BUILDING EUROPE'S CAMPUS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH
Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) covers a wide range of scientific areas, such as:
- Digits and Data
- Earth and Environment
- Languages and Cultures
- Life and Health
- Physics
- Systems and Communities
In relation to global health, LMU hosts a variety of outstanding groups and departments conducting cutting-edge research on many different health-related aspects. Among others, they include:
- Tropical Medicine / International Health (Prof. M. Hölscher)
The focus is on various infectious and tropical diseases, such as Corona/COVID-19, malaria and other parasitosis, HIV infection, tuberculosis, Buruli ulcer and leprosy.
- Global public health (Prof. E. Rehfuess)
Methods for evidence-based public health, systematic reviews of complex interventions, evaluation of complex interventions, household air pollution in developing countries, child health in low and middle-income countries.
- Global mental health (Prof. A. Jobst)
Global care research, development cooperation, international cooperation in medical research education, mental health developmental exchange with low and middle-income countries.
- FASD (Prof. F. Heinen)
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders from a global perspective.
- Occupational and Environmental Health (Prof. K. Radon)
Work and environment as determinants of global health, focus on epidemiologic research.
- Virtual training (Prof. K. Radon)
Online training methods for global health including virtual reality, gamification, project-based learning, learning apps etc.
- Global medical education (Prof. M. Siebeck)
Medical training on a global scale with a focus on Ethiopia and Bhutan.
- Veterinary Medicine (Prof. M. Meissner/Prof. N. Siegel)
Parasitology.
- Health Economics (Prof. R. Leidl)
Financing of health care services, determination of the services to be reimbursed through economic evaluation, competition and regulation in health care markets, management of service providers.
- Work and organisational psychology (Prof. E. Spieß)
Cultures of learning and cooperation, intercultural action in business-related contexts, health-conscious leadership and social support in organisations, cooperation in organisations, psychosocial health at work.