to shore up the sector’s resilience worldwide. As an academic institution working at the intersection of research, implementation, and capacity strengthening in global health, we are well-positioned to offer recommendations to...
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...