The European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health 2023
The 13th edition of ECTMIH was hosted in Utrecht, The Netherlands. AIGHD Executive Director Anna Vassall and EGHRIN Chair Antoni Plasència hosted the morning plenary session which tackled the EU's new Global Health Strategy, discussing its implications for research and project work.
Horizon and Global Health ECDTP3 Programmes in the Spotlight
Dr. Jan Paehler, a member of the European Commission (EC), presented the progress of the Horizon and EDCTP3 programmes since their inception. With a sizeable 1.6 Billion Euro budget shared across these programmes, researchers all over the world were curious about how these budgets were intended to be spend over the duration of the programme. Dr. Kerstin Klipstein (UMC Utrecht), Dr. Constance Assahou-Luty (WHO Africa), Prof. Irene Akua Agyepong (University of Ghana), and Lisa Goerlitz (DSW) all joined Dr. Paehler, Prof. Vassall, and Prof. Plasència on stage to discuss the EU's new Global Health Strategy including new ideas surrounding proposal funding and acceptance by the EC.
Dutch Global Health Hub
The Dutch Global Health Hub was launched on 28 September 2023. AIGHD, a signatory party together with 20 other organizations, signed the Global Health Pact to take our commitment to bettering public health worldwide one step further.
Global Health Knowledge Institutes Network
Locations:
- Aruba
- Curaçao
- The Netherlands
Date: 21 April 2023
Global Health Knowledge Institutes Network
The Global Health Knowledge Network is a collaborative group from The Netherlands, Curaçao, and Aruba. AIGHD hosts the Secretariat of the knowledge network and coordinates with other universities and institutions to develop new priorities and strategically inform The Netherlands' work in Global Health.