AIGHD - Key Persons
Albaro Jose Nieto-Calvache is an obstetrician working in Colombia, South America. Has has specialized in obstetric intensive care and specifically in the management of placenta accreta spectrum (PAS). In recent years, his line of research has addressed the problem of PAS diagnosis and treatment in settings with limited resources, with special attention to surgical technique and collaborative work facilitated by telemedicine. He is currently doing his PhD at the University of Amsterdam under the guidance of professors Eva Pajkrt and Marcus Rijken. He believes that sharing information is the only way to overcome the common problems of many groups working with limited resources.
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- Head of EGHRIN Secretariat
Alberto graduated with a degree in Business from the University of Extremadura, Law at the Madrid University Charles III and holds a Master's in European Law and Economic Analysis from the College of Europe in Bruges. Before joining AIGHD, he worked for more than five years in EU affairs and climate & energy policy in London and Brussels, including European Commission's DG CLIMA, EUROCLIMA+, Bioenergy Europe and ADBA.
Based in Brussels, as Head of the Secretariat of the European Global Health Research Institutes Network (EGHRIN), he combines project management, coordination and advocacy tasks. Simultaneously with this position, he is also an Advocacy Advisor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), where he follows European and international global health agendas.
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- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Research Fellow
Alex is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the H-TEAM, using phylogenetic methods, mathematical modelling and geospatial mapping to better understand transmission dynamics of HIV in Amsterdam. The project aims to estimate how many new infections are being acquired locally in the city, to characterise sources of new infections, and to identify any transmission hotspots within Amsterdam. The findings will be used to inform test and treat strategies and thus limit onward spread. Alex holds a Masters in Medical Statistics (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), and a PhD in statistical methods for adaptive clinical trial design
Amber obtained her BSc in Biomedical Sciences and MSc in Neurosciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2018, she started her PhD trajectory at the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam in the team of Tessa Roseboom. In addition, she is appointed as a junior lecturer at the department of Epidemiology and Data Science in the Amsterdam UMC.
Her research focuses on prenatal determinants of brain aging. She studies cognitive and brain aging in the Dutch famine birth cohort (www.hongerwinter.nl), working with longitudinal data of both structural and functional MRI brain scans of individuals who were exposed to the Dutch famine in utero. Thereby, she aims to unravel how exposures during early brain development may impact late-life brain health and brain aging.
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- Member of the Supervisory Board
- Dean and Professor of Public International Law, University of Amsterdam
- Professor of Public International Law of the Faculty of Law
André Nollkaemper is Dean and Professor of Public International Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. He is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institut de Droit International, was external Legal Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (2010 - 2020) and President of the European Society of International Law (2014-2017) and has been visiting professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and the University of Oslo. He has published widely on questions of international law, with a particular focus on the law of international responsibility, the interaction between legal systems, international environmental law and protection of species.
ngela Jornada Ben is an MD, epidemiologist, and junior health economist working as a Joep Lange Fellow at AIGHD. She works closely with the Joep Lange Chairholder Prof. Anna Vassal to investigate the economic and health burden of Long COVID in Kenya. She also works with Prof. Constance Schultsz (AIGHD), her fellow colleague Welcome Wami, and the research team conducting the Long COVID prospective cohort in Kenya.
She used to work as a GP in the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS) (2005-2016). She earned her master's degree in Epidemiology (2011) after studying the performance of questionnaires to evaluate adherence to hypertensive treatment at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (UFRGS). She also worked as a faculty at the Department of Collective Health of the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Brazil (UFCSPA) supervising medical students and teaching epidemiology, family medicine, and public health. She used to share her time working at one of the SUS telemedicine programs (TelessaúdeRS) supporting GPs countrywide with guidelines and evidence-based practices. She obtained her PhD in Epidemiology at UFRGS (2017) after evaluating the cost-effectiveness of implementing Diabetic Retinopathy Teleophthalmology screening in the SUS. To further develop her knowledge and skills on Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, she went for a second PhD in the Department of Health Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her thesis focus on investigating methodological aspects related to health-related quality of life measures and to statistical analysis of trial-based economic evaluations.
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
Anna Vassall is the Executive Director of AIGHD, a Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Joep Lange Chair. She is a health economist with over thirty years of experience in economic analysis and research in low- and middle- income countries. Her research focuses on economic evaluation, priority setting, health systems research and the evidence informed policy. She has extensive experience supporting national health planning and priority setting, aid effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness analysis in a wide range of low- and middle- income countries.
Previously she has led a wide range of influential economic analyses on HIV prevention for key populations (Avahan programme), the integration and organisation of HIV care and treatment services (Integra project), and new diagnostics for TB (Xpert MTB/RIF), the prevention of violence against women and girls (What Works) and a recent programme of work on the economics of Covid. She has also sat on the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) for the WHO's Global TB Programme (STAG-TB) and currently sits STAG Infectious Hazards (STAG-IH), alongside numerous policy and scientific advisory boards related to priority setting, health technology assessment, health economics and modelling
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- Senior Fellow
- Senior Fellow / Associate Professor in European and International Health Law, University of Amsterdam
Prof. Anniek De Ruijter's research focuses on questions regarding constitutional safeguards for health-specific rights and values, particularly also in the context of EU and global regulatory interactions. In 2017 she received the Veni award of The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for a four-year research project on improving the EU constitutional order for responding to human health disasters such as pandemics or bioterrorist attacks.
Now, Prof. de Ruijter holds a host of positions. She is the director and founder, with many others, of the Amsterdam Law Practice programme for Experiential Learning at the Faculty of Law. She is also Associate Professor of Health Law and Policy at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Director and initiator of the Law Centre for Health and Life. As well as being a Member of the Board of AIGHD, she is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Section on Public Health and Law of the European Public Health Association. Within the UvA she is a research fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG) and an affiliated fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES). Anniek is also a member of the editorial board of the European Journal Risk Regulation with Cambridge University Press and on the Editorial Advisory Board of The LANCET Regional Europe.
Previous to these roles, Prof. de Ruijter was a year-long Fulbright fellow to the United States, and in 2018, her PhD thesis, which explored a rights-based analysis of EU health law and policy, received "honourable mention for outstanding new academic work" from the Dutch Association for Health Law. It was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 as EU Health Law and Policy: The Expansion of EU Power in Public Health and Health Care.
Arjen Dondorp trained in the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam as an infectious diseases and intensive care physician. His main research interests include the pathophysiology and treatment of severe malaria, antimalarial drug resistance (in particular artemisinin and multidrug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum), and the improvement of intensive care practice in developing countries. Building local research capacity is an integral part of all of his research activities.
He is currently the deputy director of the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), an Oxford University overseas research unit embedded within the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. The unit is an internationally recognised institute for tropical medicine research, with close to 800 staff working in 8 permanently manned research units in 5 countries. The clinical research activities of the AAP take place in approximately 50 clinical research sites across 17 countries in Asia and Africa. He heads the "malaria and critical illness" department, which runs multi-centre multi-country clinical trials on malaria and critical care in over 20 countries in Asia and Africa and has around 50 staff based in Bangkok and a network of staff employed at study sites. He is also currently Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford as well as Visiting Professor of Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University. He chairs the Regional Steering Group overseeing a large regional grant from the Global Fund for the elimination of malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion of Southeast Asia. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK.
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- Member of the Supervisory Board
- Dean, School of Business & Economics, VU University Amsterdam
- Professor of Business and Economics at the Vrije Universiteit ( VU ) Amsterdam
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- Assistant Professor
- Research Fellow
Branwyn Poleykett is an Assistant Professor in the Health, Care & the Body group. She specializes in the study of public, global, and planetary health and has conducted the majority of her research in the West African city of Dakar, in Senegal.
Her PhD (LSE, 2012) examined the regulation of commercial sexual intimacies in Dakar. Following her Ph.D., she held postdoctoral positions at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the University of Cambridge, the Rachel Carson Centre at LMU Munich, and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter. Branwyn has published on the Africanisation of global health research and the role of transnational pedagogy and capacity building in perpetuating epistemic inequality. She has a particular interest in health communication and visual methods in global health research and she is currently finalizing her monograph Lines of Sight: Decolonisation, Development and the Image World of Senegalese Hygiene.
Since 2018, Branwyn has conducted ethnographic research in Dakar households to better understand and trace the complex connections between food insecurity and the emergence of chronic diseases in the city. Drawing on perspectives from medical anthropology, social epidemiology, and political ecology, and rooted in collaborations with public health, agronomy, and clinical nutrition, her work has examined how precarious suburban households manage multiple nutrition challenges: undernutrition, stunting, wasting, hidden hunger, deficiencies, overweight and NCDs. Now, her work increasingly examines the stakes of sustainable food production and consumption in the West African Sahel, with a particular focus on the Senegalese Niayes.
Dr. Bregje De Kok's research centers on care and mortality in the area of reproductive and maternal health. More specifically, she is interested in the normative and moral aspects of sexual, reproductive, and maternal health and how these affect community members' and health professionals' behaviors, and the interaction between them. Another core focus of her work is around care as practice and differing notions of ‘good' care. Drawing from her diverse social science background, she blends ethnography, discourse, and conversation analysis to illuminate how policies, interventions, and care play out on the ground, and contribute to the development of health systems, policies, and interventions tailored to local concerns and realities. Bregje is currently an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology department at the UvA, where she is also a member of the Health, Care, and the Body team.
She received her PhD and MSc in psychology from the University of Edinburgh following her MA in psychology from the Radbound University Nijmegen. She has taught as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and the Institute for Global Health and Development at Queen Margaret University and has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh on an interdisciplinary ESRC-MRC fellowship. She has also worked as a researcher in Nursing studies at the University of Edinburgh on a study examining changes in the health visiting service in Scotland and whether it addressed the needs of Pakistani and Chinese mothers in Scotland.
Brooke Nichols, PhD, MSc, is a health economist and infectious disease mathematical modeller. She is jointly appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Microbiology, AMC and the Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health.
Her research focuses on HIV and other infectious disease treatment and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa through mathematical and geospatial modelling for efficient resource allocation. Her current work includes mathematical modelling of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in low- and middle-income countries to optimise diagnostic and therapeutic resources. She currently co-leads the global Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator's diagnostic modelling consortium aimed at improving the impact and efficiency of rapid antigen testing strategies for SARS-CoV-2. At Amsterdam UMC, she leads the Nichols Lab, which is guided by the mission to further develop the field of quantitative implementation science that provides policymakers with implementable insights that can be used to ensure scarce global healthcare resources are effectively used to maximise population health.
As a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Erasmus MC, she researched the cost-effectiveness of HIV prevention, treatment and care in the Netherlands including the cost of the Dutch HIV epidemic and the cost-effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use among men who have sex with men (MSM). From 2016-2019, Dr Nichols was also a resident at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO) in Johannesburg, South Africa, where her research focused on the interface between HIV/TB modelling, health economics and health policy/implementation in South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Zimbabwe. Her work has been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Nature, and AIDS.
Carolyne Egesa is a PhD candidate in Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Research Officer at the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Built upon her interest in the socio-cultural determinants of reproductive health behavior, sexuality, gender, and sexual behavior, her topic focuses on ideas and notions of men and manliness that are being evoked in efforts to prevent gender-based violence in urban slums in Nairobi. Through ethnographic work, her research is centered on the complex nature of masculinity aspirations of poor Nairobi youth, which she shows to be fashioned at the crossroads of structural constraints and agentive projects for a good life, and simultaneously supportive and resistive of traditional hegemonic manliness ideals.
She also has a key interest in programs and policy debates on the issues that shape health outcomes among men in urban spaces in Sub-Saharan Africa. Of greatest concern are the living conditions in urban informal settlements which are characterized by limited opportunities, deprived livelihoods, poor environmental and health conditions as well as high HIV prevalence. Carolyne has also worked for over ten years as a researcher at the African Population and Health Research Center, a leading Africa-based, African-led, international research institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, which conducts policy-relevant research on population, health, education, urbanization, and related development issues on the continent.
Cindy Sardjoe has a Bachelor's in Human Resources Management. She has worked in different cultural backgrounds in for-profit companies. Cindy has work experience in several HR roles and currently oversees the Human Resources Management at AIGHD. She is a hands-on HR specialist. Focus areas are currently on contract management, HR policy writing and implementation, compensations & benefits, and coaching (personal and career). She provides AIGHD with HR advice broadly. If you are interested to learn more about our organization, please have a look at the career page for vacancies, to submit your open application or intern request to AIGHD.
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- Senior Fellow
- Professor of Applied Evolutionary Biology at the Amsterdam University Medical Center
Colin Russell is a Professor of Applied Evolutionary Biology at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (AMC). He studies the evolution of pathogens and the host responses that control them, and most of his research focuses on influenza viruses and other respiratory viruses - however, he is interested in pathogens of all kinds.
He currently heads the Virus Evolution Team at the AMC. Together with his team of computational and wet-lab biologists, he works at the interface of evolution, epidemiology, and pathogen biology. The team uses empirically derived data on pathogens and their hosts to understand pathogen evolution. This includes integrative analyses of pathogen genetic and phenotypic data, as well as clinical and epidemiological data to study the molecular determinants of protein evolution, host-pathogen interactions and pathogenesis, within-host pathogen diversity, and between-host pathogen epidemiology.
He and his team work closely with scientists in other wet laboratories and clinical settings to inform the experimental design and acquire primary data. Their research employs a range of computational techniques including modeling of protein structures, molecular phylogenetics, statistical models for quantifying pathogen phenotypes, and mathematical models for broad data synthesis.
Additional to this, Colin is the current ERC Consolidator Awardee (2019-2024) and ZonMw/NWO VICI Laureate (2021-2026). He moved to AMC in 2017 to head the Laboratory of Applied Evolutionary Biology, having received his BSc from Emory University in 2001 and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2006. Following his PhD, he remained at the University of Cambridge, first as a Junior Research Fellow of Clare College and then as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director of Science
- Director of Science / Senior Fellow / Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam
- Medical Microbiologist and Professor
Professor Constance Schultsz is an MD, Medical Microbiologist and Professor of Global Health, in particular for emerging infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance, at the Amsterdam UMC of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Her research interests include zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases, in particular Streptococcus suis, and antibiotic resistance. She is interested in molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis, next-generation sequencing applications, smart sampling strategies for antimicrobial resistance surveillance, as well as behavioural and socio-economic drivers of antimicrobial resistance. Constance Schultsz is the coordinator of the EU JPI-AMR consortium HECTOR and Chair of the Public Private Partnership AMR-Global.
Constance Schultsz has previously worked as a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR) in Dhaka, Bangladesh and worked as a consultant microbiologist at the VU University Medical Centre. From 2003 until 2008 she headed the Microbiology department at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam, at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In 2008 she joined the Amsterdam UMC in the departments of Global Health and Medical Microbiology. She was appointed Deputy Head of the Department of Global Health in 2016 and at the same time became an executive board member of the AIGHD.
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- Fellow
- Social Science PhD Fellow
Daniel Mwale is a Social Science PhD Fellow under IMPALA project a clinical observational trial "Innovative Monitoring in Paediatrics in Low-resource settings: an Aid to save lives? (IMPALA)." He enrolled as a PhD student with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands under the School of Medicine in collaboration with Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi. He has a Master's in Public Health from Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (College of Medicine) and a Bachelor's degree in Social Science from the Catholic University of Malawi.
Dr. Daniëlla Brals, is a researcher in the field of global child health. She is also affiliated with the Childhood Acute Illness & Nutrition (CHAIN) network. Her most recent work and publications focus on the early detection of children at risk for in-patient or post-discharge mortality in low- and middle-income settings, using both novel detection tools and advanced analysis methods (e.g. artificial intelligence). Previously she earned Bachelor and Master degrees in Econometrics from the University of Amsterdam and she defended her PhD at the faculty of medicine from the University of Amsterdam.
Danny de Vries holds 20 years of experience in applied research, focusing on topic areas such as emergency preparedness for natural disasters (flood mitigation) and infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, Lyme Disease/ Tick-borne encephalitis, and norovirus). Danny currently sits on the board of Sharenet International, a knowledge platform for sexual and reproductive health and rights, and is the current Head of the Medical Anthropology and Sociology MSc at the University of Amsterdam. He is also a key member of the AIGHD team. He currently co-leads on capacity building work package for AIGHD's Horizon 2020-funded program, Global Social Sciences Network for Infectious Threats and Antimicrobial Resistance (SONAR-Global), and is the principal investigator for AIGHD led PrEPArE Consortium (Public Health Emergency Preparedness Assessments for Europe) funded by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Before this, he spent five years as a monitoring and evaluating professional for large global health projects, such as USAID's funded human resources for health strengthening (The Capacity Project), and human health rights (Bridging the Gaps, Aids Fonds). As a postdoctoral researcher, he participated in a 5-year NWO-funded project in the District of Luwero, which studied how indigenous roles and networks self-organize health services and care. As a result of this, he has continued to study community health resources and engagement, through projects with for example the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) emergency preparedness section and the Malaria Zero consortium in Haiti.
Derrick Semugenze is a biomedical laboratory scientist with about 10 years experience working in the Mycobacteriology research laboratory. He has worked on a number of research studies in tuberculosis including clinical trials evaluating new and repurposed treatment regimen and those evaluating new diagnostics. He obtained his Masters of immunology and clinical microbiology degree at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He is currently pursuing his PhD at University of Amsterdam under Amsterdam public health and Amsterdam infection and immunity. He is also a PhD fellow at Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development.
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- Director of Operations
- Member of the Board of Directors
Diana Numan has a MSc degree in economics. She filled different positions with a focus on programme management, operational management, and financial management. She worked in different countries in Africa and Central Asia for Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) before settling down in Amsterdam. From there she continued to work for various international operating organisations like MSF and Cordaid and from 2008 till 2013 Diana worked for AIGHD as programme coordinator and Director Projects. Diana expanded her management experience as Director finance and operations for the KNCV Tuberculosis foundation. In 2023 Diana re-joined AIGHD as Director of Operations. Diana has always been very motivated to contribute to providing access to quality healthcare and will continue to do so through the work we do at AIGHD.
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- Project Manager
- Project Manager / Business Development & Communications
Diede Smith holds a Master of Science in International Development Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, both from the University of Amsterdam. Her topics of interest include intersections of inequality, North-South relations, international development, and Eastern Africa. Previously, she worked at two small non-profits where she helped to connect refugees with other people and organizations in Amsterdam. In her role as a Project Manager, she hopes to bring together her interest in international development with innovative applications to global health.
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- Fellow
- Medical Laboratory Scientist
Dr. Catherine Hankins' current scientific interests include COVID_19, novel biomedical HIV prevention, implementation science, and participatory research conduct. She is keenly interested in scientific capacity development and advancing women in global health and science. She is the AIGHD co-Principal Investigator for two CAPRISA trials of long-acting technologies for the prevention of HIV acquisition in young women. These are CAPRISA 012 - combination monoclonal antibodies (South Africa, Zambia) and CAPRISA 018 - sustained-release tenofovir alafenamide subdermal implant (South Africa). She was Scientific Chair and Organising Committee Chair for six of AIGHD's annual INTEREST conferences on HIV treatment, pathogenesis, and prevention research in resource-limited settings (2015 Harare, 2016 Yaoundé, 2017 Lilongwe, 2018 Kigali, 2019 Accra, 2020 Windhoek (virtual). She is the Scientific Co-Chair of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia INTERACT Workshop (Almaty, 2019; virtual 2021).
In April 2020, she was appointed co-chair of Canada's Covid-19 Immunity Task Force, which catalyses, supports, funds, and harmonizes research on SARS-CoV-2 immunity for decision-makers and is generating critical insights on levels, trends, nature, and duration of immunity arising from SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination. Since 2017 she has chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership 2. In 2016 she led the development of Good Participatory Practice (GPP) Guidelines for trials of Emerging Pathogens for the World Health Organisation's R&D Blueprint.
For a decade until coming to AIGHD, she was the Chief Scientific Adviser to UNAIDS in Geneva. She led the scientific knowledge translation team focused on ensuring ethical and participatory biomedical HIV prevention trial conduct, convening mathematical modelling teams, and supporting country implementation of proven biomedical HIV prevention modalities. She has participated in programme committees for numerous conferences. She was the Lead Rapporteur for Implementation Science at the International AIDS Society (IAS) 2017 conference in Paris, was Track D co-chair (Social and Political Research, Law, Policy, and Human Rights) for Amsterdam's IAS 2018, and is a member of Track E Implementation Science for IAS 2022 (Montreal). Since 2008, she has been a member of the IAS Industry Liaison Forum, founded by Joep Lange.
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- Research Fellow
- Social Scientist
Dr. Christopher Pell is a qualitative social scientist with a background in medical anthropology. Collaborating with colleagues from varied disciplines across the world, Dr. Pell's research spans diverse health domains and care settings. Often his work aims to ensure that the perspectives and experiences of users - patients and health staff - are incorporated into the development and implementation of interventions.
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- Senior Fellow
- Assistant Professor of Medical and Urban Anthropology at the UvA
- Professor
Eileen Moyer is currently a Professor in the Anthropology of Ecology, Health and Climate Change, Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Her current work is preceded by more than twenty years of research on HIV/AIDS. While Moyer continues to supervise research and publish on HIV, gender and sexual health, she now also runs a research programme examining the relationship between health, environment and inequalities in Africa and Europe. She is currently directing an NWO-funded project on the water, energy and food nexus South African cities and co-leads a consortium investigating the lifecycle of plastics in relation to health and climate change mitigation.
Since the culmination of her PhD (UvA) in 2003, she has received funding from multiple international sources to examine the myriad of ways that HIV/AIDS is entangled in human social relations in urban Africa. She is considered a leading international social science researcher in the field of HIV and sexual health and community engagement; most of her applied research has focused on improving HIV or sexual and reproductive health interventions in the global south. With more than 80 publications to her name, she has been published in anthropological, medical, public health, health policy, urban and media studies journals. She is also the co-founder and co-editor of the open-access journal Medicine Anthropology Theory.
In October 2008, Moyer was appointed Assistant Professor of medical and urban anthropology at the UvA and since then has worked with prominent Dutch NGOs (AIDSfonds, Rutgers, HIVOS). She was granted tenure in October 2012 and promoted to the position of Associate Professor in 2016. In 2019 she was promoted to Full Professor. At AIGHD, Eileen Moyer is developing a focus area in Ecology, Health and Environment, while overseeing the social science arm of an applied health project focusing on improving access to HIV treatment in Tanzania.
Moyer, Eileen (2019) Becoming a Target of HIV Intervention: The science and politics of anthropological reframing. Medicine Anthropology Theory. 6(4):315-324. http://www.medanthrotheory.org/read/11654/becoming-a-target-of-hiv-intervention
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- Principle Investigator of INDIGO Project
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- Project Manager / PhD Fellow
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- Member of the Supervisory Board
- Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam
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- Grant Acquisition and Business Development Manager
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- Project Manager / Education Support
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- Communications Specialist
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- Project Manager, the Amsterdam Centre for Global Child Health
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- Head of Project Management
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- Senior Fellow
- Chairman of the Knowledge
- Senior Fellow / Professor in Anthropology of Health and Social Care, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Trained as a medical anthropologist and biologist, Prof. Anita Hardon has been engaged in ambitious multi-level, multi-sited, and often interdisciplinary studies on immunization, new reproductive technologies, HIV medicines, and illicit and licit chemicals that have generated important ethnographic insights on the appropriation of these technologies in diverse social-cultural settings, their efficacy in everyday life, the role of social movements in their design, and the dynamics of care and policy-making in their provision. She makes communicating research findings to patient advocates, policy-makers, and public health researchers and practitioners a priority.
Anita Hardon is currently the chair of the Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation group at Wageningen University. She also holds the position of chair of the Social Sciences and Humanities at NWO (Dutch Research Council) and an executive board member of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD). She was a full professor of Anthropology in the faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences and director of the research priority area Global Health at the University of Amsterdam and the former scientific director of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR).
In addition to these roles, she is regularly sought after as a Ph.D. supervisor, a guest lecturer, a keynote presenter, and an advisor. Anita has had visiting professorships from universities around the world and numerous prestigious awards recognizing her invaluable contribution to the field of healthcare, global health, and sexual and reproductive 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 live and work shape their health, with the ultimate aim of translating his research findings to targeted intervention programs and clinical practices that are most appropriate for these populations. Lately, he has focused his attention on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic minorities in places like the UK, the US, and the Netherlands.
He is a Professor of Global Migration, Ethnicity and Health, and Principal Investigator at Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA). He is also currently the Vice President of the Migrant Health section of the European Public health Association; Scientific Chair of the Global Society of Migration, Ethnicity, Race & Health; and a fellow of the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) under the Consolidation Award program. He is the PI of the RODAM study (www.rod-am.EU) and has published extensively and edited several books. He is a member of the WHO task force on NCDs in Migrants and was also a member and a rapporteur of the Planning Committee for WHO Global Consultation on Migrant Health. He is a member of the Lancet Racial Equality Advisory Board and the European Hypertension Society Workgroup on Hypertension & Cardiovascular Risk in Low Resource Settings. Prof. Agyemang serves as a member of several scientific advisory boards.
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- Member of the Supervisory Board
- Dean, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam
- Professor in Emotions
Prof. Dr. Agneta Fischer is Professor in Emotions and Affective Processes in the Social Psychology Group of the University of Amsterdam (see AICE, Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Center of Emotion) and currently Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her broad research interest is emotions in social contexts, and she has published in the domain of facial expressions of emotion, emotional mimicry, culture and gender differences in emotions, embodiment, and the social functions of emotions. She has played an active role in the International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE) for a long time, i.e. as president (2004-2009), and founder of ISRE's journal Emotion Review. She has been chief editor of Cognition and Emotion (2012-2017), and consulting editor of various other journals. She is also one of the coordinators of CERE, the Center for European Research on Emotion that organizes bi-annual conferences on emotions in Europe.
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 and Development, of the European Union Development Network, and a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute. He has also been director of the Amsterdam Institute for International Development and Desmond Tutu Chair Holder of The School of Business and Economics. Last year he retired as a professor from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).
Since 1984, he has been a member of the Development Research Group in the Economics department at the VU. The Development Research Group focuses on applied microeconomic research in developing countries, in particular countries in Sub-Sahara Africa. He studied econometrics and mathematical economics at the University of Amsterdam and got his PhD from the VU. Most of his work is on applied econometrics using micro-level data. In the 1990s, he elaborated, together with Jenny and Peter Lanjouw, the original idea of combining census and survey data to obtain predictions of local poverty, ‘poverty mapping', and since then has been working on and off on this and related topics, often commissioned by the World Bank. Other work, jointly with Jan Willem Gunning, involved household-level investment dynamics and impact evaluation.
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- Financial Administrator Pharmaccess
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- Member of the Supervisory Board
- Chairman, Department of Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam
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- Professor of Business & Economics