Hub Management Team

🌍 Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2025 Global Monitoring Report

Online Launch Event — December 8th, 2025

The World Bank, the World Health Organization, UHC2030, and the Joint Learning Network cordially invite the global health community to the launch of the 2025 Global Monitoring Report on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). 📊✨

This session will present new global findings on access to quality health services and financial protection — tracking progress toward UHC and Sustainable Development Goal Target 3.8. The report uses the latest 2020–2022 data, supported by new projections through 2030.

🧭 The discussion will explore:

• Where the world stands today on UHC 📈
• Persistent gaps in service coverage and financial hardship 🕳️
• Needed policy shifts to accelerate progress toward health for all 🏥🤝

🕗 Time: 8:00–9:30am EST / 14:00–15:30 CET
🌐 Format: Virtual (Über die Zoom Workplace-App beitreten - Zoom)
🔊 Interpretation available in French, Spanish & Arabic

🎙️ Featured speakers include:
Experts from WHO, The World Bank, and partnering institutions — offering perspectives on analytics, financing, health systems performance, and evidence-based action.

🌆 Spreestadt Forum & Berlin Hospital Seminar — Winter Semester Kick-Off

On behalf of the scientific directors Prof. Busse and Prof. Kersting, the Spreestadt Forum and the Berlin Hospital Seminar are pleased to invite community members to their first lecture of the 2025/26 winter semester.

📣 Speakers:
Ingo Goldammer & Tobias Orthmann
(Managing Directors of the Regional Health Center Holzminden)

💡 Topic:
The Regional Health Center Holzminden as a blueprint for cross-sectoral health care (“Level 1i”) — exploring innovative models that bridge outpatient and inpatient services.

📅 Date & Time:
Monday, 08 December 2025
18:00 c. t. (18:15 start)

📍 Location:
Conference Rooms 1 & 2
National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians
Herbert-Lewin-Platz 2, 10623 Berlin

💻 Hybrid Format:
Participation is possible on-site or online.
The digital access link will be published on the evening of the event on the organizer’s website. Spreestadt-Forum und BKS - TU Berlin

🎟️ Free of charge & no registration required!

🧭 The full program overview is available online under Spreestadt Forum and Berlin Hospital Seminar.
For questions, please contact the team: mig@tu-berlin.de.

🌍 16 Days of Activism is underway, and this year the community is joining the UNiTE Campaign to highlight a rapidly growing concern: digital violence against women and girls.

For many women in global health, online spaces offer connection, visibility, and leadership—but they can also be sites of harassment, misinformation, and gender-based abuse. This webinar aims to change that. 💪✨

📢 Digital Safety for Women in Global Health
Date: Friday, December 5, 2025
Time: 2:00–3:30 PM UTC
Where: Zoom (registration required)

This session will bring together voices from across the global health field to explore how technology-facilitated gender-based violence impacts women, and to share practical, gender-transformative strategies for creating safer, more inclusive digital spaces. 🔐💬

All are invited to join this important conversation and support efforts to build a digital world where every woman can participate, lead, and speak freely—without fear.

🌍 Save the Date: World AIDS Day 2025 Event in Geneva 

UNAIDS, WHO and the Global Fund will host a special World AIDS Day event on Monday, 1 December 2025, from 15:30 to 17:00 CET in Geneva. The gathering will feature three interlinked panels exploring how recent funding disruptions threaten to reverse decades of progress in the AIDS response. At the same time, speakers will spotlight powerful stories of community resilience and call for renewed global solidarity. ✨

Participants can join in person at UNAIDS, Avenue Appia 20, Geneva, or online via the organizers’ social channels.

Live Stream via Youtube: Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response - World AIDS Day 2025

UHC High-Level Forum 2025 | Tokyo (TBC) | 6 December 2025

Global health leaders will gather in Tokyo for the UHC High-Level Forum 2025, co-hosted by the Government of Japan, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank. The event aims to accelerate progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC)—ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access the health services they need without financial hardship. 🌍🏥

The Forum is part of Japan’s broader commitment to advancing UHC, including the launch of the new UHC Knowledge Hub, which supports capacity-building and policy action in low- and lower-middle-income countries.

Key objectives include:
• Reviewing global progress and identifying key challenges in achieving UHC
• Strengthening partnerships and alignment across governments, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector 🤝
• Sustaining political momentum toward global UHC by 2030

Date: 6 December 2025
Location: Tokyo, Japan (TBC) and Online via Youtube livestream
Co-hosts: Government of Japan, WHO, World Bank
Program highlights: High-level discussions, UHC Knowledge Hub launch ceremony, and a multi-stakeholder forum ⚙️

Expected participants include representatives from international organizations, public-private partnerships, ministries of health and finance, philanthropic actors, civil society, and the private sector.

A key milestone event for advancing global health equity. ✨

🌍 Webinar Series: Climate-Resilient & Sustainable Health Systems in Africa 🌱

Beginning October 2025, GCCHE and partners are launching a free monthly webinar series to explore how Africa’s health systems can adapt to climate change while reducing their environmental footprint.

Key highlights:

• 🗓️ Monthly webinars – first Wednesday each month (Oct 2025–Feb 2026)


• 🌐 English sessions with simultaneous French interpretation


• 💰 Participation is free


• 🤝 Hosted by GCCHE, CHEZ, ARAYAA, Build Health International & ACOPPHE

What to expect:

• Practical strategies to strengthen climate-resilient & sustainable health systems


• Real-world success stories from across Africa


• Opportunities to connect with experts and peers


• Guidance on integrating mitigation & adaptation into healthcare operations


• Insights on reducing environmental footprint while improving care quality

Who is it for?

Health system planners, administrators, clinicians, emergency & continuity officials, sustainability officers, policymakers, and anyone interested in climate-resilient healthcare in Africa.

💡 Designed to empower action, collaboration, and impactful change across scal

The Climate Change and Health Community invites everyone to their finaly Community Meeting of the year 2025! 🌍

As a Guest Speaker, Marek Szilvasi will share first-hand insights into the COP30 health outcomes and discuss their implications for the health sector. You find the abstract of his presentation and his short bio below.

If you would like to join the online meeting via Zoom, please registere here: Meeting-Registrierung - Zoom

We look forward to seeing you there and closing the year with an inspiring discussion. 🌡️🌱

Klaus, Donald, Jennyfer and the Hub Management Team 🤝🌐

Abstract

The health impacts of climate change are increasingly tangible. The newly released 2025 Lancet Countdown on Climate and Health—the largest analysis of its kind - indicates that millions of people die each year as a result of insufficient climate action. Every country is now starting to experience some combination of extreme heat, water scarcity, food insecurity, and changing patterns of infectious disease. Despite mounting scientific evidence, adaptation efforts remain fragmented, incremental, and mostly reactive. The decision to operationalize the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) - established by the Paris Agreement under the United Nation Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) - at COP28 in 2023 was therefore a landmark achievement, introducing a structured framework to measure collective progress across 7 thematic and 4 cross-cutting dimensions. Yet significant challenges persist—including in the climate and health thematic target. At COP30, parties are expected to adopt this critical framework, including  a robust, comprehensible, and equitable set of indicators, to institutionalise climate and health nexus under the UNFCCC and ensure that climate policy is grounded in public health and health equity. This talk will provide an initial reflection and analysis of the COP30 outcomes in developing a critical framework for climate and health synergies under the GGA.

Short Resume

Dr Marek Szilvasi is a climate impacts and adaptation, public health and health equity expert. Currently, he has served as a mandated UNFCCC expert developing climate-health nexus indicators under the Global Goal on Adaptation, and Director of Programmes of the Slycan Trust. He previously held a senior management role at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) leading climate resilience, health equity and environmental determinants of health programming and portfolios. As an advisor, he has supported private philanthropies and international organizations in enhancing impact, aligning climate and health strategies, and advancing equity and transparency in their strategies and programming.

Digital Health Lecture Series – Winter Term 2025/26 💡🩺💻

As part of the interdisciplinary lecture series “Digital Health: Innovative Research Projects,” experts from academia, healthcare, and industry explore how digital transformation can improve healthcare delivery in Germany. Across three sessions, they present cutting-edge research, discuss challenges, and engage with the public on emerging solutions in digital health.

Featured Session: Eye-Tracking for Communication in Intensive Care 👁️💬

Date: 11 December 2025, 18:00
Location: FernUniversität in Hagen, Campus Hagen (and online via Zoom)

This session features Dr. Christopher Ull (BG Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil Bochum) and Dr. Christina Ingwald (FernUniversität in Hagen), who provide insights into their interdisciplinary project on eye-tracking technology for patients with limited or no speech ability—such as intubated ICU patients.

The lecture addresses:

• How eye-tracking can support communication of pain, needs, and autonomy
• Psychological and medical perspectives on technology-assisted communication
• Practical experiences from clinical settings
• Opportunities and barriers to integrating such tools into everyday care

Participants onsite can also enjoy a post-event networking session with snacks and drinks.

📍 Series Locations: Campus Berlin, Campus Hagen, Campus Bonn + Zoom
📅 Dates: 06.11.2025, 11.12.2025, 22.01.2026 – each at 18:00
💰 Free participation

📢 BEMC Talk: “Interpretational errors in causal inference and how to avoid them”

The BEMC series invites the community to a hybrid lecture on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. featuring Aaron Sarvet (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA). 🌎📊

In his talk, Sarvet will explore how causal inference—originally rooted in practical, discipline-based questions—has evolved into a framework that now shapes which questions are asked and how evidence is interpreted. He will introduce the concept of “identity slippage,” an interpretational error increasingly observed in causal research, and demonstrate how recognizing this error is essential for sound public health and clinical decision-making. Case studies from mediation analysis and instrumental variable analysis will illustrate these challenges and their solutions. 🔍📈

📍 In-person: Lecture Hall 21 (formerly Paul-Ehrlich-Hörsaal), Virchowweg 4, CCM
📝 Registration (in person): https://forms.gle/qZPpF8GTfqeqJ55p7

💻 Online via Zoom: https://eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m-Sxmz6zQt-6RxDF7GxkFg
🌐 Not in Berlin? Join via livestream!

A great opportunity for anyone interested in strengthening the bridge between causal theory, statistical interpretation, and real-world public health impact.

📢 Lecture Invitation: “Accelerated National Innovation Adoption (ANIA): Learning from Scotland”

The Platform – Charité Health Services Research invites the community to a special lecture on how health innovations can be systematically implemented and scaled for real-world impact. While many promising innovations emerge in healthcare and health services research, their adoption often remains fragmented. Scotland is leading the way with one of the world’s first national programmes designed to integrate innovation implementation into a structured process for widespread uptake. 🌍💡

Dr John Thomson, National Associate Clinical Director at NHS Scotland’s Centre for Sustainable Delivery, will share insights from Scotland’s Accelerated National Innovation Adoption (ANIA) programme, including practical examples, enabling conditions, and lessons for international health systems.

📅 Date: Thursday, 4 December 2025
⏰ Time: 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
📍 Location: Campus Charité Mitte (CCM), Lecture Hall Hörsaal Innere Medizin (HS 22), Sauerbruchweg 2 (barrier-free access via Virchowweg 9)
💻 Online participation: Possible via MS Teams
📝 Registration required by 1 December 2025

All interested colleagues are warmly invited to join this event and explore how countries can accelerate the adoption of impactful innovations for better patient care. 🚀

🌍 RKI-ZIG Talk: Eastern DRC and Global Health Vulnerability 🩺✨

3rd Research Workshop on Public Health & the Public Health Service (ÖGD) — BSPH

Date: Friday, 28 November 2025, 10:00–14:00
Location: Konrad Cohn Lecture Hall, Virchowweg 24, Campus Charité Mitte (CCM), 10117 Berlin

The Berlin School of Public Health (BSPH)—a joint initiative of Alice Salomon University, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin—hosts its 3rd Research Workshop to strengthen exchange between ÖGD practice and public health research.

Program highlights: 🎤 Keynote • ⚡ Short impulse talks from ÖGD practice • 🗣️ Closing discussion.

Who’s expected (≈100): academics (e.g., family health promotion, school entry exams, heat planning/climate & health), leaders/staff from health departments and QPKs, representatives of the Berlin Senate, and students of public health/health sciences. 🧑‍🔬🤝🧑‍🎓

Students are especially keen to learn about ongoing ÖGD projects with potential for project studies or master’s theses.

More information in the fyler attached.

✉️ RSVP/Info: brief confirmation of participation to carolina-marie.walz@charite.de. 📧

🧠 BEMC Talk | Aaron Sarvet (University of Massachusetts Amherst) | November 19, 2025

Join the next BEMC Talk on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, at 4:00 PM (CET) — a hybrid event featuring Aaron Sarvet from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA). He will speak on
🎓 “Interpretational errors in causal inference and how to avoid them.”

In his talk, Sarvet explores how subtle misinterpretations — termed “identity slippage” — can distort causal inference and affect public health and clinical decision-making. He will present case studies from causal mediation and instrumental variable analysis, illustrating how recognizing such errors improves the translation of data into public good.

📍 In-person: Lecture Hall 21 (formerly Paul-Ehrlich-Hörsaal), Virchowweg 4, CCM
💻 Online: Via Zoom
📝 Register now

Don’t miss this insightful session blending methodological rigor and real-world impact in causal inference research! 🌍✨

Health Goals Conference 2025: Health in All Policies – Cooperation as a Success Factor | 8 December 2025, Berlin

On Monday, 8 December 2025 (14:00–18:00), the Forum Gesundheitsziele of GVG e.V. will host the Health Goals Conference 2025 in Berlin (Landesvertretung Brandenburg, In den Ministergärten 3).

The event will explore how cross-sectoral cooperation (“Health in All Policies”) can strengthen prevention and public health in Germany and beyond. Experts from public health institutions, ministries, and healthcare organizations will discuss international perspectives, the future of Germany’s prevention landscape, and the ongoing work of the Health Goals Forum.

🗓️ Date: 8 December 2025
📍 Location: Landesvertretung Brandenburg, In den Ministergärten 3, Berlin
🕓 Time: 14:00–18:00

🦠 Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium 2025
Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) in Europe – Clinical and Policy Challenges in Ukraine and Germany

As part of World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week 2025, this one-day international symposium will bring together clinicians, policymakers, and public health experts from Ukraine, Germany, and across Europe to address one of today’s most urgent AMR threats — carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE). 🌍

Hosted jointly by Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Robert Koch Institute, and the First Medical Union Lviv, the event aims to:
💬 Strengthen cross-border AMR partnerships and technical collaboration
🧪 Highlight CRE as a growing clinical and policy challenge in Europe
📊 Map ongoing Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) and AMR surveillance efforts in Ukraine
🤝 Facilitate dialogue on diagnostics, prevention, and treatment strategies
🧭 Define next steps toward a coordinated international AMR response

With contributions from leading institutions such as the WHO Regional Office for Europe, ECDC, and the Health Ministries of Germany and Ukraine, participants will explore how collaboration—from wards to ministries—can drive stronger, faster AMR action.

📅 Date: Friday, 21 November 2025
🕘 Time: 09:00–18:00 CET
📍 Location: Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin (opposite Charité Campus Mitte)
💻 Format: Hybrid (in person & online)
🗣️ Languages: English & Ukrainian (simultaneous interpretation)
💡 Registration: Free but required by 10 November 2025

Join this essential exchange to help build a resilient, united front against antimicrobial resistance! 💪🌐

🌍 WHO Hub Speaker Series N°12 | Season II: Protecting the World – Moving Rapidly Together

🧠 Bridging Research and Practice to Strengthen Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence

The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence and the Charité Center for Global Health invite the public health community to the 12th session of their Speaker Series, exploring how research and practice can come together to enhance global pandemic preparedness.

This session highlights insights from the Inaugural Research Fellowship in Public Health Intelligence, showcasing five projects that span the entire “data journey” — from data generation and governance to integration, analysis, and translation into policy and practice. The discussion will illustrate how breaking down silos between research, surveillance, and policy can help create faster, fairer, and more connected health intelligence systems.

Building on the 2024 theme “Protecting the World: Moving Rapidly Together,” this event continues the conversation on how multidisciplinary collaboration and innovation can make the world more resilient to health emergencies.

📅 Date: 4 December 2025

🕕 Time: 18:30–20:00 (CET)

📍 Location: WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, Berlin, Germany

💻 Format: Hybrid (In-person & YouTube Livestream)

👉 Due to limited on-site capacity, early registration is encouraged!

Management of Crisis Situations in Public Health 🌍💬

🗓 Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025
🕕 Time: 18:00–19:30
💻 Location: Online via WebEx
🎙 Speakers: Janina Schäfer & Ulrike Grote

This online session explores how to manage crisis situations in public health, addressing key principles, challenges, and practical responses during emergencies such as outbreaks or pandemics.

The event is part of the course “Infectious Disease Epidemiology” (in English), which provides both theoretical and hands-on insights into the aims, scope, and methods of infectious disease epidemiology — from surveillance and prevention to control strategies and study design.

The course is free and open to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as guests.

✅ Certificate of attendance available for regular participants.

A great opportunity to deepen your understanding of how epidemiologists respond to crises and protect public health!