Michael Wirsching

The unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian attack on Ukraine has brought forth the plight of refugee and migrant health and the need for a streamlined approach within and beyond Europe. The purpose of the Hub Community on Global Health & Migration is to act as a catalyst for chance, research, evidence-based policy design and advocacy for refugees and migrants.

Community Managers: 

• Dr Sonu M. M. Bhaskar - Global Health Neurology Lab, NSW Brain Clot Bank, Department of Neurology, and Liverpool Hospital, Sydney (Australia) and Department of Neurology, Division of Cerebrovascular Medicine and Neurology, National Cerebral & Cardiovascular Centre, Osaka (Japan)
• Dr Henna Riemenschneider - Technical University Dresden, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden (Germany)

Working language: English

Community Paper: Some people need to leave or flee their home.

No Health Without Mental Health. - The Hub Community on Global Mental Health focuses on strengthening the equality and complementarity of biomedical and psychosocial concepts in care, prevention, research, teaching, resource allocation and policy.

Community Manager:

• Prof. Dr Michael Wirsching - Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Centre for Medicine and Society
• Dr Jinan Abi Jumaa - Charité University Hospital Berlin
• Dr Solveig Kemna - Charité Berlin
• Dr. Franziska Laporte Uribe - Deutsche Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e. V
  (Lead for Subgroup on Mental Health & Climate Change)

Working language: German

Community Paper: Policy Brief: Covid-19 und mentale Gesundheit (only available in German)