Dr Erik Beune is an assistant professor at the Amsterdam UMC in the department of public and occupational health. Trained in interdisciplinary social science (cum laude) and physiotherapy, he obtained his PhD on “Culturally appropriate hypertension care among African origin populations in the Netherlands”. His...
Dr. Esther Miedema is a senior lecturer in the MSc International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands, and director of the UvA/AISSR centre Social Sciences for Global Health (SSGH). She obtained her doctorate from the Institute of Education, University College London, in...
Dr. Carla Rodrigues is a social scientist with a background in medical sociology and anthropology. She is a researcher in the department of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and an honorary research associate at Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol. Over the past two decades,...
Nafis Hasan is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology in the Health, Care and Body group at the University of Amsterdam. He is appointed under the Sectorplan Human Factors in New Technologies. Currently, he is working on a new research project on digital...
Fayette Klaassen is a postdoctoral researcher at AIGHD. She currently works on modeling the effects of climate change on the TB disease burden in rural Uganda and Kenya, specifically evaluating the effects of nutrition and healthcare access. She previously worked on modeling the Covid-19 incidence...
Tanja Ahlin is an anthropologist of health and technology and a science and technology studies (STS) scholar. As a Research Fellow at Leiden University, awarded a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), she is investigating technology acceptance and resistance through the case of animal-shaped social robots...
Zongtian Guo is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Healthcare-AI group. He earned his PhD in geography from Trinity College Dublin, funded by the Science Foundation Ireland through the ADVANCE-CRT programme. He also holds an MRes in human...
Mahsa Shabani is an associate professor in health privacy law at the University of Amsterdam and Ghent University. Her research interests revolve around topics of health privacy, data sharing, biomedical research policy, data ethics and ELSI genomics. She is a collaborator and ethics/regulatory advisor to...
Dr Megan Carey is an infectious disease epidemiologist with extensive experience developing evidence-based vaccination policy and translating genomic and epidemiological evidence into public health decision-making. She will shortly begin a Wellcome Early Career Award fellowship at AIGHD, where her research will examine how typhoid conjugate...
Dr. Giulia Sinatti is a social scientist and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her work combines research-led, people-centred approaches with a commitment to innovation across different fields, including health, international development, and migration. Giulia’s core interest lies in how...