The Year Ahead
In 2025, AIGHD will streamline its operational set-up to ensure its future viability. Working with our partners globally in sustainable and equitable partnerships, we will continue to provide an environment where global health researchers from diverse perspectives and disciplines can interact and develop new ideas and projects to serve our greater goal: equal opportunities for health for all.
Ensuring a sustainable financial future for AIGHD will safeguard the institute's core offerings and values. These include running our Fellows programme, facilitating interdisciplinary research and projects in sustainable partnerships, providing PhD development and support, and most importantly, contributing to global health equity.
AIGHD will initiate formal discussions to assess the feasibility and potential mutual benefits of transferring its operations to the Amsterdam UMC. Called "Moving Closer", this joint project between AIGHD, the Amsterdam UMC, and Amsterdam UMC Research B.V. aims to stabilize AIGHD's finances for long-term growth.
AIGHD expects to operate at our usual capacity for the whole of 2025. All current projects will continue to be expertly managed by our capable project management team, supported by the operational team.
Our business development team will share and support new grant opportunities throughout our Fellows network, emphasising new and emerging topics such as climate and health, non-communicable diseases, and implementation research. Naturally, our infectious diseases portfolio will continue to receive prominence and alignment with national and EU global health priorities.
Continuing to build a new generation of scientists
AIGHD will maintain its capacity to onboard new PhDs and researchers to support our projects. The AIGHD's PhD Fellow Network will strengthen its activities, providing a base for all PhD Fellows based in the Netherlands or elsewhere with our partner institutions. Intending to build a new generation of scientists who become leaders in their field, AIGHD will endeavour to expand our cross-disciplinary work and further develop our broad and substantial expertise.
An exciting development is the participation of the Infectious Diseases Institute of Uganda in our Fellows events, providing us with fresh perspectives from researchers and clinicians actively working on the African continent. We will continue our co-operation with other institutions in the Netherlands and Europe to ensure global health remains on the policy and research agenda.
In 2025, AIGHD will also work to formalize our relationships with key institutions in low- and middle-income countries to build long-lasting and sustainable partnerships across both research and education.