About NVTG
Dutch Society for Global Health (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Tropische Geneeskunde). To strengthen health care in LMIC’s. To improve academic research and education on global health and tropical health care.
Core strategies:
- Being a platform: bringing professionals together, networking, knowledge exchange
- Science & Research: promoting research & education in global health
- Advocacy: raising awareness where human rights or access to quality health care are hindered or otherwise difficult
- Education: overseeing and supporting appropriate training/professional education in global health & tropical medicine
Collaborations with GHH-partners
- KCGH: joint universal code of conduct (together with KCGH-NSGH-OIGT)
- OIGT: works with NVTG on training & curriculum
- Aidsfonds, Amref, Cordaid, KIT, KNCVtbc, PharmAccess, Wemos: joint advocacy in DGHA
Overview of characteristics
Active in countries:
Bangladesh: Project page on family caregivers at Chittagong Medical College Hospital
Malawi, Uganda, Ghana, Indonesia, Peru, Philippines, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Congo: WOO-NOV (Werkgroep Orthopedie Overzee); work group tropical orthopedics and traumatology: training & educating doctors and surgeons, organizing events & presentations.
India, Surinam, Malawi: volunteering opportunities in hospitals (doctor neonatology or gynaecology)
CoP (Community of practice):
CoP1: Strenghtening Health Systems (Co Lead)
CoP2: Pandemic Preparedness (Co Lead)
Themes and subthemes within CoP:
General themes are: Improving health and health equity globally; research, education and knowledge exchange in global health & tropical medicine.
Subthemes CoP1: Emphasis on access to primary care/health equity; planetary health adds dimension to health systems resilience. Concluding: research & professional network, emphasizing equity, capacity building & system effectiveness.
Subthemes CoP2: Emphasis on planetary health ties into zoonotic disease threat(s) and cross-border health threats. Concluding: both access-equity and assessing/tackling structural drivers of pandemics.
Type of organization:
knowledge institute
Available resources:
- Knowledge & expertise: an association with 750 professionals as members, including clinical doctors, researchers, and more. All working in global health and or tropical medicine. Specifically in areas like: family medicine, child health, maternal health.
- Networks: closely collaborating with Knowledge Centre Global Health and OIGT
- Education/training; offers educational programmes via OIGT; publishes quarterly journal for publishing research & practician articles
- Advocacy & policy influence: as part of Global Health Pact
- Working group infrastructure: EZONN, EKANN, NSIENTS, IFHHRO, DCHN, TROIE, ISM&RH, and more