Current Updates

In her keynote "Assessing Harmful Health Outcomes among Adolescent Girls in Zambia an India in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic" Prof. Janina Steinert will talk about research findings and ethical implications. [read more]

Prof. Janina Steinert is currently hosting a German Chancellor Fellow, Dr. Jannat Fatima Farooqui from India. Dr. Farooqui holds a PhD in Social Work from the Department of Social Work, University of Delhi. [read more]

Together with Jessy Amarachi Ezebuihe (The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA), Shruti Shukla and Prof. Janina Steinert assessed the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had and has on the the gender-based health and marriage circumstances of girls and women in India and Zambia. [read more]

The Professorship for Global Health wishes all its partners, students, and friends a merry Christmas and a good start for a healthy and successful new year! [read more]

Brazilian Experts from the field of journalism, political science, and human rights joined the Professorship for Global Health and the Professorship of Computational Social Science and Big Data for giving insights for the research project "Understanding, Detecting, and Mitigating Online Misogyny… [read more]

Our PhD student Luise Koch led one of the six working rooms at the “Gender Innovation Camp” hosted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin. During the two-day event, Luise involved stakeholders and civil society to discuss support solutions for politically active women who face online… [read more]

As part of the research project "Understanding, Detecting, and Mitigating Online Misogyny against Politically Active Women", Prof. Janina Steinert and Prof. Jürgen Pfeffer organise two public talks with discussion tackling recent findings in the wake of the Brazilian elections this year. [read more]

Together with Prof. Tim Büthe (TUM) and Prof. Guiseppe A. Veltri (Universita di Trento), they examined public preferences in six European countries regarding the allocation of COVID-19 vaccines between the Global South and Global North. [read more]

The fellowship program addresses researchers who intend to deepen their skills in fields related to economics and whose research could benefit from such skills. They are supported with an amount of up to € 12.500 over the course of two years. The funds can be spent flexibly, e.g. attending… [read more]

Manzura presents insights on "The Role of Gender and Birth Order in Child Nutrition: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan". This is part of her PhD-project she conducts at the Professorship for Global Health of Prof. Janina Steinert. The conference is organised jointly by the University of Central Asia (UCA,… [read more]