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05 Mar 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 dear friend of the late Dr. Joep Lange. Charles has been a driving force in identifying knowledge gaps and providing medical education...
11 Feb 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 equality, also in the global health community. Although efforts have been made globally to engage women and girls in science, they are...
02 Feb 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 EBOLA, HIV or COVID-19, policymakers want to act fast to save the life and safeguard the health of the population, but...
29 Jan 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 20th of January 2021, in a room with colleagues of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington DC. Her thesis, entitled...
25 Jan Jacquie Oliwa successfully defends thesis about TB diagnosis in children in Kenya
On January 19, 2021, Jacquie Oliwa presented her thesis “Unmasking The Hidden Epidemic – The process of theory-guided intervention design to improve case detection of tuberculosis (TB) in hospitalized children in Kenya” on livestream from Kenya. Jacquie, who has visited Amsterdam every year during her...
15 Jan Successful kickoff meeting launches international Stool4TB project
Earlier this week, Stool4TB, a large international project which aims to evaluate a new stool-based test for diagnosis of tuberculosis in children and people living with HIV, held its 3-day kick-off virtual meeting. This 4-year project is funded by the European & Developing Countries Clinical...
05 Jan Professor Eileen Moyer; at the intersection of Medical Anthropology & Climate change
In recent years, Eileen Moyer has been increasingly confronted with environmental issues in her research in urban Africa. Examples include flash flooding that makes it impossible to reach research sites, social unrest in urban areas where people are required to pay for scarce water, and...
18 Dec Dr. Joseph Baruch Baluku from Uganda wins the Joep Lange Award
The abstract “It was totally unexpected” – Dr. Joseph Baruch Baluku was both excited and shocked when he was awarded the Joep Lange Award at the INTEREST2020 conference earlier this month. The award will cover Joseph’s next year’s INTEREST registration costs and travel costs. It...