The Center for Global Health at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is concerned with the promotion of health as well as with the prevention of ill-health at a global level. It brings together and initiates research projects and teaching activities that address global health issues across different disciplines. The Center for Global Health therefore connects researchers of different faculties and their research foci. The Center for Global Health was founded in 2017 by the Professors Andrea Winkler and Clarissa Prazeres da Costa. The Center for Global Health is based at the medical faculty of TUM and is financed and supported by the Department of Neurology, Klinikum rechts der Isar / TUM (headed by Prof Hemmer) and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene at TUM (headed by Prof Busch). This collaboration demonstrates the interdisciplinary approach that is taken at TUM and that is vital for the activities of the Center for Global Health. Our activities include the establishment of collaborative projects that address relevant research questions in Global Health, teaching, as well as discussion forums looking at the different facets of Global Health. We have been able to build a large network of partners in the Global South, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia due to past and ongoing collaborations. We continuously expand those networks but also want to make them available to other researchers in order to support them in giving their research activities a global footprint.
