Choose to challenge: social media protests, the new way forward for feminist activists?
March 8th is celebrated every year globally as International Women’s Day. It is a focal point in the movement for women’s rights and...
08 March, 2021
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In Memoriam: Charles Boucher
It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Dr. Charles Boucher, one of the founders of the INTEREST conference and...
05 March, 2021
Fair distribution of Covid-19 vaccines: Who is responsible?
The race to produce COVID-19 vaccines is well underway as they first began appearing on the market at the end of 2020. This...
05 March, 2021
Dr. Michuki Maina, research pediatrician from Kenya successfully defends PhD thesis
On February 24th, Dr. Michuki Maina presented his thesis titled “Infection prevention and control and antibiotic stewardship: two sides of the same coin...
26 February, 2021
Boas van der Putten discovers new bacterial species
Discovering a new species includes much more work than one may think. It is not only about a identifying a full genome or...
22 February, 2021
Educating the next global health leaders; a research master’s degree at Vrije Universiteit powered by AIGHD
In collaboration with AIGHD and the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers a two-year global health research master’s at the Vrije...
17 February, 2021
An international day to honour women and girls in Science: a story featuring Dr. Catherine Hankins
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals set out by the United Nations (UN), the world stage must continue to promote science and gender...
11 February, 2021
New IMPALA project will develop a durable, affordable monitoring system for hospitalized children in low-resource settings
Every year, more than three million children in low-resource settings die due to constraints in healthcare systems. These constraints impede widespread supply of...
09 February, 2021
Pushing AIGHD’s interdisciplinarity one step further; introducing Health Law with Associate Professor. Anniek de Ruijter
A border does not stop disease transmission “Disease and health risks do not stop at our national borders.” In public health emergencies, whether it’s...
02 February, 2021
Ornella Sortino awarded doctorate after successful PhD defense: “I would do it all over again!”
Although a big gathering in Amsterdam with people from all over the world was planned, Ornella Sortino defended her thesis online on the...
29 January, 2021