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health care domain in developing countries.The Rotterdam Global Health Initiative willactually be launched in 2011.Several iBMG researchers distinguishedthemselves personally. Through a one-yearfellowship of the Netherlands Institute forAdvances Study in the Humanities and SocialSciences (NIAS), Marleen Foets was able tostudy the extent to which current ethnicdisparities in access to health care might beexplained by social and cultural mechanisms.Antoinette de Bont was awarded aprestigious Harkness Fellowship of TheCommonwealth Fund, which allowed her toperform research at Kaiser Permanente inthe United States of America for one year,together with leading American experts inthe field of health care research. André denExter and Mahsa Ghari qualified for anErasmus Mundus Erasmus-Columbus 2013(ERACOL) grant. They both went to Panamaand studied possibilities to improvepublic health in Latin America. Having beenawarded the Dutch SoFoKles grant, bachelorstudents Anisma Gokoel and Zeynep Yildizwere able to gain more research experiencewithin iBMG.A number of researchers were recipientsof prestigious research prizes in 2009 and2010. Pepijn Vemer, Margreet Franken andAnnemieke Leunis received the prize for“Best New Investigator Research PodiumPresentation” of the International Societyfor Pharmacoeconomics and OutcomesResearch (ISPOR). Laura Burgers wasawarded the prize for “Best NewInvestigator Research Presentation”and Maureen Rutten-van Mölken receivedthe “ISPOR Award for Excellence inApplication of Pharmacoeconomics andHealth Outcomes Research.”10