Organised by Prof. Dr Janina Isabel Steinert (Technical University of Munich), Prof. Nikkil Sudharsanan, PhD (Technical University of Munich), Prof. Dr Martin Siegel (Technical University of Berlin) and Dr Christoph Strupat (German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)), the workshop brought together over 20 experts from various research institutions and facilitated an exchange on current studies and topics.
The 9th October 2025 was dedicated to young scientists. Here, doctoral students presented their research and received feedback from peers and more experienced scientists.
In his keynote speech, Prof. Dr Dr Till Bärnighausen presented his research on the topic of ‘Restructuring of Global Health Initiatives and its Consequences’.
In addition, the following topics were presented and discussed at the conference:
When Awareness Backfires: The Unintended Impact of Leprosy Campaigns on Stigma in Togo (Dominik Jockers)
Can Health Insurance Reduce Gender Disparities in Child Labour and Education? Evidence from Ghana (Alina Sowa)
The Role of Gender and Birth Order in Child Development: Evidence from Central Asia (Manzura Jumaniyazova)
Designing a Couple-Based Intervention to Address Economic Violence: A Gender Transformative Approach (Shruti Shukla, Ines Böhret and Anushree Dirangane)
Menstrual Stigma and Girls Outcomes: An RCT Intervention among School Girls in Nigeria (Terhemen Agabo)
Evaluating an AMR Stewardship Intervention among Pharmacists in Ghana: Evidence from a Randomised Field Study (Max Guigas)
Ancestral norm mixtures and women’s empowerment and health (Ulugbek Aminjonov)
Climate Change Resilience through Health Systems: The Role of Healthcare Access in Shielding Children from Drought-Related Undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa (Dr Paula von Haaren & Dr Christoph Strupat)
Medical and Cost Uncertainty in Health Care Seeking (Dr Lisa Rogge)
A Political-Economy Assessment of Pakistan’s Flagship Social Health Insurance Programme: The Sehat Sahulat Card (Aleen Durrani)
Heuristic Decision-Making in Medicine: Evidence from Ghanaian Pharmacists (Dr Jan Priebe)
Financing Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention and Response: The example of South Asia (Prof. Konrad Obermann, PhD)
Three Decades of Birth Order and Gender Patterns in India: A Sequence Analysis Approach (Matthias Kern)
The organisation of the conference is one of the activities promoting health research and scientific exchange carried out by the Munich Center for Health Economics and Policy (M-CHEP).