To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Bilharz, the discoverer of Schistosoma haematobium, leading research institutions from Germany and Gabon have come together to host a landmark conference in Tübingen. The event is co-organized by the University Hospital Tübingen, Technical University Munich, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, and the Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL) in Gabon.

The meeting aims to bring together experts, researchers, and students from across the globe to exchange insights, present new research, and discuss future directions in the fight against schistosomiasis.

🎤 Themes include:

• History and Global Health


• The Parasite and Its Hosts


• Clinical Disease and Morbidity Management


• Drugs, Diagnostics, and Vaccines


• Immunology, Microbiome, and Metabolomics (DZIF Sessions)


• Epidemiology, Prevention, and Implementation Science

📢 Call for Abstracts:
Present your work as a poster or oral presentation. Submissions must be in English and are due by 30 April 2025.

🔗 Register and submit your abstract soon — only 200 seats available!
🏨 Due to limited accommodation in Tübingen, early booking is strongly recommended.

The Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Lübeck invites clinicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals to take part in its well-established Evidence-Based Medicine (EbM) course series, now in its 28th year.

Participants can choose from:
🔹 The 28th Basic Course (Grundkurs)
🔹 The 25th Advanced Course (Aufbaukurs)
🔹 The 6th Course on Systematic Reviews and Evidence Syntheses

Each week-long course blends lectures, seminars, group work, and hands-on exercises. The curriculum is designed to strengthen skills in formulating clinical questions, systematically searching for evidence, and critically appraising research for quality and applicability. The Review course focuses on the planning and evaluation of systematic reviews and other types of evidence syntheses.

Whether you're starting out or seeking to deepen your EbM practice, these courses provide a solid foundation for integrating high-quality evidence into healthcare decision-making.

👉 More details and registration available on the EbM Lübeck website
📬 For questions, contact: Prof. Dr. Alexander Katalinic or Dr. Maria Noftz at the Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Lübeck.

The 14th International Global Health Summer School, hosted by IPPNW Germany in cooperation with Charité Berlin, invites 25 participants to join an immersive, interdisciplinary program exploring the urgent intersections of climate justice, health, and peace.

In a time of ecological collapse, backlash against climate action, and widening health inequities, this year's theme is a call to critically examine the systems at the root of these crises—and to reimagine them through collective care and interdependence.

Through an intersectional, decolonial lens, the program will feature presentations, workshops, and excursions, bridging professional and activist perspectives. Participants will reflect, connect, and co-create in a space dedicated to dialogue, learning, and transformative thinking.

📍 Berlin, Germany
🔗 [Apply by 18 May 2025]
📧 Contact: wunder@ippnw.de 

🌍 Open to students, professionals, and activists from all backgrounds
IPPNW particularly encourages applications from individuals facing systemic discrimination, including but not limited to BIPoC, LGBTQI+, migrants, people with disabilities, refugees, and women.

Join the movement for a healthier, fairer, and more peaceful future.

👉 For more information and to apply, visit the [IPPNW website]

The Infectious Disease Alliance is organizing the webinar titled "Data-driven Decision Making in Outbreak Control: The Role of AI and Big Data", which will take place online on Thursday, 26 June 2025 at 4 p.m. CET, 10 a.m. EST. As a global infectious disease network uniting civil society organizations and individuals committed to the prevention, treatment, and control of infectious diseases, the Infectious Disease Alliance aims to highlight the transformative potential of AI and Big Data in improving outbreak response. This event addresses the growing need for real-time data in decision-making during health crises, aligning with global health policies on pandemic preparedness and technology-driven epidemic control.

This in-person workshop, hosted by the University of Hamburg and supported by EUGLOH and the Claussen-Simon Foundation, explores the intersection of entrepreneurship, health innovation, and cutting-edge research infrastructures. Participants will engage with global health experts, industry partners, and leading scientists across four days of talks, training, and immersive experiences at facilities like European XFEL, EMBL, and CSSB.

📍 University of Hamburg, Germany | 💬 Language: English | Registration Deadline: April 30 2025
🧑‍🎓 Target groups: Academic Staff, Administrative Staff, Master students, PhD students, Post-docs, Researchers

Kicking off with a high-level conference on June 2nd, the event features keynote speakers from the WHO, Academy of Sciences, and XPLORAYTION, along with skill-building workshops on innovation, IP, and data management.

From June 3–5, participants will split into small groups for hands-on workshops tailored to research topics such as:

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  High-throughput X-ray research at XFEL

  
  


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  Nanomedicine and lipid nanoparticle analysis at CSSB/EMBL

  
  


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  Entrepreneurial thinking using Design Thinking at PIER/HALRIC

  
  


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  Applications of nanopores and nanomembranes in health at CHyN

  
  

Social highlights include a VR night at the Virtual Reality Headquarters and a scenic boat tour through Hamburg, both free for accepted participants.

🎓 Certificates of participation will be issued.
✉️ Apply by 30 April 2025. Selected EUGLOH applicants may receive full funding, and academic staff are encouraged to apply via Erasmus+ Staff Mobility.

🔗  Contact Felix Poschinger – felix.poschinger@uni-hamburg.de
📑 Selection based on academic merit, motivation, and language skills.

The Robert Koch Colloquium is an annual interdisciplinary lecture series hosted by the Robert Koch Institute. Each year, the colloquium focuses on a cutting-edge public health theme, bringing together leading experts to present and discuss their research and insights.
This year’s colloquium centres on the theme “Empowering Public Health: From Data to Global Health,” exploring the transformative potential of digitalization, data analytics, and advanced technologies in addressing public health challenges worldwide.
It will take place in a hybrid format from Monday 19 May (1pm CET) to Tuesday 20 May (3pm CET). The lectures will be held at the headquarters of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and concurrently livestreamed.
Please find more information on the program and the registration link on the following website: https://rki.de/rkc

Three years after the adoption of the European Union Global Health Strategy, the European Commission is organising the 2025 Global Health Policy Forum (GHPF). 

Global health stakeholders will gather to take stock of the implementation of the Strategy, assess current and future challenges, and discuss what lies ahead for the global health agenda. The objective of the Forum is to foster constructive dialogue and strengthen engagement among key global health stakeholders. 

Registration is mandatory for both in-person and online participants. Registrations are open until 14 April 2025. Your participation will be confirmed by email. In person attendance will be confirmed after the registration deadline

Register now

The Global Health Policy Forum will take place on 15 May 2025 in a hybrid format to allow broad participation from global stakeholders. The in-person meeting will be hosted at the Conference Centre Albert Borschette (CCAB), room 0D, Rue Froissart 36, 1049 Brussels.

Interpretation for EN, DE, ES and FR has been requested to facilitate exchanges.

The Interdisciplinary Expert Centre on Climate Change and Health (IECCCH) at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences invites researchers, policymakers, and health professionals to an online expert seminar on May 13, 2025, focusing on the intersection of climate change, malaria, and health resilience in Africa.

With climate change accelerating the spread of malaria and other infectious diseases, this event will explore AI-driven disease surveillance, climate-smart health systems, and policy solutions to strengthen health resilience. Keynote lectures and parallel sessions will highlight innovative approaches, including global collaboration and community-based adaptation strategies.

📅 Date: 13 May 2025
⏰ Time: 13:00 - 16:00 CET
📍 Location: Online

Registration: For organizational purposes, please register online here: https://lnkd.in/dycm8YJn 

🎤 Call for Contributions: Researchers are invited to present their work in one of five categories, including AI in malaria control, climate-driven disease spread, and urbanization challenges.

🔗 Submit your expression of interest by April 10, 2025: Registration Link

Join this vital discussion and contribute to building climate-resilient health systems in Africa.

This course conveys general concepts, and principles of human rights approaches within the health sector to “leave no one behind” – which has become even more relevant in times of US financial withdrawal. The course combines theoretical knowledge with practical application through case studies and examples by health advocates who have engaged in human rights advocacy for decades.

Course participants will gain a deeper understanding of human rights and the right to health, Global Health and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the WHO pandemic agreement and intellectual property rights in the context of access to medicines. The right to health will be discussed in the field of gender, disability, migration, drug use and detention through expert inputs, exchanges with affected people and through country case studies. It is also envisaged to visit a local refugee centre in order to gain practical insights into the right to health for refugees.

Planned inputs by:

• Heidelberg Institute of Global Health Astrid Berner-Rodoreda, Maureen McGowan, apl. Prof. Volker Winkler

• Global Fund Dr. Vuyiseka Dubula
• Medicines Patent Pool Foundation, Geneva Esteban Burrone

• Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences Heino Stöver
• Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, Heidelberg Nadia Primc

To participate in the course, please contact: anne-kathrin.fabricius@uni-heidelberg.de

Fees: 1000€, reduced rate tropEd 750€, Credit: 2 ECTs

The Berlin Epidemiological Methods Colloquium (BEMC) invites all interested participants to its next session on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM CEST.

📣 Guest Speaker:
Martin Lajous (National Institute of Public Health, Mexico & Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland)
🗣️ Talk Title: "Estimating effects on all-cause mortality in the presence of COVID-19 deaths"

In this presentation, Lajous will explore how the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new challenges for epidemiologic cohorts evaluating the impact of risk factors on non-communicable disease mortality. Using data from the Mexican Teachers’ Cohort and the Polish-Norwegian Study, he will discuss patterns of mortality during and after the pandemic, and outline various causal inference methods for dealing with competing risks like COVID-19 deaths. The talk will also delve into advanced analytic strategies such as g-formula, IPTW, and separable treatment effects, including their application in real-world studies on colon and prostate cancer.

📍 Location (in-person): Lecture Hall 21 (former Paul-Ehrlich-Hörsaal), Virchowweg 4, CCM
📝 Register for in-person attendance
💻 Register for remote attendance via Zoom
📺 Not in Berlin? Join via livestream!

This is a great opportunity to engage with advanced epidemiological methods and gain insights into current debates in population health research.

Dear colleagues and interested parties!

We cordially invite you to the Tropical Medicine Symposium at the Charité.

Modern tropical medicine not only addresses the classic infectious diseases of warm regions, but also the social determinants of health and the economic aspects of healthcare in middle- and low-income countries. The boundaries between curative and population-based preventive medicine are often fluid. The same applies to the closely related fields of international and global health and migration medicine. The Institute of International Health is located at the intersection of these topics. Here, patient care (returning travelers, migrants), specialized diagnostics, the prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases, and research activities in Berlin and abroad converge. Constantly changing infection patterns and new diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive options shape our daily lives.

We hope this event will provide you with insight into the changing, exciting, and broad field of modern tropical medicine. The speakers will be available for discussion afterward. Continuing education credits have been applied for with the Berlin Medical Association. We look forward to welcoming you to this symposium on May 7, 2025, and look forward to a lively exchange.

Prof. Dr. Beate Kampmann

Prof. Dr. Frank Mockenhaupt

The World Federation of Paediatric Intensive and Critical Care Society is introducing its Awareness Week, a global initiative where colleagues caring for critically ill children share their experiences and innovations in a modest and collaborative spirit. This event highlights the impact of climate change, epidemics, and socio-economic challenges on child health and clinical care. Through a series of podcasts and webinars, clinical teams and health workers from various regions will discuss their working environments and problem-solving strategies while outlining their expectations from global partnerships. For example, teams from Sub-Saharan Africa will explore how Madagascar’s increasing tropical storms disrupt healthcare infrastructure, agriculture, and even alter the epidemiology of infectious diseases such as malaria and dengue, further exacerbating food insecurity and malnutrition risks. In eastern DRC’s South Kivu, health workers will focus on the compounded challenges posed by a fragile health system, MPOX epidemics, conflict, and the needs of displaced populations. Moreover, all teams will describe how climate change adaptation measures—such as energy-efficient facility designs and the use of renewable energy (e.g., solar energy) to ensure decentralized oxygen provision, power essential biomedical equipment, and maintain cold chains for vaccinations—can not only reduce carbon emissions and other environmental impacts of health systems but also substantially improve access to essential health care services for vulnerable populations. Our colleagues will also emphasize the responsibility of industrialized countries to support climate change adaptation measures in regions that have historically contributed minimally to global CO₂ emissions.