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    Through the Shadows of the Pandemic: COVID-19, citizens and moral dilemmas
    • Feb 2
    • 4 min

    Through the Shadows of the Pandemic: COVID-19, citizens and moral dilemmas

    In these months of pandemic and lockdowns, governments and health authorities have imposed a series of unprecedented measures impacting...
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    How to prepare for future outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases, like Covid-19?
    • Nov 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    How to prepare for future outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases, like Covid-19?

    Effective responses to outbreaks of infectious diseases, like Covid-19, require sufficient knowledge and expertise to timely recognize...
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    How the COVID outbreak magnifies the call for more attention to women in global health
    • Nov 3, 2020
    • 9 min

    How the COVID outbreak magnifies the call for more attention to women in global health

    The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in chaos around the world regarding containment of the spread, the organisation of care and minimising...
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    Innovative inclusion of values and knowledge of citizens and professionals in vaccination guidelines
    • Oct 6, 2020
    • 1 min

    Innovative inclusion of values and knowledge of citizens and professionals in vaccination guidelines

    New opportunities for entwining AI and deliberation Through a joint funding application, the Athena Institute, and the Department of...
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    COVID-19: a crisis that makes already existing inequalities more obvious
    • Sep 28, 2020
    • 5 min

    COVID-19: a crisis that makes already existing inequalities more obvious

    Beth Shalom is a Jewish nursing home in Amsterdam Zuid. The building has a light, airy and open feeling. Residents’ rooms are set along...
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    Self-dependance in technology innovation during COVID-19 times
    • Jun 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    Self-dependance in technology innovation during COVID-19 times

    A Model for Priority Setting in Health Technology Innovation Policy The governance of medical technology has over the last decades...
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    The COVID-19 outbreak, as seen from a Global Health student's perspective
    • May 29, 2020
    • 3 min

    The COVID-19 outbreak, as seen from a Global Health student's perspective

    Written by Elise Garton, a second-year RMGH student from Minnesota, USA. Her internship is an Amsterdam Public Health-funded...
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    Blockchain-facilitated sharing to advance outbreak R&D
    • May 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    Blockchain-facilitated sharing to advance outbreak R&D

    In a world in which we are increasingly mobile, outbreaks of known or new infectious diseases are a real and unavoidable threat. It is...
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    Internships at Centre of Equity Studies in India cut short because of COVID-19
    • May 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Internships at Centre of Equity Studies in India cut short because of COVID-19

    Nicole Pal and Päivi Reckman, first year students of the Research Master Global Health, had to return from their interships at the Centre...
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    Civil-military cooperation during an outbreak
    • May 12, 2020
    • 1 min

    Civil-military cooperation during an outbreak

    Jacobine Janse, military doctor for the Netherlands Ministry of Defense, with a specialist medical training in Community Healthcare,...
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    COVID-19 and students’ health
    • May 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    COVID-19 and students’ health

    At the moment we are all dealing with a global pandemic of COVID-19, which requires strong global and cross-sectional collaboration....
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    A pandemic in unequal India
    • Apr 7, 2020
    • 7 min

    A pandemic in unequal India

    If the coronavirus pandemic lashes India with the severity that many public health experts dread, it will not be just the middle class...
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