Current Updates

How can telemedicine improve access to healthcare in rural areas? This question was at the center of a meeting between Prof. Janina Steinert and Yvon Koudam, CEO and co-founder of the digital health platform Kondjigbale, at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology. Together with Laura Stock… [read more]

On July 31 2026, Manzura Jumaniyazova was invited to speak at the New Uzbekistan University in Tashkent as part of the "YESU Friday Talks" series, organized by the Young Economists Society of Uzbekistan (YESU). In her talk, Manzura shared her personal academic journey — from applying for study… [read more]

Prof. Janina Isabel Steinert in Interview with ARD Team Recherche [read more]

Prof. Dr Janina Isabel Steinert, Dr Manuela Fritz, Manzura Jumaniyazova, and Henrike Sternberg represented the Professorship of Global Health at the European Health Economics Association (EuHEA) conference in Rotterdam from 15-17 July, presenting research spanning Africa and Asia — from adolescent… [read more]

Manzura Jumaniyazova participated in the 18th Joint IOS/Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America"/EACES Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe, held in Bernried on Lake Starnberg and received the Hans Raupach Best Paper Award 2026 for her paper "Gender, Birth Order, and Child Growth: Evidence… [read more]

From 23-26 June, Luise Koch and Ines Böhret contributed to the 2026 Conference of the European Network on Gender and Violence (ENGV) in London, hosted by Violence and Society Centre at City St George’s, and the UK Prevention Research Partnership VISION consortium. [read more]

Prof. Janina Steinert’s project on “Preventing Parent and Teacher Violence against Children in Tanzania (PREVIO)” has won the German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA) Prize for Global Health Research, which was awarded at the GLOHRA Day on 26 June 2026 in Berlin. [read more]

Manzura Jumaniyazova participated in the 39th European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), held in Espoo and Helsinki, Finland, from 11–13 June 2026. [read more]

Manzura Jumaniyazova has received the European Economic Association's 2026 Award for Exceptional Teaching in the Early Career category. [read more]

Nikolay Lunchenkov, a research fellow at the Professorship for Global Health at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, has co-authored a new paper on the HIV/AIDS burden in Kazakhstan, which has been published in the journal Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. [read more]