🎓 Celebrating excellence in early-career research! ITM’s and @uantwerpen.be's Janne Wouters & Niki Danel have earned the prestigious @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social PhD Fellowship 👏 Janne explores skin immune responses, while Niki studies sleeping sickness parasites. 🔗 www.itg.be/en/health-st...

⏱️Last chance to register for the 65th ITM Colloquium! Join leading experts, including Dr. Tokpanou Koudjo, in Antwerp to exchange insights and shape the future of global health. This year’s theme is “Breaking Boundaries: Innovations in Infectious Disease Research.” ➡️https://www.colloq2025.be/

"Generative AI tools have long been found to replicate – and at times exaggerate – broader societal biases. The proliferation of biased images in global health communications may make the problem worse," said ITM researcher Arsenii Alenichev.

Happy to share our work on the multiple, interlinked determinants of poor #prescribing of #medicine in #conflict areas in #Mali: practices easily labeled as ‘irrational’ are in fact shaped by contextual constraints! University of Bamako @itmantwerp.bsky.social journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

We’re ready to welcome global experts to Antwerp for our 65th ITM Colloquium: ‘Breaking Boundaries: Innovations in Infectious Disease Research’! 🧬Jeffrey Siegel (Canada) joins us to share his filter forensics research and explore how creativity and collaboration can push global health forward. 🌍

“In a partnership on equal footing, one side cannot decide to reduce a previously agreed contribution by 25% or 50%. A cooperation should be more reliable than a donor–recipient relationship,” says @gorikooms.bsky.social, health-policy researcher at ITM. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Nu hebben we voor het eerst bewijs dat ook de antibiotica in het voedsel rechtstreeks aanleiding kunnen geven tot een verhoogde kans op antibioticaresistentie", zegt microbioloog Dorien Van den Bossche. ➡️https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-18714-3

Join Wahid Fakhri Husein for his alumni webinar next Wednesday! 🎓 An Indonesian veterinarian and Master in Global One Health graduate, he’ll share insights from his research on eliminating rabies in Bali through coordinated dog vaccination and bite case management. 💉 Link in first comment.

🧬Join us 4–6 Nov in Antwerp for the 65th ITM Colloquium: Breaking Boundaries: Innovations in Infectious Disease Research! Through evidence, dialogue & exchange, we seek to co-create a roadmap for infectious disease research and policy that is as inclusive as it is innovative. Link in first comment.

🎧 Don’t miss our webinar tomorrow with Fernando!

Fresh Off The Journal – September From tongue swabs for leprosy to gaps in maternity care, ITM research this month tackles diagnostics, treatment challenges & maternal health. 🔗 www.itg.be/en/health-st...

Niet alleen bombardementen, maar ook het toenemende tekort aan geneesmiddelen maakt slachtoffers in Gaza. Uit onderzoek door het Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde blijkt dat minder dan de helft van de onderzochte middelen voldoende voorradig is. www.mo.be/nieuws/nieuw...

✋ How do you stop a fast-moving #mpox outbreak? Thanks to our emergency #funding mechanism, the MBOTE-SK project launched in record time, building on lessons from the earlier MBOTE-Maniema project More: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve... @itmantwerp.bsky.social

🚨 New @thelancet.com Research letter: Severe medicine shortages in Gaza. “People are dying not only from bombs but also from lack of medicines.” - @salehaljadeeah.bsky.social. “Without ceasefire, an end of the blockade, medicine shortages will continue.”

🌍 Today is World Rabies Day with this year’s WHO theme “Act now: You, Me, Community.” Rabies is preventable with timely vaccination. 💉 A Belgian study by ITM & UZA shows 99.5% still developed strong antibodies so routine follow-up blood tests aren’t needed. 🐾

"We zien dat de bacterie noordwaarts oprukt. Ze gedijt goed in water dat warmer is dan 20 graden. Door de klimaatopwarming warmt de zee ook op," zegt ITG-infectioloog Steven Van Den Broucke. "Maar er is geen reden tot paniek. We moeten vooral voorzichtig zijn en ons ervan bewust blijven."

Today we joined the call for the #right to receive and provide #healthcare, for the right to live. Everywhere. #Gaza #Yemen #Sudan #Afghanistan #Ukraine #DRC #Syria #Haïti etc. medicsonthemoveforwhatmatters.org @itmantwerp.bsky.social

We are proud to announce that four ITM researchers have been awarded prestigious postdoctoral fellowships from the Research Foundation Flanders - FWO in 2025. Congrats to Anke, @antenehasefa.bsky.social, Daan, and Irene! 🔎Learn more about their projects: www.itg.be/en/health-st...

Don’t miss next Thursday’s alumni webinar with Ilhaam Ashraf! 💡 A medical doctor from India and 2025 MPH graduate, Ilhaam Ashraf will share insights from her thesis on making primary health care fairer and more inclusive, presenting a practical framework based on 48 studies.

vrtnws.be/p.Bl8ayDAkv "Dengue is sterk in opmars. Wereldwijd spreken we over 100-400 miljoen infecties per jaar. Het is dan ook niet verwonderlijk dat we ook bij reizigers een toename van het aantal infecties zien." -Marjan Van Esbroeck, hoofd klinisch laboratorium. @wimdemaeseneer.bsky.social

Exciting news🌟! Yesterday, our alumni were honoured with the Prize for Global Research from Provincie Antwerpen, a well-deserved recognition of their work advancing health equity and innovative solutions. Congrats to our alumni! 👏 Learn about their projects in our webinar series!

🦠 Leprosy cases are declining but still present in Pakistan. A @thelancet.com Global Health paper by Dr Anil Fastenau & Dr Epco Hasker shows how routine data (1980–2022) can help monitor the disease. In August a DHIS-2 training in Antwerp focused on strengthening tracing & analysis to fight leprosy.

Awakened by an itch? It may not be a mosquito, but scabies. Cases are rising fast in Belgium, especially among the youth, in cities & during winter. 🔎Our Outbreak Research Team with @Sciensano & @Departementzorg analyzed trends (2000–2023) to improve diagnosis & treatment. 🔗 Link in first comment

Grateful for the opportunity to lecture again at the #Pandemic Preparedness Summer School of @uantwerpen.be, with my @itmantwerp.bsky.social colleagues @gorikooms.bsky.social and Nicola Deghaye, from an #ethics and #policy angle. Thanks Erika Vlieghe & Annelies Mondelaers

"Een uitbraak is in het begin altijd moeilijk in te schatten. Maar het nationale gezondheidssysteem en zijn internationale partners hebben veel ervaring om zo’n crisis aan te pakken. Er is nu ook een vaccin, wat een wereld van verschil maakt.” - Laurens Liesenborghs www.standaard.be/buitenland/e...

⏲️ Final countdown: one week left to cast your vote for @adwine.bsky.social ➡️ www.newscientist.nl/polls/new-sc...

In this picture you see two Anopheles stephensi mosquito larvae. One is much bigger than the other. Why? And what does this mean for malaria transmission? Find the answer here: www.itg.be/en/health-st... @globalchangebio.bsky.social #climatechange

A very important reflection from @salehaljadeeah.bsky.social and colleagues: #Refugees and asylum seekers in #Europe need a #rights-based approach to the issue of return: insights from the case of the #Syrian displacement. gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...

🎓 From ITM classroom to global recognition: Placide Mbala, alumnus & Congolese virologist shares how an ITM scholarship and a mentor’s advice shaped his career. 🌍 Today, his work is transforming outbreak response, from mpox surveillance to a new viral clade 📖 Read more: www.itg.be/en/health-st...

🦟 Tiger mosquito update (BE): detections in 7 municipalities since May; overwintering in 3. Keep up the good reporting & stay alert, especially if you’re driving back from southern Europe. 📸 Spot one? Report: mosquitosurveillance.be 🤝 @sciensano.be #CitizenScience

@adwine.bsky.social is nominated for @newscientistnl.bsky.social Science Talent 2025! 🏆 Her research shows how mosquitoes grow resistant to insecticides, and how nature, through water beetles, offers a smarter, sustainable solution. 🌿🪲 👉 Help her win: www.newscientist.nl/polls/new-sc...

📱 Android : play.google.com/store/apps/d... 📱 iOS : apps.apple.com/be/app/surve... 🤝 @itmantwerp.bsky.social

Last-mile #pharmaceutical #waste management is a neglected #health, #ecological & #social challenge. Let's act to protect #vulnerable communities & the #environment! @itmantwerp.bsky.social #UWC #UniversityNamibia @salehaljadeeah.bsky.social @belentarrafeta.bsky.social gh.bmj.com/content/10/7...

🦟 Have you spotted a tiger mosquito? 📍 One place to report it: mosquitosurveillance.be 🔍 Let’s track them together!

In the past week, 90 students have finished their studies at ITM, ready to take on global health challenges! To all our graduates: your hard work, resilience, and dedication have brought you here. You're not only graduating. You're joining a powerful global community of changemakers. #ITMAlumni

🦴"I feel like my bones are breaking." That's how bad dengue can be. Meet this rising global threat on our podcast Transmission. 👉 open.spotify.com/show/1V1sqmb...

Open position for an ID modeler @itmantwerp.bsky.social on community-level + healthcare transmission of resistant #AMR bacteria in LRS, working with Clinical Research Unit Nanoro, @esthervk.bsky.social, @bugwonk.bsky.social, KEMRI-wellcome Kilifi, myself,... #IDSky #EpiSky www.itg.be/en/jobs-and-...

📈Dengue is on the rise. Can we outsmart the mosquitoes that spread it? Find the answers in our podcast Transmission. 🎧 www.itg.be/nl/health-st...

#MuggenSurveillance 🦟 | De #tijgermug blijft zich in België verspreiden… en burgerbetrokkenheid is belangrijker dan ooit! 👉 Dankzij jullie meldingen kunnen Sciensano en het @itmantwerp.bsky.social de verspreiding van deze invasieve mug van nabij opvolgen.

🦟 Our MEMO+ project in @brusselstimes.com!

New article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology led by our @itmantwerp.bsky.social statistician Bart KM Jacobs. We describe an extension of the Spiegelhalter-Knill-Jones method allowing the inclusion of continuous covariates. bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Great as always being at @itmantwerp.bsky.social today teaching whole genome sequencing for clinical tuberculosis management to the group of super engaged clinical doctors taking our DR-TB course. So many great questions I tried my best to answer 😅

💣Cutting global health funding doesn’t just stall progress. It actively endangers our future. But there’s still time to act, if we choose to. 👉 www.itg.be/en/health-st... @rravinetto.bsky.social @kristofdecoster.bsky.social @gorikooms.bsky.social

First day of @itmantwerp.bsky.social short course on #Pharmaceutical #Policies in #HealthSystems: @verowirtz.bsky.social introduces the Essential Medicines concept & explores trade-offs between #equity and #efficiency @salehaljadeeah.bsky.social @belentarrafeta.bsky.social @rravinetto.bsky.social

Related - via @itmantwerp.bsky.social www.itg.be/en/health-st... @rravinetto.bsky.social @gorikooms.bsky.social

🚨 Treat global health as global security. The US withdrawal threatens millions more HIV, malaria & TB deaths by 2025. The Global Fund needs replenishment—and reform. Equal representation, fair funding, real partnerships. Time to act! @plosglobalpublichealth.org www.itg.be/en/health-st...

🌈 Today—and every day—we support equality, inclusion, and diversity. Our colleagues listened to: 👉 Michel Malo shared his journey as a refugee who fled Lebanon due to his sexual orientation. 👉 Imran Nawaz, Mister Gay Belgium, spoke about faith, identity, and breaking taboos. #IDAHOT #LoveIsLove

Our 'Short Course in Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine' @itmantwerp.bsky.social closes today with students presenting their research proposals to an external jury! Proud to see such innovative ideas from young researchers after 4 intensive weeks! #ClinicalResearch #EBM