Recap
The annual Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Masterclass, organized by AIGHD and JLI, recently took place for the third year. Late-stage PhD students and early-stage researchers in global health from around the world were selected to participate in our masterclass. The theme of this year’s event was “The Future of Vaccination” and featured presentations from eight young researchers. The masterclass, held virtually, provided a platform for students to receive feedback and engage in discussions with experts and peers. It also honored the spirit of Prof. Joep Lange, emphasizing knowledge exchange and mentorship. The masterclass offers valuable networking opportunities and assistance for young investigators in their research endeavors.
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Below is a list of accepted abstracts and presenter bios for Masterclass 2021
Amisah Zenabu Bakuri
Amisah Zenabu Bakuri was born in Ghana and holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in History and Political Science from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. After graduation, she worked for a year as a Research and Teaching Assistant (TA) at the Department of History and Political Science, KNUST. In September 2012, Amisah received a scholarship from the Eric Bleumink Fund for a period of 24 months to undertake a Research Master in Modern History and International Relations at the University of Groningen(RUG) in the Netherlands. At RUG, she was also selected to participate in the Masters Honours programme –Leadership making a difference. Amisah is a PhD Candidate at the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam. Amisah loves teaching and her research interest spans a wide range and intersection of issues of Health, Policy, Religion, Sexuality, Gender, Climate, Well-being, African Diaspora and African history.
Please find Amisah’s abstract here.
Jan Pieter Koopman
Jan Pieter Koopman is currently a third-year PhD student at the Controlled Human Infections Centre at the Leiden University Medical Centre. His background is in Medicine (Leiden University) and Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). His PhD research focuses on the development of controlled human infection models for parasitic diseases, such as schistosomiasis, to aid vaccine development through preliminary efficacy testing of vaccine candidates as well as the identification of potential correlates of protection or novel vaccine targets.
Please find Jan’s abstract here.
Anna Dimitrova
Anna Dimitrova is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) where she examines the impacts of environmental change on populations in low- and middle-income countries. She is particularly interested in understanding the determinants of climate change vulnerabilities in terms of population health and migration. Anna earned her PhD at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) in September 2020. Her PhD thesis explored the impacts of droughts and extreme precipitation events on child undernutrition in Ethiopia and India. Prior to this, she gained an MSc in Socio-ecological Economics and Policy from the WU and an MA in Economics from the University of Glasgow.
Please find Anna’s abstract here.
Adinda Kok
Adinda Kok is a PhD candidate at the Viroscience department of the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where she studies avian influenza virus evolution as part of the group of Dr. Mathilde Richard in the lab of Prof. Dr. Ron Fouchier. Adinda’s project centers around studying the evolution of avian influenza viruses and utilizing this information for the development of broadly reactive vaccine candidates against these viruses. She obtained her BSc in Liberal Arts & Sciences at University College Utrecht, which included a semester at the University of California, San Diego, after which she obtained her MSc in Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences at Utrecht University. Adinda is enthusiastic about unraveling complex problems in infectious diseases by using a multidisciplinary approach and while working towards an applied goal.
Please find Adinda’s abstract here.
Sebastian Nielsen
Sebastian Nielsen has a background in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Copenhagen. Currently doing the 3rd of his PhD on evaluating the non-specific effects of oral polio vaccine campaigns in low-income countries. He has been based in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, since 2018 and is collaborating with numerous other health and demographic surveillance systems around the world of which the most recent published work from Bangladesh was presented at the Joep Lange Institute masterclass.
Please find Sebastian’s abstract here.
Daphne Bussink-Voorend
Daphne is a medical doctor and PhD candidate at the Radboudumc. She focuses in her research on hesitation about vaccinations and combines research with a residency in infectious disease control and public health. Her background is in global health and tropical diseases and she worked previously in LMIC’s, where she gained valuable hands-on experience with various outbreaks and got particularly interested in unanticipated behavior during outbreaks. She conducted previous research projects in Sierra Leone on health indicators of pregnant women and the impact of COVID-19 on utilization of hospital services.
Please find Daphne’s abstract here.
Tarun K George
Dr Tarun K George is an internist and health economist with experience in secondary and tertiary care in India. He is a faculty at The Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. After a broad exposure to internal medicine and specialty practice at rural and urban India, he seeks to strengthen educational systems to enhance clinical skills and generate evidence that improves patientcare in varied resource settings. After his graduation in a Master’s in Global Health Economics from Johns Hopkins school of Public health, he hopes to collaborate in developing decision support systems for policy making at a public health and clinical context for LMICs.
Please find Tarun’s abstract here.
Natalia Lozano
Natalia Lozano is a Ph.D. candidate at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam. She holds a Master of Arts in Development Studies from ISS, with a specialization in conflict and peace studies and a degree in International Relations. Natalia’s central commitment is to social justice. This commitment has taken her to engage in diverse topics of study related to the development processes in the Global South, ranging from women’s experiences of militarization to adolescents’ embodied realities of Human Papillomavirus vaccination injuries. Her current research project investigates the politics and implications for social justice of Human Papillomavirus public vaccination concerning young women’s embodied experiences of vaccine injuries; and the discursive association between universal immunization and socio-economic development.
Please find Natalia abstract here.