Caroline Baltzer

Dear Hub Community,

We are pleased to announce the upcoming community event organized by the Global Health Hub Germany’s Global Women’s Health subgroup on feminist policy.

In recent years, feminist approaches to policymaking have received increased attention. In Germany, the government has introduced feminist guidelines for its foreign and development policy, and calls are made to apply a feminist lens to global health policy. For good reasons: research shows that women, gender minorities, and marginalized populations often face multiple barriers in receiving the health services they need, increasing their risk of facing infections and diseases or dying from preventable deaths, e.g., in pregnancy and childbirth. Feminist global health policy prioritizes equity, intersectionality, inclusivity, and the diverse health challenges faced by marginalized groups, particularly women, gender minorities and multiply oppressed individuals. In a world where health disparities persist, these approaches push for policies that address systemic inequities, working towards designing health programs that benefit everyone and leave no one behind.

The webinar will provide a 101 on feminist approaches to global health policy and explore examples for their implementation. Participants should attain a comprehensive understanding of the principles of feminist global health policy, their added value for German policymaking, as well as their challenges and pitfalls.

The audience will have the opportunity to listen to and discuss with our distinctive panelists:

• Dr. Lisa Hoffmann, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
• Elizabeth Kayanga, Integrated Disabled Women Activities, Uganda
• Department of Sex and Gender Sensitive Medicine, Bielefeld University (tbc)
• GENDRO (tbc)

Please register for the event following this link.

Once you are registered for the webinar, you will receive a confirmation. The webinar will take place in English.

Dear Hub Community, 

We are delighted to invite you to this year’s Global Health Talk, our annual flagship event, bringing together leading global health experts from different stakeholder groups and high-level representatives from the German government. The event is a great opportunity to network among our active Hub members and to gain insights into our diverse Hub Communities. 

All guests are warmly invited to the opening ceremony with Federal Minister of Health Prof. Karl Lauterbach, followed by a keynote on fragility and global health from Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Svenja Schulze (TBC). Following this, we will dive into discussions on the following key topics in global health: 

• Panel on Fragility & Global Health 
• Climate and Health Nexus: Analysis of COP 29
• European Cooperation in Global Health
• Non-Communicable Diseases: UN High-Level Meeting 2025
• International Processes in Global Health Policy

Please mark your calendars for the event & join us in Berlin on December 05 – 06
at the Conference Center, Mauerstraße 27, 10117 Berlin. 

Registration will open soon.

We look forward to your participation and the valuable conversations that will shape the future of global health. 

Sincerely,   
The Management Team of the Global Health Hub Germany