Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development

A healthy climate for a healthy world! The World Health Organization recently published a special report on climate change and health, bringing the two together as key requisites to building a healthier future for all of us. The SPRINGS project is a great example of how climate change and health are deeply interconnected. Give their website a look! https://lnkd.in/edRfTThq

Our last post for #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek! In order for us to shift our relationship with AMR, we need to take a look into our own health systems to understand prevailing health inequities such as access to antimicrobials. These are life-saving drugs but manufacturing and accessibility remain an issue for many low-resource settings. A just transition is required to tackle AMR! #WAAW2024 #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek #AMR #JustTransitions #EducateAdvocateActNow

AIGHD and the European Global Health Research Institutes Network (EGHRIN) are co-hosting a free webinar on the EU's recent reforms in pharmaceutical legislations. We want to take a look at how these reforms will impact access and availability of medicines as well as how patients and patient care will be influenced given these new reforms. Join us on the 5th of December from 14:00-15:00 CET via Zoom! You can register here: https://lnkd.in/dQehJ5cG Joining us will be Astrid Berner-Rodoreda from the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Katrina Perehudoff from the Law Centre for Health and Life (University of Amsterdam), Carlos Duran Salinas from UMC Utrecht, and Fatima Suleman from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Evidence Based Practice. #GlobalHealth #EU #PharmaceuticalPolicy #HealthEquity #EGHRIN #Reform

The Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Symposium covered a plethora of topics related to our theme 'Towards a Just Future in Global Health'. Professor Sheila Varadan is a Human Rights Lawyer who works on 'Just Transitions' in Antimicrobial Resistance. We invited her to speak on this topic at the recently concluded JLCF 2024 Symposium where she shared, "[The threat of AMR] goes beyond human health. We're [also] talking about animal and biodiversity health," emphasizing that while the threat has been known since the discovery of #penicillin around 80 years ago, it is only within the past 20 years that we have created points of action at a policy level. Watch her talk here: https://lnkd.in/eErvmiZB #AMR #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek2024 #WAAW2024 #EducateAdvocateActNow #HumanHealth #Biodiversity #HumanRights #LawAndHealth #InternationalPolicy #PandemicThreat

It's Day 3 of #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek! Today, our theme is on antibiotic #stewardship and #awareness. Part of AMR-Global's advocacy focuses on the importance of community-led stewardship practices combined with technological advancements in #diagnostics. Our innovations and advances in diagnostics require support from institutions and the public. Diagnostics will help us determine infections and resistance in a timely and accurate manner, allowing us to prescribe better and more tailored treatment programmes for patients. This also applies to diagnostics in agriculture, livestock, and aquaculture! We advocate for accessible #Water, #Sanitation, and #Hygiene #WASH facilities across the globe as a first-line of defense against harmful infections. Universal Healthcare #UHC should be standard to reduce barriers between people and their health and to encourage preventative care. Share your thoughts below, do you think that these advocacies require more attention? #WAAW2024 #diagnostics #AMR #GlobalHealth #UniversalHealthcare Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH) Sphereon.com SurvivX Levels Diagnostics KWR Water Research Institute NX Filtration Deltares ShanX Medtech BV TNO KNCV TB Plus VitalFluid B.V.

Dr. Rajiha Abubeker (PhD) is a Senior Researcher at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and works with the EpiGen Ethiopia team as they study various infectious diseases to help with pandemic preparedness. Dr. Abubeker recently shared her thoughts about AMR with Lauren Fromont, EpiGen Ethiopia Programme Officer, on her work and advocacy as part of this week's #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek #WAAW2024. Read about her thoughts here: https://lnkd.in/eXz6CBzS #EducateAdvocateActNow #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #GlobalHealth

Antibiotics in my drinking water?! That's what several studies discovered after testing people's urine! Postdoctoral Researcher Ernst S. shared some of his initial findings from a paper he's writing up as part of the JPIAMR-funded MAGIcIAN project. He studied N. #gonorrhoeae by modelling how environmental exposure to antibiotics can develop resistance in #gonorrhoea. He's also given us a few steps to take to better combat environmental exposure-induced antibiotic resistance! #WorldAntibioticAwarenessWeek #WAAW2024 #EducateAdvocateActNow #MAGIcIAN #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR #Water #Soil #Testing #Modelling #GlobalHealth #Health

Today, on European Antibiotic Awareness Day, we highlight the importance of the prudent use of #antibiotics and the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance (#AMR).💊🌍 ⚠Why this matters?⚠ Overusing or misusing antibiotics fuels resistance, putting modern medicine at risk. For example, the treatment of gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is increasingly jeopardized by antibiotic resistance. For people living with #HIV, this risk of this resistance is even more severe, as they are particularly vulnerable to infections that are becoming harder to treat. As Constance Schultsz from Amsterdam UMC and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development shared during our recent Multiparty Initiative launch: "Antibiotic resistance is a threat to modern medicine. The medicine that we see now in the Netherlands and elsewhere built in the last century is then impossible, including cancer treatment and major surgery without support of antibiotics. That is the situation if we have this resistance, confronting us with complicated infections that we can’t treat."   Speakers at the Multiparty Initiative launch emphasized the Netherlands' leadership role in global health and the urgent need for sustainable funding and global collaboration to tackle AMR effectively. Safeguarding antibiotics requires both coordinated international efforts and individual responsibility. Let’s use antibiotics responsibly to ensure they remain effective for generations to come! Read more about the Multiparty Initiative and AMR here ➡ https://lnkd.in/em2J5Zrd

It's World Antimicrobial Awareness Week! AMR-Global, one of our flagship antimicrobial resistance clusters, recently finished their Communities of Practice Session 2 right after the UN's 79th General Assembly Session. This session focused heavily on the steps forward for combatting antimicrobial resistance around the globe and using our position to forward better practices, stewardship, and critical research areas. Today, we are publishing part one of the report which we've developed using the input from CoP2 participants including our partners, fellow advocacy and health organizations like Access to Medicine Foundation, and the Dutch Ministries of Health (Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport) and Foreign Affairs (Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken). Our first major call for advocacy is to support antimicrobial resistance innovations in the Netherlands through a variety of economic, legislative, and social shifts. We need to provide more resources for scientists locally and around the globe to diagnose and understand the true face of AMR. #WAAW2024 #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek #GlobalHealth #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR #Interventions #PolicySuggestions #PublicHealth #AnimalHealth #OneHealth #HumanHealth World Health Organization Sphereon.com Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH) Deltares KWR Water Research Institute SurvivX ShanX Medtech BV Levels Diagnostics KNCV TB Plus TNO VitalFluid B.V. NX Filtration ZonMw

Join EECA INTERACT 2025 in #Tbilisi Georgia! The call for abstracts for the upcoming EECA INTERACT conference will end on the 30 of November. If you are a researcher working on HIV, TB and/or Hepatitis, we highly encourage you to apply! Check out our partner AFEW International for complete details! #HIV #Hep #TB #EECAINTERACT2025