Current Updates

Janina Steinert presented the poster “´We don’t get money in our own hands´ Evidence from focus group discussions on economic abuse against women in two states of India". It analyses based on qualitative focus group discussions carried out by Janina Steinert, Ines Böhret, Rucha Vasumati Satish,… [read more]

Shruti Shukla, Prof. Janina Steinert and colleagues published the article "Factors associated with adolescent pregnancy in Maharashtra, India: a mixed-methods study" in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters today. [read more]

Dr. Jannat Farooqui holds a German Chancellor Fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation. As part of the summer conference of this year's scholarship holders, she had the opportunity to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz and present her research at the Chancellery. [read more]

Prof. Janina Steinert's project proposal "Disentangling and Preventing Economic Violence against Women" was selected from 2696 applications for one of the 400 ERC Starting Grants of the European Research Council. [read more]

On the occasion of the 12th conference on HIV Science of the International AIDS Society in Brisbane, Prof. Janina Steinert talks in a radio interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur about achievements and remaining challenges in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, explains which risk populations still… [read more]

In May and June 2023, Henrike participated in the EUDN PhD Workshop in Development Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, and subsequently in the "Field Days: experiments outside the lab" at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She gave presentations on the role of spousal trust dynamics in… [read more]

Nikolay Lunchenkov pursues a doctorate at the Professorship of Global Health at TUM. He currently performs consulting services as an LGBT health coordinator in the Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity (ECOM). Nikolay has experience both from a medical and community… [read more]

According to statistics of the Federal Criminal Police Office, the numbers of intimate partner violence increased from 2021 to 2022. Nevertheless, Janina Steinert points out that this is only the tip of the iceberg because many of those affected by violence, mostly women, do not turn to help… [read more]

In 2022, reported cases of intimate partner violence rose again in Germany. The joint corporate newsroom RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) invited Prof. Janina Steinert for an interview on this trend. She shares insights on challenges in establishing the true prevalence of violence, discusses… [read more]

Even though the immediate urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have passed, many countries did not reach the vaccination rates they initially aimed for. The stagnation in vaccine uptake during the height of the pandemic presented policy makers with a challenge that remains unresolved and is… [read more]