Hub Management Team

📅 6 February 2026, on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Women in Global Health is convening a global webinar to advance the conversation on what it will truly take to end FGM—through sustained commitment, investment, and women’s leadership. 

 🌍 Under the theme “Towards 2030: No End to FGM Without Sustained Commitment and Investment,” the webinar The Power to Lead: Women Advancing the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation will spotlight the leadership of women and girls, particularly those at risk of or affected by FGM. The discussion will explore the role of health systems and providers, as well as the vital contributions of women’s rights and feminist movements in driving gender-transformative change. 

 💬 The event will also reflect on how to sustain progress amid growing backlash, fragility, and humanitarian challenges. 

 🕒 Time: 12:00–13:30 UTC 
📍 Location: Virtual (Zoom) 

👉 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OSQkcZ0GRAWDz70qzG4HSg 

Dear Global Health Hub Member,  

we are pleased to invite you to the virtual Global Health Hub Germany Matchmaking Event from 10 February to 12 February 2026 — our new online gathering for all Hub members to connect, collaborate, and build impactful partnerships across the network. 

Building on the successful post-conference Matchmaking Event after the Global Health Talk in June 2025, we are excited to establish the online Matchmaking as an annual event, offering you the opportunity to connect and network with fellow members of the Global Health Hub community. 

On the official matchmaking platform, you can network and exchange knowledge across sectors: meet managers and members from different communities of practice, steering committee representatives and connect directly other experts. Register now to schedule one-on-one conversations to explore new collaborations and exchange expertise. 

This year, the event will also feature expert keynotes, and our hub communities will present their work and projects to invite for active participation. 

Expert Keynote:  

• GAVI - Markus Beck  

• WHO – Dr. Julia Fitzner   

• Bündnis90/die Grünen - Dr. Kirsten Kappert-Gonther 

Communities presenting their work:

• Climate Change and Health Community 

• Global Mental Health Community 

• Global Urban Health Community  

Registration & timeline 

Registration is now open to all members of the Global Health Hub Germany via the Event Platform.  

Register now and save the dates in your calendar. 

Please note: The matchmaking function (searching and confirming meetings) will be activated on 02 February 2026. Before sending meeting requests, please make sure your profile is fully completed. Please save the attached timeslots in your calendar. 

Virtual matchmaking sessions (CET) 

• 10 February 2026 | 13:00–15:00 (4 slots of 25 minutes) 

• 11 February 2026 | 10:00–12:00 (4 slots of 25 minutes) 
                                | 13:00–15:00 (4 slots of 25 minutes) 

• 12 February 2026 | 10:00–12:00 (4 slots of 25 minutes) 

We look forward to welcoming you on the platform and to shaping the future of global health — together. 

Please find attached a PDF Guideline that will help you navigate through the registration and matchmaking platform. 

If you have any questions please feel free to contact  

Valerie Siedler 
Global Health Hub Germany 
valerie.siedler@globalhealthhub.de 

📢 Save the Date | 2nd PHC Congress
🗓 4–6 March 2026

🌍 Redesigning Primary Health Care: Building Resilience Amidst Global Uncertainty

The 2nd PHC Congress will convene global and regional stakeholders to explore how Primary Health Care can be reimagined to meet today’s escalating challenges—including pandemics, climate change, economic shocks, conflict, and widening health inequities. As Africa stands at a critical crossroads, the congress will focus on transforming PHC to be more resilient, inclusive, digitally enabled, future-focused, and deeply rooted in communities, as a cornerstone for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) 🤝🏥.

Since 1995, the Kongress Armut und Gesundheit (Poverty and Health Congress) has been Germany’s key platform for addressing health inequalities. Each year, it brings together stakeholders from science, healthcare, politics, practice, and self-help to examine the structural drivers of health disparities, share research, and explore strategies for change.

The 2026 congress will center on a pressing question: What are social equity and health worth to us as a society? Building on last year’s call for poverty-sensitive, evidence-based policymaking, the event will critically examine why political action often fails to reflect scientific evidence, and how this can be changed.

Participants can expect a programme of discussions, presentations, and workshops highlighting new research, policy approaches, and practical solutions. Contributions can be submitted until 15 September 2025.

It is a full-time, on-site programme for physicians who hold a medical degree (MD/MBBS or equivalent) from a medical school in any country and who are licensed to practise medicine in that country. Online participation is not possible. Registration is open until 31 January 2026.

• The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine is Germany's oldest institution of its kind, having been founded in 1900. The DTMH has been held here since 1905.
• You will be taught by experienced scientific and clinical experts from all departments of the BNITM and from many external national and international institutions.

The Diploma Course will train physicians to work in countries of the tropics or subtropics. The course will enable participants to diagnose and treat diseases in travellers and migrants from the tropics and subtropics and to provide preventive medical travel-related advice.

The course focuses on the aetiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases and clinical work in low-resource settings. It also covers travel medicine and principles of global health.