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.
Check out our video to learn more about this hub.
Latest on the Knowledge Hub on Global Health
Events
International Workshop "Meaning, Method, and Practice: Integrating Medical Humanities and Field Philosophy in Health Communication"
CANCELLED Open Conversation: Remembering the Covid-19 Pandemic
Info session: How to internationalise your teaching with COIL
Open Conversation: What works, when, how and why: Promising practices for a more hopeful future
Watch the Knowledge Hub on Global Health's Open Conversations
Open Conversations are hybrid conferences addressing global challenges through an interdisciplinary perspective. Those events are open to students, academics, staff, and the public outside of Circle U.
Offers
Open Conversation: One Planet–One Health? New Challenges for Medical Thinking in times of Climate Change
The Interdisciplinary Summer School on Cognitive Neuroscience
From Impact to Action: Transforming Experimental Labs for a Sustainable Future
Global health: an interdisciplinary perspective
Confronting poverty: uniting disciplines for global impact
Rethinking Global Health
Watch our Open Conversations
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.
Meet the team
Academic Director
Prof. Jean-Philippe Empana
- Academic Director
- Université Paris Cité
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 data and novel approach in the prevention of CVD including primordial prevention (prevention of risk factors onset).
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INSERM, Paris Cardiovascular Research Centre
Academic chairs
Dr. Aleksandra Buha Djordjevic
- Academic Chair
- University of Belgrade
Dr. Aleksandra Buha Djordjevic
- Academic Chair
- University of Belgrade
Aleksandra Buha Djordjevic is a pharmacist holding a PhD degree in Toxicology. Her research focus in on the environmental contaminants and their effects on human health. As a member of many international working groups and consortiums, she is actively involved in environmental and global health promotion.
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Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Belgrade
Prof. Dr. Christoph Gradmann
- Academic Chair
- University of Oslo
Prof. Dr. Christoph Gradmann
- Academic Chair
- University of Oslo
Christoph Gradmann is professor in the history of medicine at the University of Oslo. His research interests range from the intellectual history of interwar Germany, through 19th ct medical bacteriology, 20th ct drug development, antibiotics resistances to the history of tuberculosis in global health. He has published several monographs, numerous editions, guest editorships and many papers.
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Professor in History of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Oslo
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Peter Gröpel
- Academic Chair
- University of Vienna
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Peter Gröpel
- Academic Chair
- University of Vienna
I am a professor of sport psychology and licensed sport psychologist with 15 years of experience in sport and performance psychology, both in laboratory and the field. The main professional interest is on promoting performance in high demanding situations, such as when being fatigued, mentally exhausted or under extensive pressure, with applications in sports, medicine, emergency services, and performing arts. Additional work includes motivation to and health-related benefits of sport and exercise at the workplace, and antecedents of work-life balance and well-being. In psychological terminology, my research integrates fields of motivation and self-regulation, choking under pressure, well-being, and health.
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Department of Sport Science
University of Vienna
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen König
- Academic Chair
- University of Vienna
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen König
- Academic Chair
- University of Vienna
Specialized Human Nutrition – We are interested in the mechanisms of hunger and satiety regulation, combining psychological (stress, food craving, restricted eating, visual and sensory food clues) and physiological aspects. Moreover, we evaluate the nutrition behaviour within the Austrian population with respect to safety issues and supply with nutrients.
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Department of Nutritional Sciences
University of Vienna
Dr. Rosie Mayston
- Academic Chair
- King's College London
Dr. Rosie Mayston
- Academic Chair
- King's College London
I am a mixed methods global health researcher with training in anthropology, demography and epidemiology. My work spans three inter-linked areas of health research in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC): depression, integrated care and ageing. I am particularly interested in global health capacity-building, equitable partnership and education.
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Department of Global Health & Social Medicine
King's College London
Dr. Lara Tavoschi
- Academic Chair
- University of Pisa
Dr. Lara Tavoschi
- Academic Chair
- University of Pisa
Lara Tavoschi is senior researcher in Public Health at the University of Pisa. She worked at the Italian National Institute of Health and the European Centre for Disease prevention and Control on translational research and evidence-based public health. She is dedicated to prevention and control of communicable diseases, with a focus on socially-deprived population groups.
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Senior Researcher in Public Health
School of Medicine, University of Pisa
Prof. Pietro Coletti
- Academic Chair
- UCLouvain
Prof. Pietro Coletti
- Academic Chair
- UCLouvain
Pietro Coletti joined UCLouvain as an assistant professor in September 2024, conducting his research at the Institute for Health and Society Research (IRSS) and teaching at the Faculty of Public Health. A computational epidemiologist specialising in infectious disease modelling, he focuses in particular on the impacts of climate change on public health.
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Faculty of Public Health
Université catholique de Louvain
PhD Christian Morberg Wejse
- Academic Chair
- Aarhus University
PhD Christian Morberg Wejse
- Academic Chair
- Aarhus University
Christian Morberg Wejse is a research clinician who is a specialist in infectious diseases and professor at Aarhus University Hospital, with a research focus on tuberculosis and HIV in low-income countries, COVID-19 and migrant health. He has founded and directs GloHAU, Center for Global Health, Aarhus University.
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Faculty of Health
Aarhus University
Priv.-Doz. Pascal Grosse
- Academic Chair
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Priv.-Doz. Pascal Grosse
- Academic Chair
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Pascal Grosse is a historian and practising neurologist with a sub-specialisation in neurological sleep medicine. He studied medicine, history, psychology, and history of medicine at Freie Universität Berlin and has been working at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin since graduation. The focus in his historical work lies on the theory and practises of biopolitics including especially European and German colonialism, but also many other topics with bio-political implications. He has also become involved in innovations in medical education, as such he currently serves as an Academic Chair in the Circle U - European University Alliance to push forward topics related to Global Health in a broad European context.
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Faculty of Medicine
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
pascal.grosse@charite.de
