Hub Management Team

The Society for Insurance Science and Design (GVG) invites stakeholders from politics, academia, and practice to the Health Goals Conference 2026 in Berlin. The conference will explore how prevention and health promotion contribute to society, the welfare state, and the economy, highlighting the importance of integrating health across all policy areas. 🩺🌍

The programme features a scientific keynote, a panel discussion with experts, and insights into current priorities of the Health Goals Forum, including loneliness, health around birth, and the further development of national health goals. A networking reception will provide opportunities for exchange and collaboration. 🤝

📅 Date: Thursday, 3 December 2026
🕒 Time: 3:00–7:00 pm (admission from 2:30 pm)
📍 Venue: Humboldt Graduate School, Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin, Germany
🏛️ Organizer: Society for Insurance Science and Design (GVG), Forum Gesundheitsziele
💶 Participation: Free of charge

🔗 Registration: https://pretix.eu/GVG/GZKonferenz2026/

The conference offers an opportunity to exchange perspectives and explore how stronger prevention and health promotion can help shape a healthier and more sustainable future.

The Hospital Partnerships Alliance (HPA) invites early-career health professionals to join a virtual session introducing its global platform for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and capacity building. The session will provide an opportunity to learn about HPA membership benefits, explore initiatives such as the Global Innovation Challenge, and connect with peers across countries and health disciplines to foster impactful partnerships. 

🎤 Featured Speaker: Dr. med. Nellie Valerie Tayo Bell, Consultant Paediatrician, Vice Chair of HPA, and President of the Paediatric Association of Sierra Leone. 

📅 Date: Wednesday, 4 November 2026 

🕑 Time: 2:00–3:30 PM CET (Berlin) 

💻 Language: English 

The session is open to early-career professionals across the health sector, including clinical and allied health professions, public health, research, policy, administration, and the private sector. No prior hospital partnership experience or HPA membership is required. 

On 9 November 2026, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin will host a dialogue event exploring how diversity-oriented and patient-centred healthcare can be sustainably embedded in healthcare structures and everyday clinical practice. The event will bring together perspectives from healthcare, research, counselling, patients, and communities to discuss practical approaches to making healthcare more inclusive, equitable, and responsive to diverse needs. 🌍🤝

The programme will feature a presentation by Hürrem Tezcan-Güntekin from Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences on racism in healthcare and recommendations for action in inpatient healthcare settings. Further contributions will be delivered by Desislava Dimitrova, Bahar Naghavi, Simone Prengel, and Isabell Knispel from Charité’s EMPDIV Steering Committee. The event will conclude with an informal networking reception, offering participants an opportunity to exchange ideas and build connections. 💬✨

📅 Date: 9 November 2026
🕠 Time: 5:30–8:30 p.m.
📍 Location: Hörsaalruine, Charité Campus Mitte, Virchowweg 16, 10117 Berlin, Germany
👥 Audience: Healthcare professionals, researchers, counsellors, patients, and community representatives

The 1st German Health Resilience Conference will take place as part of MEDICA 2026 in Düsseldorf, bringing together experts and decision-makers from healthcare, politics, science, industry, civil protection, and disaster management. The conference aims to develop practical strategies to strengthen the resilience of healthcare systems and ensure reliable medical care during crises and emergencies. 🌍🤝

Across four days, the programme will address key challenges, including hospital preparedness, crisis and disaster management, cybersecurity, the protection of critical infrastructure, and the resilience of outpatient care, pharmacies, laboratories, and nursing facilities. Through expert presentations and interdisciplinary discussions, participants will exchange experiences and explore actionable solutions for maintaining healthcare services under exceptional circumstances. 🔬🛡️

📅 Date: 16–19 November 2026
📍 Location: Messe Düsseldorf, Hall 11, Düsseldorf, Germany
🌐 Language: German
🎟️ Participation: MEDICA admission ticket required (€59 for a day ticket or €185 for a season ticket, including access to MEDICA and COMPAMED)
👥 Audience: Healthcare professionals, policymakers, researchers, industry representatives, and crisis management experts
🔗 Programme and registration: https://www.medica.de/de/Programm/Konferenzen/german-health-resilience-conference#2

The Charité Center for Global Health (CCGH) will host an Industry Dialogue on Vaccines on 12 November 2026 in Berlin, bringing together academic researchers, global health experts, and representatives from six vaccine manufacturers. The event will explore recent advances, current developments, and future opportunities in vaccine research, innovation, and implementation in Germany and worldwide. 🌍🔬

Through expert presentations and panel discussions, participants will exchange perspectives on emerging vaccine technologies, including mRNA vaccines, respiratory vaccines, immunisation strategies, vaccine effectiveness, and the translation of scientific evidence into public health policy. The event will also showcase research conducted at Charité and encourage collaboration between academia, industry, and global health policy stakeholders. 🤝

📅 Date: 12 November 2026
🕘 Time: 8:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Hörsaalruine, Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin
🌐 Language: English
👥 Audience: Researchers, global health professionals, vaccine industry representatives, and policymakers
🔗 Agenda and registration: https://vaccevent.ccgh-idd.de/#agenda

Please note: Attendance is subject to approval by the CCGH team, and registering interest does not guarantee a place.

The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), in collaboration with INFo↔P, will host a symposium exploring the role of implementation science, health equity, and global health on 4 December 2026 in Hamburg. The event will bring together experts from research, health policy, funding organisations, and patient advocacy to exchange perspectives through expert presentations, a panel discussion, and an interactive workshop. 🔬🤝

The symposium will provide a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue on implementation challenges and approaches to translating research into practice, with a focus on equity in global health. The event will be conducted in English and is open to both in-person and online participants.

📅 Date: 4 December 2026
🕘 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany
💻 Format: Hybrid (in-person and online)
🌐 Language: English
💰 Participation: Free of charge
🔗 Registration: https://redcap-itcb.bibbox.bnitm.de/surveys/?s=R7H3TDWYRX77WJH9

The Health Services Research Platform at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin brings together researchers, healthcare professionals, and other stakeholders to explore current challenges and innovations in healthcare delivery. Through its lecture series, Current Topics in Health Services Research, and methodological workshops, the platform promotes scientific exchange and evidence-based approaches to improving healthcare quality, accessibility, and efficiency. 🔬📊

Upcoming events in the winter semester 2026/27 will address topics such as the electronic patient record, health literacy, the use of health insurance routine data, and the impact of GP-centred care on quality and cost-effectiveness.

📅 Upcoming dates: 25 November and 15 December 2026, followed by 27 January and 3 February 2027
💻 Format: Online via Microsoft Teams for the lecture series
🌐 Audience: Researchers and healthcare professionals
🔗 Programme and registration: https://versorgungsforschung.charite.de/ueber_die_plattform/veranstaltungen/

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is offering its Infectious Disease Epidemiology course during the winter semester 2026/27. Running from 22 October 2026 to 18 February 2027, this free online course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to infectious disease epidemiology, covering pathogen transmission, disease surveillance, outbreak response, prevention strategies, vaccination programmes, and antimicrobial resistance. 🔬📊

The course is delivered in English via WebEx and is aimed primarily at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, doctoral candidates, and other interested participants. Sessions take place on Thursdays from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

📅 Duration: 22 October 2026 – 18 February 2027
💻 Format: Online
🌐 Language: English
🔗 Registration and further information: https://www.rki.de/EN/News/Events-and-dates/Event-series/Infectious-Disease-Epidemiology/rki-course-infectious-disease-epidemiology-node.html

We warmly invite you to our upcoming webinar "Food Systems under Pressure" on October 27, 15:00-16:15 CET as part of our new webinar series "Connecting Climate Change and Health".

Climate change is undermining food systems worldwide: droughts, floods and heat reduce harvests, disrupt supply chains and drive up food prices. The health consequences are severe, ranging from acute malnutrition in drought-affected regions such as the Horn of Africa to an increased risk of food-borne diseases and a growing burden of diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The webinar will therefore explore how we can build food systems that are resilient and sustainable in order to protect nutrition and health.

Agenda

• 15:00–15:10 Welcome and introduction to the webinar series
• 15:10–15:20 Input 1 - Climate Change & Food Security: Risks and Solution Pathways
• 15:20–15:30 Input 2 - Healthy, Climate-Resilient Diets: Benefits, Challenges and Potentials
• 15:30–15:40 Input 3 - Extreme Weather Events and Malnutrition: Heath Impacts on the Ground
• 15:40–16:10 Moderated Q&A
• 16:10–16:15 Summary and Closing

Speakers

• Dr. Christine Chemnitz, Director, Agora Agrar
• Dr. Marco Springmann, Senior Researcher in Environment and Health, Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford and Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Global Health, University College London
• Alina Seebacher, Advocacy Officer Climate, Food Security & Health, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Germany

Register here:

https://live.invitario.com/en/deutsche-globale-gesundheitspolitik-webinar-series-connecting-climate-change-and-health-food-systems-under-pressure/registration

Please note:
The webinar will be recorded. If you do not wish to appear in the recording, you are welcome to keep your camera turned off.

We look forward to your participation and to an engaging discussion.

Speaker
Stéphanie van de Werve
Co-founder, Thémis

Stéphanie van de Werve co-founded Thémis with Fatoumata Ly, out of the strong belief that women’s health was missing an infrastructure. Before that, she spent 15 years developing programmes in foundations and think tanks (Institut Montaigne, Tony Blair Institute, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace). Her work has focused on turning research and policy into strategies that get results. 

Founded in 2025, Thémis is a pan-European influence platform to integrate women’s health into every public and economic decision. Its mission is to make women’s health a core metric of public policy and economic development by 2035. Thémis works across five areas: citizen participation, measurement through the Women’s Health Index, research, policy translation, and culture change.

The input will be followed by a Q&A, so we hope to see many of you there

Have you ever travelled through time? 
If not, you can come and join us in Berlin for our simulation exercise “Critical Choices Beyond the Pathogen”, jointly developed by the Global Health Hub Germany and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Why join?
Take this opportunity to travel through time to infectious disease outbreaks of the past and take crucial decisions, making or breaking social cohesion, public trust and mental wellbeing. Learn why MHPSS in pandemics has and always will be a crucial part of handling disease outbreaks! 

Date: 12 October 2026 
Time: 01:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Location: Pullman Berlin Schweizerhof 
(Budapester Str. 25, 10787 Berlin, right across from WHS location, no WHS ticket needed)

Discuss with our experts: 
Prof. Dr Klaus Lieb (Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research), Dr Marcelo Pelajo Machado (Fiocruz) & Asha Mutesi Rajab (Youth Community Health Worker) in a panel discussion reflecting the lessons learned and the importance of social dimensions in pandemic preparedness.

Register here: https://live.invitario.com/en/critical-choices-beyond-the-pathogen-the-social-dimension-of-pandemics

On 13 October 2026, the Medical School Brandenburg (MHB) will host a public panel discussion exploring how health equity is shaped by structural inequality, healthcare systems, migration, and global health policies.

The discussion will bring together international and regional perspectives from medicine, medical anthropology, global health, and community health, connecting experiences of healthcare in Brandenburg with broader questions of equity, solidarity, and responsibility. 🩺🌎

The event takes place from 5:00–7:00 pm at the MHB Campus in Brandenburg an der Havel and is also available online. Admission is free, and participants are invited to stay for an informal get-together with refreshments afterwards. 🤝

Register here: https://www.mhb-fontane.de/de/veranstaltungsdetails?id=1019&utm_source=chatgpt.com 

The event brings together experts from healthcare practice, research, policy, public health, health insurance and other fields to discuss the future of primary care in Germany. 🌍

The programme will explore international experiences, especially from Austria, interprofessional teamwork, lessons from the NAVIGATION model projects in Berlin and Hamburg, and the structural and political conditions needed to establish Primary Care Centres as part of regular healthcare provision.

💬 Through expert talks, panels and discussions, the conference offers a space for interdisciplinary exchange and for exploring how primary care can become more integrated, accessible and community-oriented.

📅 8 October 2026 | 10:00–16:30
📍 Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin
💶 Participation fee: €35
👥 Places are limited to 200 participants.

This event will be held in German.

Registration is available online via the event website here: https://aufbruch-primaerversorgung.de/#anmeldung

🎬 When it’s time to deliver, can health systems too?

Dear All, on the occasion of the World Health Summit 2026, we are pleased to invite you to a special side event in Berlin, bringing together film, evidence and dialogue to explore women’s health, safe and dignified birth, WASH, Universal Health Coverage and resilient health systems. 🌍💧

The event will consist of two parts: 

Part 1 | 11:00–12:15 – Panel & Political Dialogue 

A high-level discussion bringing together perspectives from midwifery, politics, global health and practice. Together, we will explore what health systems need to provide safe, dignified and quality care – and how maternal health, WASH, Universal Health Coverage and resilient health systems can be better connected. 

Evidence from WaterAid’s recent Born Without Water study will bring particular attention to a fundamental but too often overlooked part of quality healthcare: safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in healthcare facilities. 

Part 2 | 12:20–14:00 – Film Screening of WISE WOMEN 

For those who would like to stay, we will screen Nicole Scherg’s documentary WISE WOMEN, which follows five midwives working in Ethiopia, Morocco, Nepal, Austria and Brazil. Director Nicole Scherg will join us in person. 

You are very welcome to join us for the panel discussion only – participation in the film screening is optional. The event will be held in English. Coffee and networking from 10:30. 

📅 11 October 2026 | 11:00–14:00
📍 delphi LUX Cinema, Berlin
☕ Doors open at 10:30 for coffee and networking

Link to register below

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) offers the English-language course “Infectious Disease Epidemiology”, providing participants with a theoretical and practical introduction to the aims and responsibilities of infectious disease epidemiology and its links to laboratory and clinical practice. 🔬

Through lectures and interactive exercises, participants will explore key topics including pathogen transmission dynamics, disease surveillance, prevention and control strategies, epidemiological research, study design, and statistical analysis. The course uses a range of infectious diseases—including sexually transmitted, vaccine-preventable, hospital-acquired, respiratory, and gastrointestinal infections—as practical examples.

🎓 The course is open free of charge to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as guests. Participants who attend regularly will receive a certificate of attendance.

Register here: https://rki.webex.com/webappng/sites/rki/webinar/webinarSeries/register/a422356ec11843d488049348ce78e320

The GLOHRA Scientific Workshop will bring together researchers and health professionals to examine the often-overlooked perspectives and experiences of Eastern Europe in global health debates. The workshop will explore the sociopolitical factors behind the European East–West health divide, including migration, resource inequalities, healthcare disparities, and the region’s connections with societies in the Global South. 🤝

The two-day event will also discuss approaches to epistemic justice and addressing persistent health inequities, while strengthening interdisciplinary and transregional networks working on health in Eastern Europe. 🌱📚

📅 29–30 October 2026
📍 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, CCO – Auditorium
💻 Hybrid format
🎟️ Free participation | Registration deadline: 9 October 2026

The workshop is particularly relevant for early-career and senior researchers, as well as health professionals working on European and global health inequalities.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKnuHjTqWS_f4THNa9Vc8Fo2wNqRQjkuYYKSTq_Eyv3C4_cQ/viewform?pli=1

The Global Health Academy and the Global Health Educators Community (GHECo) invite curriculum developers, programme coordinators, teachers, trainers, and supervisors to an online dialogue on the Catalogue of Competencies in Global Health Research. The session will explore how the catalogue can be applied to strengthen curriculum design, research training, and supervisor development at doctoral and postdoctoral level, both in Germany and internationally. 📚

Participants will also discuss the benefits of a competency-based approach and how the catalogue can inform the development of global health education and training programmes. 💬🤝

📅 24 September 2026 | 17:00–18:30 CET
💻 Online via Zoom
🎯 Target group: Global health educators, curriculum developers, programme coordinators, trainers, and supervisors.

Register here: https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/S6OENdCuTBeweAieGdkohA

The Centre for Planetary Health Policy (CPHP) invites participants to discuss how Germany can implement the new EU Air Quality Directive and achieve healthier air. The dialogue will explore the health impacts of air pollution, current challenges in implementation, and pathways towards meeting the new air-quality standards. 🫁🌍

The event brings together perspectives from science, policy, and practice to discuss how stronger air-quality measures can benefit both public health and environmental protection. 💬🤝

📌 Focus: Implementation of the new EU Air Quality Directive in Germany
🌱 Topic: Cleaner air, better health, and planetary health

🗣️ Language: The event will be held in German.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Zx2CerbpSsCFIKXqAmUtOw