See the Global Health Hub in action

The Knowledge Hub on Global Health addresses the pressing issue of global and local health challenges and seeks to develop strategies for providing better healthcare and prevention for all. 

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Academic Chairs and admin colleagues at their 2026 lakeside retreat. Photo: Franziska Helms

Academic Chair Retreat: The Alliance’s Backbone Assembled

24 Mar. 2026
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Circle U. Summer Schools 2026: Apply Now!

28 Jan. 2026
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What to look forward to in 2026?

18 Dec. 2025
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A Look Back at the "Rethinking Global Health" Summer School

30 Jul. 2025

Events

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2026

Open Conversation: One Planet–One Health? New Challenges for Medical Thinking in times of Climate Change

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Feb.
2026

Academic matchmaking: Co-creating joint courses for Circle U.

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28
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2026

Discover the Circle U. Summer Schools

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2025

Circle U. Christmas Lecture: Water, Agriculture and Health in a Changing Climate

Offers

Students in Polo Piagge. Credits: University of Pisa
Master 0 ECTS

Global health: an interdisciplinary perspective

Since global health is a cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary and international field of enquiry that requires skills and tools from the human, life, legal, economic and social sciences as well as medical sciences, the course involves professionals from a wide variety of disciplines and contexts as lecturers, drawing on the experience and expertise represented within the Interdisciplinary Centre for Peace Sciences at the University of Pisa and the Global Health knowledge hub of the European Alliance Circle U.
Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development
Master 3 ECTS

Confronting poverty: uniting disciplines for global impact

Workshop for master students organized as part of Circle U. seed funded project "Confronting poverty: uniting disciplines for global impact".
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PhD 5 ECTS

Rethinking Global Health

The 2024 Edition of the Summer school "Rethinking Global Health" will be held from July 1st to July 6th, 2024 in Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium). Please submit your application by 15 March 2024.
Circle U. Joint Seminar in Oslo
Master 5 ECTS

Politics of Sustainability in Public Health - Data-Driven Critical Conceptual Analysis

The course aims to provide a platform for students from different countries and disciplines to come together and examine powerful concepts that frame public health policy, such as sustainability, well-being, equity, partnership, and empowerment.
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Master 5 ECTS

Summer School: Clinical Global infectious diseases

The course will give an introduction to major infectious diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, yellow fever and others with emphasis on geographical distribution, difference in morbidity and mortality between different parts of the world, clinical signs and symptoms, diagnosis, prevention and control.
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Bachelor 10 ECTS

Corporate Sustainability Law

Corporate sustainability concerns the contribution of business to sustainability, which is necessary if we are going to be able achieve overarching sustainability goals in this decade of action towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Watch our Open Conversations

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Open Conversations are among the flagship educational formats of the Circle U. Open Campus. They are hybrid events aimed at all Circle U. staff, students, external partners, and the wider public.

Open Conversations foster interdisciplinary exchange across Circle U.'s thematic areas. The topics addressed are highly relevant to students and encourage critical reflection on pressing global challenges, European values, and/or the role of universities in a world in transition.

With a strong emphasis on student engagement and diverse, inclusive dialogue, Open Conversations bring together emerging and experienced speakers of different ages, backgrounds, and perspectives.

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Meet the team

Academic Director

Jean-Philippe Empana
Prof. Jean-Philippe Empana
  • Academic Director
  • Université Paris Cité
MD, PhD and co-team leader of an INSERM research team dedicated to cardiovascular disease epidemiology (CVD) in Paris, France. Main areas of expertise: risk prediction, big…
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Academic chairs

Aleksandra Buha Djordjevic
Dr. Aleksandra Buha Djordjevic
  • Academic Chair
  • University of Belgrade
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Christoph Gradmann
Prof. Dr. Christoph Gradmann
  • Academic Chair
  • University of Oslo
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Peter Gropel
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Peter Gröpel
  • Academic Chair
  • University of Vienna
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Juergen Koenig
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen König
  • Academic Chair
  • University of Vienna
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Rosie Mayston
Dr. Rosie Mayston
  • Academic Chair
  • King's College London
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Lara Tavoschi
Dr. Lara Tavoschi
  • Academic Chair
  • University of Pisa
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Sandy Tubeuf
Prof. Sandy Tubeuf
  • Academic Chair
  • UCLouvain
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Christian Wejse
PhD Christian Morberg Wejse
  • Academic Chair
  • Aarhus University
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Pascal Grosse
Priv.-Doz. Pascal Grosse
  • Academic Chair
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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