About Universiteit Leiden
As GHH partner, the university is engaged in research, education and collaboration around global health themes:
- Health equity & health policy
- Climate change, resilience, education & health
- Maternal & child health
- AI in health & ethical partnerships (innovation)
The partnership with GHH offers multiple opportunities for both faculty & students and other organizations:
- Research collaborations with NGO’s & policy institutions
- Internships
- Involvement in global health work
The university offers education & research programmes in global public health, health systems, policy, SRHR (sexual & reproductive health & rights), global health vs environment.
Collaborations GHH-partners
- Access to Medicine Foundation: manager was a guest lecturer at Leiden Early Drug Discovery & Development (LED3)/Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LUCID).
- TU Delft: part of strategic LDE alliance (Leiden, Delft, Erasmus) – covering research & education. Part of ‘Global Women’s Health’ community.
- Erasmus MC: part of LDE alliance
- Amsterdam UMC: partners in InFECT-NL research hub.
- Radboudumc: InFECT-NL
- Philips: R&D collaboration, through LUMC-Philips AI-lab. Part of ROBUST-programme to accelerate MRI using AI.
- Aidsfonds: funded psychologists’trial and rollout of online self-help programme to reduce depressive symptoms among HIV-patients.
- IFMSA-NL: active collaborations in education & outreach (course credit for IFMSA International Lab Orientation & Teddy Bear Hospital in LUMC)
- Lygature: multiple projects: DTECT-Schisto(developing fast and simple antibody tests for diagnosing schistosomiasis) & Oncode Accelerator (innovating cancer treatment processes)
- Health~Holland, ZonMw: cofounder TIMED trial together with Amsterdam UMC, researching effects of timing of lifestyle factors on meridian rhythm and diabetes.
- KIT: collaboration via Leiden University Libraries: acquisition, curation and public access to KIT’s collections.
Overview characteristics
Active in countries
Netherlands:
- InFECT-NL: early-clinical platform for medication for infectious diseases (programme with LUMC, Amsterdam UMC, Radboudumc, UMC Utrecht, CHDR; ZonMw-funded)
- Leiden Controlled Human Infection Center (L-CHIC): researchcenter at LUMC
- Green healthcare / global women’s health thesis labs: together with Medical Delta: education + research on sustainable care & women’s health.
- Hague Climate Agreement Partnership: partnership to accelerate regional climate transition (together with TU Delft, TNO, GGD Haaglanden).
- Part of LDE: Leiden Delft Erasmus
Indonesia:
- INUCoST (Indonesia-Netherlands Universities Consortium on Sustainable Futures): joint projects on health, digitalization, sustainable urban development.
- Future Challenges Lab (minor): fieldwork-oriented programme on energy-food-water-public health in quickly urbanizing Indonesia.
Botswana:
- HIV online self-help programme: see also partnership with Aidsfonds.
Community of practice (CoP)
- CoP1: Strengthening Health Systems
- CoP3: Pandemic Preparedness
Organization type:
Knowledge instituut/ research centre
Available resources
- Knowledge & expertise: education on global health – major Global Health, Innovation & Society, research on health systems & global health – major Global Public Health
- Networks: Campus The Hague & Leiden collaborations with policy-oriented actors (BuZa, VWS, DJI)
- Influence/agenda setting: membership Planetary Health Alliance gives access to agenda-setting forums
- Financial leverage/access to funding: University Leiden got multiple funded projects. Examples:
- ENKORE, funded by IHI (develop an eco-design framework for single use medical devices & packaging)
- EU 1.5 degrees Lifestyles, funded by Horizon 2020 (research how lifestyle shifts can meet the climate goal and their health co-benefits.
- Coordination & platform capability: Centre for Governance of Sustainability works across hubs, cities and governance on several projects, implying coordination-skills.