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In the fringes of the ITM Colloquium 2026,  the ITM Alumni meeting will be organised on Sunday 15 November 2026 from 9.30 AM -2.30 PM (lunch included) at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Addis.  All ITM alumni living and/or working in Ethiopia and/or attending the ITM Colloquium 2026 are warmly invited to join! Register here.At ITM, we are currently engaging in strategic discussions on ITM’s educational

The weekly International Health Policies (IHP) newsletter is a 'one week stop on global health policy news, events, reports... and what not. It's a curated compilation from niche newsletters & peer reviewed journals. With Feat articles from young HPSR researchers from the Global South.   Read the Newsletter's intro to find out how you can make best use of the IHP knowledge management tool, accordi

The ITM/DGD Sandwich PhD Call 2026 is now open for applications. The deadline for submission is 15 September 2026.About the callIn the 2026 call round, ITM will award up to 4–6 PhD grants to outstanding candidates. These grants are part of a comprehensive capacity-strengthening programme supported by the Directorate-General for Development Cooperation (DGD): “The Health We Share – Strengthening He

Calling all recent Master’s grads in biomedical or clinical sciences! Do you want to level up in clinical immunology and become involved in clinical studies & trials? Discover our Patient Immunomonitoring courses at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp!  Immunomonitoring techniques for human samples can feel like a maze, but don't worry, we’ve got the map. Get a clear, practical overview

The tropEd Global Health Summer School 2026 will be organised between 31 Aug - 4 Sept 2026. Every year, the Summer School takes participants on a journey around the globe with a freshly designed programme. This year: fifteen sessions, multiple perspectives, and tropEd member institutions from Thailand, Tanzania, Venezuela, Mali, Vietnam, Spain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switze

Keep fostering your personal growth and professional development and have a look at our expert courses courses open for application. More information is available here. Thank you for sharing this information with your network.

This is a special call to the ITM alumni with a selected abstract for the 2026 edition of the Union World Conference on Lung Health, taking place from 17-19 November in Rio de Janeiro.  The ITM Alumni Network supports alumni to attend international scientific meetings and will promote alumni participation in the Union World Conference on Lung Health 2026. We strongly encourage ITM alumni with a se

Dear ITM MSc- & PhD-student,This is to inform you on the available Erasmus+ opportunities for outgoing (master and doctoral) student mobility (studies and traineeships) in the academic years 2026-2027 & 2027-2028 (with mobility deadline 31st of July 2028).Do you plan to do a traineeship at one of ITM’s European partner institutions to strengthen specific skills or to collect field data for your th

Did you miss the ITM Alumni webinar organised in light of the World Malaria Day? No worries! The webinar recording, featuring PhD alumnus Kombate Gountante is online now in the media centre of this platform!

Do we care? – Be-cause health International Conference20 October 2026, 10 am – 5 pm, Brussels & online Call for Abstracts extended until 13th of May! Cliquez ici pour obtenir la version française en format PDF, y compris l'annexe. Click here for the English version in PDF including the annex. 1. Context - A needed sense of urgency on failing care in times of polycrisis: we must act! While health f

'A tribute to Professor Doctor Eric Mukomena Sompwe'by fellow former student and colleague Maxwell V Madzikanga"In the quiet hush of Lubumbashi’s red earth, where the baobab stands sentinel over the Congo’s restless heart, we bid farewell to a son who became a giant. Professor Doctor Eric Mukomena Sompwe slipped into eternity on the night between the third and the fourth of April in the year two t

ITM Alumni Webinar World Malaria Day 2026 'From evidence to impact: Rethinking malaria control through integrated and targeted strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa’ Register via Zoom World Malaria Day is an occasion to share insights and research findings on malaria-related research, highlighting the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention, treatment and

We would like to recommend the next Citizen Science 4 Health Conference which will be held in Odense, Denmark from 19-21 April 2027. Please, keep an eye on the call for abstracts and the change to register for this interesting conference!  This international event, organized by Odense University Hospital, the Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark, and the ECSA Working Group on Citi

What is the Emerging Voices for Global Health training program?Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) is an innovative multi-partner blended training program for promising and emerging health policy & systems researchers, decision-makers, knowledge-brokers, implementers and other health system actors with the passion and potential to become influential global health voices and global/ local cha

Applications for the following short courses from the ITM Department of Biomedical Sciences are now open:Short Course: “Applied Epidemiology”Participants should already have strong experience in: "Data analysis in R", "Basic statistics (hypothesis testing, significance)" and "Concepts of diagnostic tool performance (sensitivity, specificity)".Timeline: 21/09/2026 - 09/10/2026 (F2F at ITM, Belgium)

Amnesty International has sent out a short survey to (international) organisations in the field of health about the impact of recent international aid cuts. You can help them by completing the form for your own organisation and sharing it within your network. The deadline for completion is March 3rd.

Did you miss the ITM Alumni webinar organised in light of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science? No worries! The webinar recording, featuring ITM alumni Christelle Boyi Hounsou is online now in the media centre of this platform!

On Friday 26 June, 2026, the Belgian Association for Public Health (BAPH) is organizing, at the Galilee building, Brussels, the symposium:Wellbeing in a Changing World: Promoting Mental and Social Health Across the Life CourseThe morning of the symposium will be organized around plenary sessions and practical workshops during which Belgian experts will address the fundamental principles of mental

ITM alumnus Ibrahim Franklyn Kamara (OIR 2021, AIM 2023) recently published his article “Operational Research to improve health systems in the Global South” in Nature. Ibrahim is a medical doctor, public health specialist, and researcher who works as the Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition technical officer at the World Health Organization Country Office in Sierra Leone.In this article, the

Check out the first edition of the revamped IHP newsletter, with improved navigation!The weekly International Health Policies (IHP) newsletter is a 'one week stop on global health policy news, events, reports... and what not. It's a curated compilation from niche newsletters & peer reviewed journals. With Feat articles from young HPSR researchers from the Global South.   Read the Newsletter's intr