As part of the advisory group, Shruti is going to advise WHO and UN H6+ agencies on strategies to further improve global, regional and national adolescent health measurement, including related research and dissemination.
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Democratic debates and policies thrive on the exchange of diverse viewpoints. However, it has long been acknowledged that politically active individuals often face harsher scrutiny and challenges regarding their opinions, with resilience typically assumed as part of the system.
Recent research…
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Luise Koch, PhD candidate at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has joined a pioneering World Bank project focused on analysing and addressing harmful gender norms across digital platforms in India, Kenya, and Nigeria.
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The focus of the meeting was the collaborative work on online abuse and misogyny against politicians, journalists and activists in India, Germany and globally.
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Henrike Sternberg is a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation funding her doctoral studies. Now, she additionally became a member of the Marianne-Plehn-Programme. It supports outstanding young scientists during their doctoral studies within the German Academic Scholarship…
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Manuela Fritz and a team from Indonesia, Germany and Israel recently published a study entitled “Can social media encourage diabetes self-screenings? A randomized controlled trial with Indonesian Facebook users” in the Nature Portfolio Journal - Digital Medicine. Fritz and her co-authors investigate…
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The Add-on Fellowship Program is aimed at young researchers whose economic research questions are interdisciplinary and highly relevant to society and who thus contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The fellows receive financial support of €12,500 and become part of a network of…
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The International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA) World Conference was helt at LMU Munich from 30 July to 2 August 2024. Among the speakers were Ines Böhret, Luise Koch, and Nikolay Lunchenkov from the Professorship for Global Health.
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