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...
Genomic epidemiology for surveillance and control of poverty-related and emerging/re-emerging infections in sub-Saharan Africa...
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...
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...
Just last month, PhD Fellow for the AGEhIV Cohort Study, Myrthe Verburgh, had a paper accepted into the Journal of Infectious Diseases on SARS-CoV-2 incidence in the AGEhIV Cohort. The study concluded that there was a similar risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among both HIV-positive and...
