International Network Meeting "Midwifery"
The 2end international network meeting of the Hospital Partners Initiative will take place in Berlin, Germany on the 10th and 11th of February 2020. It will focus on the theme "Strengthening Midwifery". It will be run as a workshop led by MNestor Moyo, a specialised trainer, during the two days. The overall objective is to encourage a peer exchange between hospital partners to identify synergies and strengthen knowledge sharing between hospital partnerships in order to improve their management, implementation, and health outcomes in the respective field. Moreover, the goal is to foster a discussion on how hospital partnerships can contribute to midwifery education as a key solution to the challenge of providing universal and quality maternal and newborn care to meet Sustainable Development Goal 3.1.
Humanitarian Congress Berlin
The Hospital Partnerships Initiative – Partners strengthen Health will be present at the Humanitarian Congress in Berlin on October 17th and 18th, 2019. About 850 international experts and those with an interest will meet at the Urania Berlin e.V. to discuss current issues within the field of humanitarian action. This year’s event will focus on the climate change and its impact. The congress participants have the opportunity to inform themselves and seek advice at the booth of the Hospital Partnerships Initiative. The Humanitarian Congress is an annual event organized by Médecins Sans Frontières, Médecins du Monde, German Red Cross and Berlin Chamber of Physicians.
Further information can be found on the official website of the Humanitarian Congress.
122nd Doctors Day in the City Münster
From 28th to 31st of May 2019, the Initiative Hospital Partnerships – Partners strengthen Health will be present at the 122nd German Doctors Day in the Halle Münsterland in the city of Münster. At the annual meeting of the German medical profession on current health and socio-political discourses, actors from the medical and health sector have the opportunity to inform themselves about funding opportunities and advice at the initiative's stand. Further information can be found here: website of the German Medical Association.
Conference on Tropical Medicine & Global Health in Munich
This year the Initiative Hospital Partnerships – Partners strengthen Health is represented for the first time at the Conference on Tropical Medicine & Global Health. The conference will take place 4th until sixth of April 2019 at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. The program starts at 11 o’clock. At the interdisciplinary conference, the challenges of global health will be discussed in an interdisciplinary manner. The event is also the annual conference of the German Society for Tropical Medicine and International Health (DTG) and the Austrian Society for Tropical Medicine, Parasitology and Migration Medicine (ÖGTPM). The Initiative Hospital Partnerships- Partners strengthen Health will be present among other health projects of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Interested parties have the opportunity to inform themselves personally about funding opportunities and global health in the context of development cooperation. Further information: website of the German Society for Tropical Medicine.
136th congress of the German Society of Surgery
The Initiative Hospital Partnerships – Partners strengthen Health presents its program at the congress of the German Society of Surgery. The congress will take place from 26 to 29 March 2019 at the International Congress Center in Munich. At the annual congress, surgical and interdisciplinary topics will be discussed. The initiative Hospital Partnerships – Partners strengthen Health reports from selected projects and is available for questions. How Hospital Partnerships can contribute to a sustainable strengthening of health care systems in developing countries will be examined, as well as funding and networking opportunities. Further information: website of the German Society of Surgery.
Hospital Partnerships Initiative at Dental Show in Cologne
Together with the Hospital Partnerships Initiative, the conference plenum will organize a workshop for interested dentists. The aim of this workshop is to give an overview of the program, the funding options and the framework of international cooperation. Currently the Initiative accompanies six dental partnerships. The conference serves as an platform for knowldege transfer and exchange on updates within the scenery of aid cooperations and work.
Date and ttime: Friday, 15th of march 2019
11 am until 15:30 pm (with break))
Location: Congress-Centre East "Koelnmesse", „Kristallsaal“
Messeplatz 1
50679 Köln
For further Informationen you will find the programme online here.
The programme of the "Bundeszahnärztekammer" and its partners you will find here.
1st Regional Networking Meeting 'Hospital Partnerships – Partners Strengthen Health'
This two-day networking meeting between hospital partnerships in Malawi is scheduled to facilitate dialogue on hospital partnerships. Having representatives from the Ministry of Health take part should help strengthen national health systems.
The objective of the workshop is for the 40 participants – including partners, and representatives of government, GIZ and the ESTHER Alliance – to discuss how hospital partnerships can improve the quality of care in line with needs and make their results measurable. The agenda also includes two visits to partnership projects in Malawi.
Presentation of the Else Kröner Fresenius Award
The Else Kröner-Fresenius Award for Development Cooperation in Medicine is conferred in recognition of projects that improve medical care in developing countries. This year’s prize money of EUR 100,000, will be awarded in honour of projects on non-communicable diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and mental disorders. Every year up to 30 million people die as a result of these diseases in developing countries. Since 2015, non-communicable diseases have been the most common cause of death worldwide.
Click here to find out more about the terms and conditions for entry.
The award ceremony will be held on 22 November 2018 at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in Berlin.
World Health Summit – Session: “Hospital Partnerships for Improved Service Delivery”
The Hospital Partnerships – Partners Strengthen Health initiative will be presented at the World Health Summit. The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation (BMZ) and Development and the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation (EKFS) will be presenting the first set of results of 114 hospital partnerships. Partners and experts will discuss how institutional health partnerships can help sustainably strengthen health professionals and health systems.
