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05 Nov Virtual EECA INTERACT Workshop to be held on 11 November
The Eastern Europe and Central Asia INTERACT Workshop will take place next Thursday, 11 November. This is the second workshop in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region on HIV, tuberculosis (TB), hepatitis C, harm reduction and sexual and reproductive health, returning this time virtually...
25 Oct A preview of what’s to come: The 2021 Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Symposium
I remember Joep as a champion dedicated to access to quality care and related issues. He was deeply concerned with the vulnerable. What is happening today would deeply hurt him. No doubt about it. Access to vaccines is a human rights issue. Joep would have...
01 Sep The 2021 Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Symposium Announcement
The Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development and the Joep Lange Institute will host the annual Joep Lange Chairs and Fellows Program Symposium on 28 October 2021, with the timely theme of The Future of Vaccination. The Symposium will feature world-class experts in the...
28 Jul World Hepatitis Day: Lending a Helping Hand Through Community Engagement and Collaboration
July 28 is World Hepatitis Day and this year’s theme is ‘Help Can’t Wait’. In order to spread awareness of this condition, we had the opportunity to talk with Paul Zantkuijl about his projects and engagement with Hepatitis C in the Netherlands. Paul is a...
21 Jul Where is she now? Sylvia Mwanza-Kabaghe, Zambia – INTEREST 2019 Joep Lange Award Winner
Sylvia, born and raised in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, has worked in the pediatric sector for nearly her entire career. Her undergraduate degree in special education led to her first position as Child Development Officer at the Paediatric Center of Excellence, where she...
16 Jul Call for Abstracts: Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Masterclass 2021
Call for Abstracts Interdisciplinary Masterclass in Global Health and Development: The Future of vaccination 2 & 3 November 2021 Led by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development and the Joep Lange Institute Are you a PhD candidate or a Postdoctoral fellow wanting...
09 Jul Reframing Education at AIGHD: How the Pandemic Forces Innovation
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...
16 Jun Meet Prof. Kwasi Torpey: The New Scientific Chair of the 15th Annual INTEREST Conference
The INTEREST Conference, the premier scientific conference for HIV in Africa, was established by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) founder, the late Joep Lange, and the late Dr. Charles Boucher of the Academic Medical Education. Both organizations continue to co-organize the...