Current Updates

Researchers from the Professorship for Global Health at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and international partners have published new findings on the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and adherence to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among gay, bisexual, and other men… [read more]

On March 2–3, 2026, the Center for Global Health at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) hosted the workshop “Interventions in Context: Critical Perspectives on Global Health Implementation,” marking the closing event of the ADOPT Social Science Program. The two-day workshop brought together… [read more]

Manzura Jumaniyazova, Prof. Dr. Janina Isabel Steinert together with Eliana Chavarría-Pino, Friederike Suhr, and Cecilia Michelle Argueta publish a systematic review and meta-analysis on gender disparities in early childcare practices in the Journal of Global Health. [read more]

Prof. Steinert and co-authors Amber Peterman, Kevin Kamto Sonke and Jingying Wang publish a large systematic review and meta-analysis on the impact of social safety net interventions on women's social and economic empowerment in Nature Human Behaviour. [read more]

Prof. Dr. Janina Isabel Steinert, Ines Böhret, Anushree Dirangane, and Shruti Shukla attended a very productive team meeting in Jaipur, India, in December 2025. The meeting brought together the TUM team with Mansi Pawar, Jithin Jose and Vikas Choudhry from the Sambodhi Research and Communications… [read more]

A new mixed-methods study on HIV and viral hepatitis testing in the Kyrgyz Republic has just been published in PLOS ONE. The paper brings together quantitative data from primary healthcare facilities and rich qualitative insights to show how testing is actually delivered, understood, and experienced… [read more]

The results of the seroprevalence of Mpox study published in Communications Medicine (Nature) has identified the primary drivers behind the rapid decline of Berlin’s 2022 mpox outbreak, one of Europe’s largest during the global epidemic. [read more]

The UN draws attention to violence against women and girls with the “Orange Days” from 25 November to 10 December – violence that often remains invisible. Many affected individuals do not turn to the police. How many women experience violence over the course of their lives and who is particularly… [read more]

The three-day workshop “Connecting Violence Researchers in Germany” brought together experts from across Germany at the TUM Science & Study Center in Raitenhaslach. Funded by the Technical University of Munich, the event featured research group introductions, thematic poster walks, and collaborative… [read more]

After ten years, this research updates the INSPIRE Framework with the latest evidence, drawing on more than 200 systematic reviews and roughly 3,000 primary studies. [read more]