On the 22nd of September, Lovro Markovic and Igor Grabovac were invited guests to an international conference focusing on the rights of trans people in Slovakia and Europe, organized by the Faculty of Law, Comenius University of Bratislava (partners of the WE-Project Consortium). In their presentations, Lovro and Igor focused on aspects of health and...
The third CANCERLESS Consortium meeting took place between 28th and 30th of September in Athens (Greece) organized by our partners – the PRAKSIS Organization. In an eventful 3 days, the Consortium discussed the most important issues, focusing on pilot implementation, and the progress from the piloting sites. Besides these, plans were made for the next...
The European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2022. After two years in the online format, the EHFG is coming back to Gastein and the Salzburg mountain landscape with a hybrid conference and on-site presence. From 27th to 29th September, under the title “A Moonshot for a True European Health Union: If...
Lead by our Maren Jeleff, a group of co-authors (including Lisa Lehner from our Group) just published a systematic review in Lancet Planetary Health, focusing on social science approaches to prevention of infectious diseases. The article entitled “Vulnerability and One Health assessment approaches for infectious threats from a social science perspective: a systematic scoping review”...
In order to promote a conscious approach to diversity at the Medical University of Vienna, MedUni Vienna awards the annual Veronika Fialka Moser Diversity Prize. The aim is to honour achievements in this area and make diversity visible. The prize is named after Veronika Fialka-Moser, Professor of Physical Medicine, in recognition of her many years of service in the field of diversity management at MedUni Vienna.
The CANCERLESS Consortium meeting held its first in person meeting since project began in June of last year. During two days of meeting held at wonderful Cambridge and organized by our partners Anglia Ruskin University, the Consortium discussed important aspects on the definition of activities of the Health Navigators and the implementation of the model in various settings.
On March 1st, the Medical University of Vienna marked the Gender Research Day (Tag der Geschlechterforschung) to promote the importance of gender and gender diversity in biomedical research and practice. To gain visibility on projects concerning aspects of gender diversity Igor Grabovac and Professor Alexandra Kautzky-Willer (Professor for Gender Medicine) gave their opinion on why including gender diversity in medicine and research is important.