Fighting of the diseases: Charité starts Global Health Initiative!

Fighting of the diseases: Charité starts Global Health Initiative!

Berlin, Deutschland - On December 21, 2024, Prof. Kroemer thanks the Charité employees in a video message on the occasion of the upcoming Christmas holidays. He praises their commitment in a challenging year in which the healthcare system is faced with significant changes. In particular, the hospital reform and the tense financial situation in Berlin affect the work on the Charité. Despite the uncertainties that many industries experience, Kroemer sees the Charité well positioned and assures that the requirements for jobs will continue to exist in the future. "What the Charité does is permanently necessary," explains Kroemer. This should be promoted in particular by new innovations and treatment approaches that are developed in the laboratories and clinical studies, as reported by the Charité-Portal

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Another important step in the field of global health is the appointment of Prof. Dr. Beate Kampmann as head of the Institute for International Health at the Charité. From January 1, 2023, she will be with Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten lead the new Charité Centrum Global Health (CCGH). Kampmann, an internationally recognized expert in international children's health, returns from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to Germany to reorganize the institute and strengthen the networking of global health initiatives. The area of ​​global engagement in the CCGH is intended to develop strategic initiatives to improve global health in order to react to challenges such as pandemics and epidemics, such as the Einstein Stiftung

Kampmann emphasizes the need for comprehensive international cooperation and the exchange of proven practices in order to cope with the challenges in the health sector more effectively. Under her and Drosten's management, the institute will be an important player in global health research by bringing different disciplines together and developing innovative approaches to deal with infectious diseases.