ZIG-Talk: Fabiana Lorencatto – What is the benefit of applying behavioural science to global health implementation?

Location: Online via WebEx Webinar (no physical meeting)

Speaker: Fabiana Lorencatto, University College London

Online participation is possible without registration. If you need a confirmation of participation, please contact ZIG-Talks@rki.de beforehand.

Liebe Frauen,

Das nächste Women in Global Health Germany Netzwerktreffen / Annual Meeting findet am Freitag, 21. Juni 2024 in Berlin von 10-16h in Präsenz statt.

Für das diesjährige  Netzwerktreffen /Annual Meeting gibt es wieder die Möglichkeit einer aktiven Teilnahme von Frauen aus dem Netzwerk im Rahmen einer 5-minütigen Kurzintervention für die Paneldiskussion “Frauengesundheit über die Lebensspanne – Fokus Ageing Women”.

Für das Panel werden 3 Diskutant*innen ausgewählt. Bitte verwenden Sie für die Einreichung Ihrer Kurz-Intervention das Dokument im Anhang. 

Wir freuen uns auf interessante und innovative Beiträge bis zum 09. April 2024!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Sabine Ludwig, Nora Anton, Delia Strunz, Constanze Brinckmann, Sophie Gepp

Von der »wandernden Gebärmutter« über die »Hysterie« bis hin zum sich nur äußerst langsam wandelnden Verständnis für chronische Erkrankungen wie Endometriose: Das Verhältnis von Frauengesundheit und Medizin blickt auf eine erschütternde Geschichte. Die immer noch weit verbreitete Unkenntnis weiblicher Gesundheitsthemen liegt maßgeblich an mangelnden Daten weiblicher Patientinnen („gender data gap“), auch da Frauen in klinischen Studien unverhältnismäßig selten Probandinnen sind. Digitale Tools, beispielsweise für das Menstruations-Tracking, zur Verhütung, in der Schwangerschaft oder in der Perimeno- und Menopause, die von Frauen zunehmend genutzt werden, können ein erster Ausweg aus dem gender data gap sein. Es stellt sich demnach die Frage, inwiefern Datennutzung und digitale Lösungen das Potential haben, ein Katalysator für eine gendersensible Medizin zu sein.

Unsere gemeinsame Veranstaltung „Frauengesundheit endlich im Fokus: Werden digitale Anwendungen der Durchbruch für gendersensible Medizin sein?“ von Taylor Wessing und BVMed e.V. widmet sich dem Status Quo, den künftigen Möglichkeiten und notwendigen Voraussetzungen für den Einsatz von Digital Health in der Gendermedizin.

Moderiert wird die Veranstaltung von Natalie Gladkov (BVMed e.V.). 

Hier über die Webseite von TaylorWessing anmelden.

Join us for the BARDA VITAL Global Health Security Symposium at the Rahel Hirsch Center for Translational Medicine in Berlin — an exciting event focused on visionary advancements in pandemic preparedness and response, vaccine and therapeutics innovation, and medical countermeasures aimed at enhancing pandemic preparedness and response for a safer future.

This dynamic symposium features invaluable networking opportunity, inspiring talks, and exciting company pitches. Connect with leading experts, researchers, and professionals from both sides of the Atlantic to explore the latest discoveries and strategies in preventing and addressing global health crises.

Join us for this engaging and insightful event that brings together key stakeholders in healthcare and innovation. Whether you're a startup, academic institution, or industry expert, this symposium invites you to explore cutting-edge solutions and connect with members of the U.S. and EU therapeutics and vaccine innovation community.

In healthcare, GenAI holds immense promise for revolutionizing medical research, diagnosis and treatment. But how can GenAI be utilized in the case of Real-World Evidence (RWE)? And to what extent can one leverage this technology effectively to enhance trial efficiency, improve data analysis capabilities and drive meaningful discoveries?

In our Climedo Connect on June 27, 2024, Dragan Mileski (Co-Founder and CTO of Climedo) will explore how to meaningfully apply GenAI across the field of clinical trials, with a specific focus on RWE. 

What to expect: 

• Understanding GenAI: Explore the fundamentals of GenAI, including emerging trends and technology outlook, to grasp its potential in transforming RWE studies.
• Top use cases for GenAI in post-market studies: Dive into the practical applications of GenAI in post-market studies, examining its role in drug safety monitoring, comparative effectiveness analysis and more.
• Best practices for incorporating GenAI in clinical research: Learn actionable strategies and best practices for seamlessly integrating GenAI into your trials. 

Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and contribute to the discussion on enhancing collaboration between trial physicians, sponsors, and CROs in clinical trials.

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

die Verbesserung der Gesundheitsversorgung von Frauen weltweit steht im Fokus unserer Veranstaltung. Bisher lag der Schwerpunkt multilateraler Programme und der Allokation von Forschungsmitteln oft auf der sexuellen und reproduktiven Gesundheit. Es ist jedoch entscheidend, eine ganzheitlichere Perspektive einzunehmen, die das gesamte Spektrum der Gesundheitsthemen von Frauen einschließt. In diesem Zusammenhang haben zahlreiche Akteure aus der Zivilgesellschaft und der Gesundheitswirtschaft bereits innovative Maßnahmen ergriffen und strategische Partnerschaften geschlossen, um die Gesundheit von Frauen zu verbessern. Gemeinsam möchten wir mit Ihnen verschiedene Lösungsansätze diskutieren und erörtern, wie Deutschland aktiv zu diesem wichtigen Thema beitragen kann.

Die GHA – German Health Alliance lädt Sie dazu recht herzlich zu einem multisektoralen Austausch unter der Schirmherrschaft von Herrn Dr. Georg Kippels, MdB, ein.

Montag, den 01.07.2024, 16 – 18 Uhr

im Paul-Löbe-Haus, Saal 4 400

Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin

Bitte merken Sie sich den Termin vor!

Herzliche Grüße,

Rajani Sabanantham

The field of health policy and systems research (HPSR) seeks to understand and improve how societies organize themselves in achieving collective health goals, and how different actors interact in the policy and implementation processes to contribute to policy outcomes. Interdisciplinary by nature, HPSR aims to provide a comprehensive picture of how health systems respond and adapt to health policies, and how health policies can shape − and be shaped by − health systems and the broader determinants of health. 

This webinar aims to highlight several current initiatives related to health policy and systems research in Germany, and to discuss and explore entry points for strengthening collaboration and partnerships for advancing HPSR within Germany and with international institutions. 

The webinar is jointly organized by the German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA); the Department of Population Medicine and Health Services Research (AG2) in the School of Public Health at Bielefeld University; and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, an international partnership hosted by the World Health Organization (The Alliance).

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7GL7mllETgeyFC6cagUsmw#/registration

Auf der dritten „digital health & care“ wollen wir uns gemeinsam mit Bürger*innen und pflegenden Angehörigen, mit Vertreter*innen von Pflegeeinrichtungen bzw. -diensten und ihren Beschäftigten, mit Akteur*innen der Pflegeausbildung und der angewandten Pflegewissenschaft sowie mit Start-ups und Unternehmen aus dem Bereich „Digital Healthcare“ aktiv darüber austauschen, welche neue Möglichkeiten die Digitalisierung für die Pflege bietet.

Dafür haben wir in Co-Creation mit Start-ups, dem LMU-Klinikum, der „Wir! Stiftung pflegender Angehöriger“ und weiteren Expert*innen aus dem Bereich Gesundheit und Pflege ein gemeinsames interaktives Programm für unsere dritte Konferenz entwickelt.

Im Fokus stehen diesmal digitale Lern- und Arbeitshilfen zur Unterstützung von Pflegenden. Verschiedene Facetten und Levels der Pflegeanforderungen sollen differenziert beleuchtet werden – von der theoretischen Wissensvermittlung bis zum praxisnahen Anleitungsleitfäden, vom beruflichen Ausbildungsbereich der Pflege bis zur akademischen Pflegewissenschaft, von niederschwelligen Beratungs-, Anlern-, und Umschulungsangeboten bis hin zu spezialisierten Austauschmöglichkeiten für Fachdiskurse. Dabei wird auch die Frage berührt, wie Potenziale der Digitalisierung gehoben werden können, um die Attraktivität der Pflegeberufe zu steigern.

Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt bildet die Frage, wie digitale Lösungen dazu beitragen können, den Bereich der professionellen Pflege stärker mit der häuslichen Pflege durch pflegende An- und Zugehörige zu verknüpfen. Denn angesichts des Anteils der häuslichen Pflege von ca. zwei Dritteln an der Gesamtversorgung darf der Unterstützungsbedarf der pflegenden An- und Zugehörigen nicht vergessen werden. Beide Seiten können wechselseitig voneinander lernen und digitale Technik kann diesen Austausch in vielfältiger Weise erleichtern und begleiten – beispielsweise durch digitale Kommunikationskanäle und Koordinationstools für Assistenz- und Fachpersonal, im Rahmen von Übersetzungs- und Erklärhilfen von Fachliteratur oder in Form von digital bzw. VR/AR-vermittelter Live-Unterstützung für die häusliche Pflege.

Die gesamte Veranstaltung wird von Gebärdendolmetscher*innen (DSG) begleitet.

Join for this month’s session of the TUM Global Health Talk speaker series on July 23rd, 2024, featuring our distinguished guest speaker Dr. John Amuasi presenting his work on “Research in Ghana: Introducing the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research”.

For online participation, please register here:
https://lnkd.in/eC_HW-mi

Don't miss the opportunity to discuss and explore this topic with Dr. John Amuasi, who leads impactful research on neglected tropical diseases and antimicrobial resistance in Ghana.

CEPI, Brazil’s Ministry of Health and Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) will co-host a unique global gathering of pandemic preparedness and response experts to advance the global pandemic preparedness agenda.

The Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit 2024, taking place on 29/30 July in Rio de Janeiro, will convene R&D experts, government officials, civil society representatives, and leaders from global health and industry organizations from around the world.

Building on the learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Summit will focus on three central themes of the global pandemic preparedness agenda that, if designed and aligned in a complementary manner, could transform the world’s ability to respond quickly and equitably to the next Disease X:

• Enabling equitable access to vaccines, medicines and other health technologies through strengthening local and regional production capacity.
• Delivering the 100 Days Mission for vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics.
• Enhancing global disease surveillance.

Partners at FIND, the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Unitaid, and the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence are contributing to the design of the Summit programme. The Summit will be livestreamed, and the proceedings, outcomes and recommendations will be published and delivered to global decision-makers to support international pandemic preparedness efforts.

• Symposium submission deadline: 19 January 2024 


• Abstract submission deadline: 23 February 2024 


• Early bird deadline and author registration deadline: 15 May 2024 


• Registration deadline: 9 August 2024

Location: Robert Koch Institute, Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin, lecture hall, and online via WebEx Webinar (hybrid)

Speaker: Dr Chinwe Ochu, Dr Obinna J. Eze, Michael Okali, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
Join this hybrid ZIG-Talk and discuss with Dr Chinwe Ochu, Dr Obinna J. Eze, Michael Okali !

Online participation is possible without registration. If you need a confirmation of participation, please contact ZIG-Talks@rki.de beforehand.

The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence and the Charité Center for Global Health cordially invite you to join us in person or online for the next session of our Speaker Series "Protecting the World: Moving Rapidly Together" on 22 August 2024, 6:00 to 8:00 pm (CET). 

Speaker Series N°8 – Harnessing Contextual Insights for Better Public Health Intelligence

• Time: 22 August, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm (CET)
  (Kindly note that on-site registration opens from 6:00 pm, and the event starts at 6:30 pm.)
  

• Location: WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, Prinzessinnenstraße 17/18, 10969 Berlin & Digital via WHO YouTube Channel

Dear all, 

Our next community meeting will take place Friday, August 30^th at 11am-12.30pm BST (12:00-13:30 Uhr Berlin/Bonn). It is my pleasure to invite all of you warmly for this very special community event, where we will welcome colleagues from Imperial College London!

Jess Newberry Le Vay and her colleagues will share her insights on a fantastic global effort on Climate Change and Mental Health, the CONNECTING CLIMATE MINDS project: https://www.connectingclimateminds.org/

"Connecting Climate Minds is working to foster connections between people all over the world to come together to understand and respond to the deep interconnections between climate change and mental health"

We will start with insights from our own COMMUNITY PAPER which we created and published earlier this year, originating in a brief for the Federal Government: https://community.globalhealthhub.de/index.php/en/stream/item/2422

We invited Jess and her colleagues to our meeting to:

• identify overlapping interests and
• opportunities for future collaboration.

Please join us next week for this very special event! 

PW for the meeting room: wll8yr

Guest Speaker: Dr. Ahmed Abd El Wahed (view profile in Research Directory)
Topic: Global One Health: Time to think differently!
Registration: https://uni-ms.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u5Itce6orT4sHdNH-vh9h8LZ4WWYTNVPDRxj

The Series directs special attention towards the added value of interdisciplinary and international cooperation in global health research. Every first Tuesday of the month, speakers share insights into their research projects while focusing on research processes, methods as well as lessons learned. Following the 30-minute speaker’s presentation, the Series encourages an academic exchange between the speaker and the audience in a 30-minute Q&A session.

In this edition of the GLOHRA Academy Series, Dr. Ahmed Abd El Wahed will introduce innovative approaches to think and tackle global One Health challenges. He is the lab head at the Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health at Universität Leipzig and coordinator of an EDCTP-funded project to implement rapid diagnostics of emerging diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa. His extensive knowledge and experience in the field of infectious disease will inform his talk on Global One Health as an integrated approach to promoting human and animal health.

The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany and the Stiftung Deutsches Meeresmuseum, Stralsund, Germany are delighted to host the 15th Scientific Conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association in Stralsund, Germany from 9–13 September 2024. 

The conference will be organised in hybrid format and will focus on the topic (online registration is still possible) 
One Health – Challenges and Opportunities for the Surveillance and Management of Wildlife. 

‏ — with Aurélia Souares and Corinna Heineke

The destruction of the Gaza Strip since October 7 has been unprecedented. According to a damage assessment report by the European Union, while homes are the majority of the infrastructure that has been destroyed, critical facilities including hospitals, health facilities, and basic services for sanitation, hygiene, education, energy and ICT are all catastrophically damaged.

There are currently no fully functioning hospitals in the Gaza Strip, and an estimated 700 healthcare and aid workers’ lives have been lost. Medical facilities are lacking personnel, beds, medicine, equipment and electricity.  The extent of damage to both medical facilities and water and sanitation infrastructure raises significant concerns regarding the potential spread of communicable diseases

To prevent further loss of life, there is an imminent need to rebuild basic services, including most importantly, the healthcare sector.  

Attend the Conference on Tropical Medicine and Global Health, at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. Hosted by the German Society for Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine, and Global Health. This event includes plenary sessions, workshops and symposia. 

Here is a list of topics:

Harmonisation and synergies in Tropical and Travel I Medicine I Global Health I Transcultural medicine I Innovative approaches I Oncology and palliative care I Dermatology I Gynecology I Pediatrics I Surgery I Emerging Infectious Diseases I New vaccines I Climate change and environment I Parasitology I NTD I Malaria I Sepsis I Zoonoses I HIV and TB I High Consequence Infectious Diseases I Clinical quiz I Training and career opportunities I Update Tropical and Travel Medicine

For participation, please register here:
https://fd2.formdesk.com/pcma/CTM-2024

Don't miss the opportunity to connect with global health experts! 

The Global Health Summer programme is a one-week course in which students and young professionals from diverse disciplines and regions of the world come together to learn, discuss, and connect at the intersections of health, peace, and socio-ecological transformation. It is accompanied by a one-day public conference, organized to a great extent by summer school alumni.

This year’s Global Health Summer School will focus on trauma, empowerment, and the right to health in the context of forced displacement and flight. Throughout the program, an intersectional and emancipatory perspective is encouraged. Insights into global health architecture and its interplay with migration politics will be gained. Academic debates on trauma, resilience, and healing, considering the role of culture, society, and politics, will be discussed. Questions will be raised on how human rights-based and decolonial approaches to trauma and psychosocial work change the way violence and health are perceived. To achieve this, lived experiences of migrant people and refugees will be juxtaposed with critiques of border regimes and asylum systems of the Global North. 

The course fees are as follows:

Students: 250 Euro (incl. 100 Euros for meals)
Professionals (with regular income): 450 Euros (incl. 100 Euros for meals)
IPPNW members: 190 Euro (incl. 100 Euros for meals)

Please hand in your application through the application form until May 29th 2024.