Germany's expanding role in global health

Abstract

Health (Zukunftsforum Public Health) embraces this approach, and calls for broad support in the integration of the public health service and academic infrastructures in the 16 states, and at the federal level by schools of public health. Matching-or even shapinginter national best practice, both in scope and structure, should be the ambition.We declare no competing interests.

Global child health in Germany - Time for action

“…Although Germany has successful research groups in maternal and child public health that collaborate internationally, for example at the universities in Hamburg, Heidelberg and Munich, there is no such overarching forum to share ideas, to develop strategies and to provide direction. It is the private Witten/Herdecke University that has the only professorship for global child health, funded by the Friede Springer Foundation [ 9 ]. The German Society for Tropical Paediatrics and International Child Health (GTP) is a professional society established almost 40 years ago with about 400 current members which brings together paediatricians with different backgrounds at its annual meetings and offers a range of trainings, but its mandate for research is limited [ 10 ].…”