March 1, 2022
Human immune systems in Europe and US make us more vulnerable to exotic new zoonoses, like COVID-19
Event Recap: Club EvMed: Immunity, symbiosis, and COVID-19 JLI's Prof Tobias Rinke de Wit participated in an event 22 February on how evolutionary medicine helps explain regional differences in pandemic…
October 17, 2021
Dr Christoph Benn speaks at the C20 Summit
President Biden recently announced a new fund for global health threats and many advocates and activists are debating whether the world really needed a new fund or whether they should…
March 1, 2021
CarePay Kenya and Ajua release report on COVID-19 driving digitization of Healthcare in Kenya
CarePay Kenya and Ajua released a report on the acceleration of digitization being driven by Covid-19. Ajua's SMS survey platform covered 4, 345 respondents spread across Kenya on the growing…
February 22, 2021
JLI’s Dr Tobias Rinke de Wit on NTR: ATLAS: Covid-19 in Africa
Last week Prof Tobias Rinke de Wit, Director Research JLI, was on Dutch television program NTR: Atlas discussing his ongoing COVID-19 work in Africa. When the epidemic emerged on the…
February 15, 2021
Health Equity sounds great, but how can we achieve it?
As a term, health equity is broad. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as a society we’ll achieve health equity “when everyone has the opportunity to…
February 1, 2021
Dr Tobias Rinke de Wit in the Volkskrant: “As long as there is Corona in Africa, the whole world is at risk”
The COVID situation in Africa deserves more attention. Even though symptoms of the disease are less severe, the continent will be struck by continued economic and social isolation. Viruses will…
December 17, 2020
RIVM and GGD launch a large-scale study on behavior, psychology and health in the Netherlands.
RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) and GGD GHOR (the Netherlands Municipal Public Health Services and Medical Assistance in Accidents and Disasters) are conducting a large-scale study on behaviors…