Matthijs Botman completed his medical degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) followed by his first international experience during internships in Peru (pediatrics) and Malawi (surgical training of clinical officers). He then specialized as a global health doctor following the unique Dutch postgraduate training program...
Prof. Mark Jordans is a child psychologist and professor whose research interests are the development, implementation, and evaluation of psychosocial and mental health care systems in low and middle-income countries. More specifically, his research centers on the interplay between research and intervention development aimed at...
Prof. dr. Mark Hoogendoorn’s research focuses on machine learning and its applications, the latter primarily applied in the domain of health and wellbeing. His research ranges from more fundamental machine learning research (including efficiency, explainability, safety, incorporating domain knowledge, and hybrid intelligence) to application-driven research...
Judith Bosmans’ (PhD) research focusses on the conduct of applied cost-effectiveness studies and the development of new methods for cost-effectiveness studies. She has received numerous research grants, including a highly prestigious Vidi grant (2018) to further develop her research group. Her Vidi project “Time to...
Job Calis is a pediatric intensivist attached to the Amsterdam UMC and KUHeS, Blantyre Malawi. Besides his clinical appointment, he is a researcher at AIGHD and the Amsterdam Center for Global Child Health. His research predominantly concerns several topics affecting the care of critically ill...
Prof. Ingo Venzke’s main research interests lie in international economic law and different dimensions of sustainability. He is currently part of the first cohort of fellows at The New Institute, partaking in a program that addresses the most urgent questions of our time at the...
Linda Musariri is an interdisciplinary scientific researcher whose research broadly focuses on migration, gender, violence, climate change, and the role of development interventions in shaping these worlds in South Africa. Having completed her PhD in Anthropology at the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR),...
Dr. Else Vogel is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body at the University of Amsterdam (UvA); the co-editor of The Imposter as Social Theory – Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats, and Charlatans (Bristol University Press); and serves on the editorial board...
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Chris Elbers is an economist whose research focus is on impact evaluation, measurement and small-area estimation of poverty and inequality, and the economics of growth and risk. He is currently a member of the board of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health...
Prof. Charles Agyemang’s research is focused on ethnic inequalities in health with a major focus on cardiovascular diseases; and NCDs in low- and middle-income countries. In particular, he focuses on gaining insights into how migration and the contexts in which migrants and ethnic minority groups...