📢 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. 🚀

🌍 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!