I look forward to contribute to global health by co-leading the global health program of APH with Marianne van Elteren. Global health is key to any public health program and I hope to connect with other APH programs and across the Amsterdam UMC research institutes.
Constance Schultsz is a clinical microbiologist, Professor of Global Health and Head of the department of Global Health of Amsterdam UMC. She spent several years doing research at the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh as medical student, and at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases - Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam as a clinical microbiologist.
The research in Constance’s group aims to drive changes in the prevention and management of bacterial infections, to improve global health. The research focuses on antimicrobial drug resistance and zoonotic infections. Within the antimicrobial resistance program, research is targeted at understanding mechanisms and routes of transmission of antimicrobial resistance determinants,and the development and application ofnovel tools for antimicrobial resistance surveillance.Streptococcus suis, an important swine pathogen and the main cause of bacterial meningitis in adults in countries ofthe Far East such as Vietnam and Thailand, is used as a model pathogen to study the emergence of zoonotic bacterial infections through livestock and food production.
Research approaches are both laboratory-based and interdisciplinary and studies are carried out with collaborating research fellows within the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, within the Netherlands Centre for One Health, and with overseas research partners and institutes.