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News from the Department of Public Health

Aanvang van het Alma Ata-symposium

23 Oct 18

Too many people still without access to basic health care, 40 years after the Alma Ata Declaration

International experts in Antwerp to take stock of progress on primary health care ahead of large WHO-UNICEF gathering in Astana

Health care and policy

Emerging Voices 2018 during the training

12 Oct 18

Emerging Voices in Liverpool

Young researchers get their voices heard at the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research

Health care and policy

Lazare Manirankunda en Charles Ddungu (centraal) van HIV-SAM nemen de cheque in ontvangst van Frank de Neef (rechts) en Sylvia van Craen (links) van Antwerp Diner.

29 Jun 18

ITM receives Antwerp Diner check worth € 32.500

With the contribution of Antwerp Diner 2018, the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp try to improve the quality of life of vulnerable HIV patients.

HIV

Bruno Marchal and Ariadna Nebot Giralt

12 Apr 18

Georgia on Their Mind

Bruno Marchal and Ariadna Nebot Giralt contribute to better TB care in Georgia

P³

WHO board meeting in Geneva  of 22 November

11 Dec 17

New Beginnings at the WHO

Emerging Voice for Global Health Sana Contractor writes about her participation in a recent WHO’s Executive Board meeting

ITM Voices

Sara Roegiers

22 Nov 17

Distance learning at ITM presented at eLearning Africa

As e-learning expert of the Department of Public Health, I went to the annual eLearning Africa conference last September to present our distance learning module for animal health experts.

ITM Voices

Pills

17 Oct 17

Poor quality medicines on the programme at ECTMIH

The Be-cause health and IDDO Medicines Quality teams will be addressing the issue of poor quality medicines at the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health.

Quality of medicines

View from the upper floor of the School of Public Health (SOPH) at the University of the Western Cape

20 Jul 17

Pharmacy and Public Health

Tips and plans from a week in Cape Town

ITM Voices

Participants at the workshop

14 Jul 17

Equity-LA II workshop on local health systems

International workshop on the integration of fragmented local health systems in Latin America took place in Uruguay

Health care and policy

Joss Dinanga Muzudi analysing a sample under the microscope in the vicinity of Mbuji-Mayi

05 Jul 17

Sleeping sickness, quo vadis?

Seminar in The Lancet on Human African Trypanosomiasis

Sleeping sickness

Red and green pills

12 Jun 17

New terminology aids understanding of poor quality medicines 

The World Health Assembly has agreed on new terminology that aims to establish a common understanding of key terms used to describe poor quality medical products.

Quality of medicines

Workshop participants at ITM

26 May 17

Workshop to develop e-learning course

Online courses on reproductive health and primary health care for Guinean health workers

22 May 17

Fighting multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Georgia

ITM and others to assist the government of Georgia in developing a provider incentive payment scheme for tuberculosis

Health care and policy

Five dimensions of scale-up

11 May 17

Performance-based financing: from pilot to system

A series of articles on understanding what enables or hinders the transition of performance-based financing initiatives to being fully integrated into national health systems

Health care and policy

26 Apr 17

Bridging the gap between pharmacy and public health

All throughout my professional experience, either in humanitarian programs or in international collaborative research, I have often been frustrated by the perception of pharmacy as a purely 'technical' issue.

ITM Voices

sandfly

07 Apr 17

The psychosocial impact of cutaneous leishmaniasis scars

World Health Day is held every year on 7 April. To mark the occasion, Issam Bennis, first author of a new study published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty, tells us about his research.

Leishmaniasis

Het panel met Yasmine Kherbache aan het woord

20 Mar 17

African students debate health care with Flemish politicians

25 master's students debated with Flemish politicians about social protection in health.

Health care and policy

14 Mar 17

Visceral leishmaniasis: global understanding of a complex disease

Generating new data to inform and guide policies and practices on the Indian subcontinent

Leishmaniasis

10 Mar 17

Training high level cadres of the Moroccan Ministry of Health

A short course in health systems and policy analysis (CARPeSS for Cours en Analyse et Renforcement des Politiques et Systèmes de Santé)

Health care and policy

03 Mar 17

QMM spinoff in Cuba

Course entitled Qualitative Research and Introduction to Mixed Methods Designs for Disease Control took place at the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK), Havana, Cuba

01 Mar 17

Men have a role to play in ending FGM, but they don't play it

A study exploring men’s involvement in female genital mutilation

Maternal and reproductive health

27 Feb 17

Launching the Congolese Knowledge Centre in Kinshasa

Its role will be to review, synthetise and contextualise existing evidence and direct these to the decision-making levels in the Congolese health system

Health care and policy

23 Feb 17

GOARN members meet in London

WHO organises a workshop for members of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

23 Feb 17

Maternal and child health post-Ebola

Maternal and child health services have not yet recovered from Ebola

Ebola

08 Dec 16

Euroleish.net, the London networking retreat

EuroLeish.net supervisors, fellows and partners gathererd for the 2nd networking retreat as mid-term review of the 15 PhD projects

Leishmaniasis

(c) CDC Global

30 Nov 16

Alumni in Vancouver

ITM Alumni and Emerging Voices at the 4th Global Symposium of Health Systems Research

Health care and policy

24 Nov 16

Emerging Voices impress at Global Symposium in Vancouver

The 2016 Emerging Voices 4 Global Health (EV4GH), linked to the 4th Global Symposium on Health System Research, brought together 40 young health system researchers and professionals.

Switching the Poles

23 Nov 16

Global symposium award goes to ITM PhD student

Ona Ilozumba wins the “best student poster award” at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research

Health care and policy

22 Nov 16

Short-term Training in Tropical and Infectious Diseases in Nepal

Nepalese doctors participate in this 5-week training session on common tropical and infectious diseases

08 Nov 16

Mobile health interventions: no silver bullet for diabetes patients

In her doctoral thesis, Dr. Josefien van Olmen says that much-touted mobile technologies for self-management alone will not solve the problem.

Diabetes

03 Nov 16

ITM and BTC join forces to help rebuild Guinea’s health system

The country is currently rebuilding and strengthening its health system after the Ebola epidemic of 2014-2015

Health care and policy

25 Oct 16

ITM receives EU funding for Zika research

The Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) and the KU Leuven are part of a group of international organisations that will carry out Zika research with funding from the European Union.

Zika

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