Recent Updates

Dear Hub Members,

Join us on  for a critical discussion on global health strategies centered around migrants and refugees. The last annual community theme of Global Health in Conflict Settings (2024/2025) was hosted by the Global Health and Migration Hub Community of Practice. Along this community annual theme, a Policy Brief, titled 'Strengthening Global Health in Conflict Settings: Strategic Insights for Germany and the European Union' and a table top simulation exercise were developed and we would like to present them during this event. 

Agenda:
15:00-15:05 Welcome
15:05-15:15 Keynote by Dr Saverio Bellizzi, WHO
15:15-16:00 GHHG Simulation Exercise 'Critical Choices - Global Health in Crisis'
16:00-16:30 Open Discussion (Q&A)

We are delighted to welcome Dr Saverio Bellizzi as our keynote speaker.
Dr Saverio Bellizzi is an Italian physician, public health expert, and researcher specialising in global health, humanitarian emergencies, and migration health. He has worked with several international organisations, including MSF and ICRC, and currently with the World Health Organization (WHO), in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. His professional focus includes maternal and child health, infectious disease control, and health systems strengthening in crisis and post-crisis settings. Dr Bellizzi has also contributed to numerous peer reviewed publications on public health and epidemiology and continues to support global initiatives aimed at improving health outcomes among vulnerable populations, particularily refugees and migrants. 

Please note:
Register for this event via the link below. The first hour of this webinar will be recorded until the end of the GHHG SimEx. If you do not wish to appear in the recording, you can turn off your camera.

We look forward to your valuable contributions to this important discussion.

For further details, please contact:

Katrin Würfel and Linda Blessin or the Hub Management Team at info@globalhealthhub.de

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.

Dear Global Health & Migration Community Members (GHHG),

Dear Global Health & Migration Community Members (GHHG),

Please save the date for our regular community meeting on Nov 19, from 15:00 to 16:00 (Berlin time).

The meeting will take place via BigBlueButton: https://webinare.e-collaboration.eu/b/rooms/quy-4tp-alp-s0p/join

PW: nw6jwp 

Agenda

• will be updated

Save the Date for Upcoming Meetings

• December 17

Warm regards,

Sonu, Zahra & Henna

for the Global Health and Migration Community, Global Health Hub Germany

Dear Global Health & Migration Community Members (GHHG),

Please save the date for our regular community meeting on Oct 15, from 15:00 to 16:00 (Berlin time).

The meeting will take place via BigBlueButton: https://webinare.e-collaboration.eu/b/rooms/quy-4tp-alp-s0p/join

PW: nw6jwp 

Agenda

• will be updated

Save the Dates for Upcoming Meetings

• November 19
• December 17

Warm regards,

Sonu, Zahra & Henna

for the Global Health and Migration Community, Global Health Hub Germany

Dear Hub members, 

We are pleased to launch a new format within our monthly GMHC members' meetings: the Brown Bag Lectures. Each session will begin with a short, focused presentation by a distinguished expert, followed by our regular community meeting. 

📅 Brown Bag Lecture Kick-Off 

Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 
Time: 12:00 PM (noon CEST) 
Location: online [Link] 

🗣️ Lecture Topic 

Psychosocial Care in Gaza – Now and in the Future 

We are honored to welcome Mahmoud Hemmo as our first speaker. 
Mahmoud is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst at the University Hospital Zurich. He works in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF, and various NGOs in crisis and conflict regions. His work focuses on Problem Management Plus (PM+), an evidence-based psychosocial intervention with significant relevance for post-war Gaza and other humanitarian settings. 

🧭 Agenda 

12:00 – 01:00 PM 
▶ Brown Bag Lecture by Mahmoud Hemmo 

01:00 – 1:30 PM 
▶ GMHC Monthly Community Meeting 
Focus: Preparing GMHC’s contribution to the Global Health Talk 2025 in Berlin 

We hope many of you will join us for this important session and the launch of our new format. 

Warm regards, 
Franziska, Jinan & Michael 
GMHC Community Management