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Thanks to a Horizon Europe grant, Amsterdam UMC is set to lead a global consortium to improve policies and interventions Diarrhea is, globally, the third largest cause of death for children under 5. Contributing to more than 500,000 deaths, only pneumonia kills more children each year....

Emilie Berkhout, an AIGHD PhD Fellow, successfully defended her thesis last 7 July at the University of Amsterdam’s historic Agnietenkapel. Her thesis, entitled “Evaluation of Education Policies in Indonesia” is available on the UvA Digital Academic Repository. You can find the thesis here. A few weeks before her thesis defense, Emilie and I exchanged...

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...