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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

Admissions are open for our eCourse on Clinical Research and Evidence-based Medicine (eSCREM): Research Protocol Development! Application deadline: 15 June 2026. Click here for more information.We appreciate you sharing this information with your network.

Le réseau Afrique Francophone & Fragilité (AFRAFRA) annonce, avec le soutien des facultés de médecine et d'odontostomatologie et de pharmacie de Bamako, de l'institut de Médecine Tropicale d'Anvers (Belgique)et de nos ONG partenaires, l'organisation de la 2ème édition de nos journées scientifiques qui se tiendront du 24 au 26 Juin 2026 à l'hôtel de l'Amitié de Bamako, au Mali.1- ThématiqueLes pays

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 year 2025-2026.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 thesis?Then, please be informed that ITM has limited fundi

Do you have a paper on Climate change and Human Health? Submit to the special collection in BMC Global and Public Health by Springer Nature Great to see that one of the guest editors is MPH alumnus Hashim Hounkpatin! More information

We congratulate Opeyemi, Sofia, Kéfilath, Salvator and Tabitha with their PhD!You can read their abstracts here:PhD defence Opeyemi Rebecca Akinajo: Beyond Effectiveness: Implementation Factors Influencing Uptake of IV Iron for Anaemia in Pregnancy in NigeriaPhD defence Sofia Vielma: Behavioural Ecology and Spatial Dynamics of Anopheles coluzzii SwarmsPhD defence Kéfilath Bello: Primary Health Car

Our historic water basin at the entrance of the ITM clinic has been selected as one of eight heritage treasures competing in the Heritage Challenge 2025, organised by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA). With your vote, we could win a prize to restore the bassin.Voting is open until 1 February 2026.Your vote mattersEvery vote brings us closer to restoring this hidden technical mas

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

The 2026 ITM/DGD postdoctoral grants call is open for applications now with deadline for submission of applications 15 March 2026.The Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) at Antwerp will award up to 4 to 6 postdoctoral grants to PhD holders who are based in a LMIC home institute to carry out a tailored postdoctoral training programme with stays at ITM for maximum 3 months per calendar year in a pe