Counting two clinical trials, 15 scientific papers, and two PhD degrees (one awarded with honours), the INDIGO project had much to celebrate at its final consortium meeting in February 2026. Jointly funded by the European Commission and India’s Department of Biotechnology, INDIGO aimed to develop seasonal...
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...
Applications for 2025's HIV Research Trust Scholarship is finally open! The closing date of the scholarship's application portal will be on 11:00 BST on 2 April 2025 so make sure to submit your files before then! Scholarships are for early- to mid-career researchers in resource-limited settings...
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...
A recent systematic analysis of the global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance published in The Lancet last week shows that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world, with the largest burden in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The study includes...
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...
