Global Health and Poverty summer school in Göttingen

The Global Health and Poverty summer school at the University of Göttingen will tackle topics related to central health issues with a focus on poverty and economic development at the global level. 30 international master’s and PhD students will meet in working groups from 28 May to 8 June 2018 to discuss issues, for example, the current state and resulting challenges of health systems in developing and emerging countries. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer, Chair of Development Economics / Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) of the University of Göttingen is organizing the summer school in cooperation with Göttingen International.

Participants will study what policy actions have been taken in developing and emerging countries to reduce communicable diseases such as HIV and AIDS, or the impact of the spread of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes on economic development.
In addition, the participants will take a two-day excursion to Berlin to meet with the Federal Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The program will also offer trips from Wartburg to Eisenach or a city tour of Göttingen with a focus on the founding of the university and its various medical innovations.

The summer school workshops are led by professors in the field of development economics at the University of Göttingen, the University Medical Center Göttingen, as well as the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Further information can be found here.