News
WS 23/24 Lecture series "Planetary Health"
ZMG has once again prepared a series of lecturers (Ringvorlesung): "Interdisciplinary - Integrative - International" perspectives on Planetary Health. Starting on 23rd October 2023 with the lecture of Dr. med. Karin Geffert, various topics will be discussed: planetary health, urban health, diseases, climate change. The lectures will always take place on Mondays at 18:15 in Frauenklinik (Hugstetter Str. 55, 79106 Freiburg, großer Hörsaal).
01/2023 New Homepage
The Master program on Global Urban Health is proud to introduce you its new homepage! From now on, all news will be published there.
06/2022 DAAD Special Grants for Refugees from Ukraine
The DAAD offers scholarships for students from Ukraine as well as students from countries of the DAC list fleeing the war in Ukraine to continue/complete their studies in Development-Related Postgraduate Courses in Germany. Application deadline: 30.06.2022. Find out more!
06/2022 Happy Hour with Roundtable Discussion
The Master GUH on behalf of ZMG would like to invite you to our Happy Hour with roundtable discussion on the cross cutting topic "From Obamacare to Trumpcare: Where does the US stand now on Health Care with Biden?". The speaker, Prof. Dr. Caprice Knapp, is our longtime USA collaborator involved in our Master and ZMG research and capacity building activities for many years.
05/2022 Early Warning Tools for Neglected Tropical Diseases
TUESDAY | 17 MAY | 12:00 – 1:30 PM (CEST) We would like to present the Early Warning and Response System and discuss with you Germany’s approach to end Neglected Tropical Diseases. Our scientific advisor Prof. Kroeger will be part of it!
WS 21/22 Lecture series "Planetary Health"
ZMG has prepared a series of lecturers (Ringvorlesung): "Interdisciplinary - Integrative - International" perspectives on Planetary Health. Starting on 25th October 2021 with the lecture of our ZMG Director, Prof. Dr. med. Hajo Grundmann, various topics will be discussed: health, diseases, anthropology, biodiversity, etc. The lectures will always take place on Mondays.
07/2021 Veranstaltung "Planetary Health: Ein Gesundheitskonzept für Erde und Menschen"
Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Sabine Gabrysch (Institut für Public Health (IPH), Professur für Klimawandel und Gesundheit, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin / Abteilung Klimaresilienz, Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK)) Online ab 10.07.21 /Forum am 17.07.21/
05/2021 Webinar "One year of Covid-19: What are the lessons learned?"
Two of our Master Alumni (Gabriela Pen and Dhia Joseph) decided to organise a webinar on the still very current topic of Covid-19. The webinar will take place on 31st May 2021 at 16:00. Different speakers will share the lessons after one year of this pandemic which globally impacted our lives but particularly the most vulnerable people.
05/2021 Dr. Sonia Diaz-Monsalve active in the Academic Advisory Board of GLOHRA
The Global Health Academy Opening Ceremony was hosted by the University of Bonn in an online event that attracted around 200 early career researchers and members of the German Alliance for Global Health Research, GLOHRA. Speakers from academia to the political sector expressed their support for this GLOHRA initiative, while panelists shared concrete ways of how the Academy can best support the development of global health researchers. Our teaching coordinator, Dr. Sonia Diaz-Monsalve, represented the University of Freiburg as part of the Academic Advisory Board.
12/2020 Marketplace
In order to develop new research activities, the ZMG organized a "Marketplace" on December 2nd, 2020.
07/2020 GHHG Webinar by MSc GUH
On Wednesday, 1 July 2020, 4 - 5 pm CEST, the Global Health Hub Germany (GHHG) will continue the discussion series on COVID-19 focusing on the topic "The social impact of Covid-19 containment measures in Low and Middle Income Countries".
04/2020 Dr. Sonia Diaz-Monsalve in the German Alliance for Global Health Research
Our teaching coordinator, Dr. Sonia Diaz-Monsalve, has been elected by the General Assembly of the BMBF's "German Alliance for Global Health Research" to become a member of its Steering Committee (SC).
08/2018 Alumni Update: News from Leah
Leah from Korea (Alumni first cohort 2016) is working with Save the Children in the Western region of Uganda. Her project is about Maternal Newborn Child Health, funded by Korean government. The project objectives are to increase utilization by community people and also to improve availability of MNCH services.
07/2018 Master Update: Current Research in Nepal
Our Master student Mazin from Sudan is implementing his research project: "Female Community Health Volunteers in Nepal, what can be their role in Visceral Leischmaniasis (VL) case detection and vector surveillance".
07/2018 GUH Master Update: Current Research in Colombia
Sara Jauregui from Bogota Colombia is currently implementing her master thesis "Improving the mental health of displaced population in Colombia: The impact of the training program for health care workers in two departments: Cesar and Guajira".
07/2018 GUH Master Update from Angelica in Colombia
The Master students are currently implementing their research projects in different countries across the globe.
04/2018 Alumni Update: Mojahidul Hossain in Copenhagen
Congratulations to Mojahidul Hossain (Moja), our 2017 Graduate from Bangladesh, who presented his poster at the EMS 2018 Congress in Copenhagen.
03/2018 PAGEL II Workshop Public Health
Summary Report: The second workshop in public health was carried out in Valledupar from 28.02 until 02.03 in the Camara de Comercio facilities. 19 participants from different disciplines from Secretaria de Salud from Cesar were present from 4 municipalities from Valledupar, La Jagua de Ibirico, Pelaya y la Paz (see photo attached). The participation from the second department la Guajira was unfortunately not possible. Unofficial information reported as reason "the lack of job contracts of the health staff". The facilitation team was composed by: Dres Enrique Penaloza and Andres Cubillos from Instituto Salud Publica, Universidad Javeriana and Dr. Sonia Diaz-Monsalve ZMG coordinator from University Freiburg in Germany.
01/2018 M.Sc. Global Urban Health - Now on Facebook!
We are on Facebook now!
2017/2018: Application for the Master on Global Urban Health
The Application period for the Wintersemester 2018/2019 has started! Please apply from the 1st of October until the 15th of April 2018.
News 2017
News from the year 2017 (archive).
