Current Updates

To assess the health effects of the pandemic, a study on how COVID-19 impacted PrEP users in Ukraine was conducted. Prof. Janina Steinerts session will focus on the aspect of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).

Shruti was invited to present her expertise on Evaluation Studies of Maternal Health Issues & Policies during a virtual two-hour session. The lecture on evaluating maternal health policies in India was targeted at future policymakers working with the government of Meghalaya. The class discussed…

Shruti Shukla starts her PhD studies at the Professorship for Global Health with the support of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes doctoral grant.

This paper examines the role of spousal trust in intra-household decision making through its potential of inciting the creation of information asymmetries in the presence of resource unobservability. We experimentally elicit spousal trust and trustworthiness by means of a binary trust game to assess…

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9825 We examine heterogeneity in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy across eight European countries. We reveal striking differences across countries, ranging from 6.4% of adults in Spain to 61.8% in Bulgaria reporting being hesitant. We experimentally assess…

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As part of a research project funded by the European Commission, she and TUM colleagues Tim Büthe and Henrike Sternberg are testing the effectiveness of various communication strategies to increase COVID-19 vaccination readiness. You can find the preprint of the study here:…

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003698 Abstract Background To strengthen the impact of cash transfers, these interventions have begun to be packaged as cash-plus programmes, combining cash with additional transfers, interventions, or services. The…

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/8/e048292 Abstract Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to widen existing gender inequities worldwide. A growing body of literature assesses the harmful consequences of public health emergencies (PHEs) for women and girls; however, evidence of what works to…

Current Updates

Prof. Janina Steinert gives talk on "The impact of COVID-19 on intimate partner violence" at the webinar "Sex, love and COVID-19 before the war: presentation of a policy brief on the impact of COVID-19 on PrEP users in Ukraine" on 19.07.22

Shruti Shukla gives online expert session on evaluation studies of maternal health issues & policies at the Indian School Of Business

New PhD-Student at the Professorship for Global Health

Henrike Sternberg presents her paper "On the Basis of (Mis)trust? Spousal Trust and Trustworthiness in Household Decision Making" at the German Development Economics Conference on June 10th 2022

New publication by Janina Steinert, Henrike Sternberg and Hannah Prince in Science Advances

Prof. Janina Steinert presents research project "Doing No Harm To Research Staff When Conducting Research in the Global South" at Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) 2022 Virtual Annual Meeting

Prof. Janina Steinert talks about COVID-19 vaccination scepticism in Europe in an interview with DW

New publication by Prof. Janina Steinert in PLOS Medicine: Impact of Cash-Plus Programmes on Child Development

Shruti Shukla has been awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Studienstifung des deutschen Volkes

New publication by Prof. Janina Steinert in BMJ Open: "Response strategies for promoting gender equality in public health emergencies: a rapid scoping review"