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We strive to celebrate diversity of cul-
tures and thoughts among our staff and
students, commensurate with our global
orientation in research and teaching.
Examples for social events include ethnic
cooking sessions, yoga groups, hiking/
biking events, film clubs, parties, whether
it be for celebrating birthdays, vital events,
doctoral defences or christmas/season
parties to name just a few.
In 2012, the Institute will celebrate its 50th
anniversary with a symposium "Global
Health in the 21st Century" (September
13-15). With its roots in the South Asia Insti-
tute, its change to the Institute of Hygiene,
the focus on global health with the integra-
tion of clinical tropical medicine in the newly
founded "Department of Infectious Disea-
ses" the institute will attempt an outlook to
the challenges lying ahead, from universal
coverage, climate change the continuing
threat of infectious diseases and the rising
pandemic of non-communicable diseases
in an aging world. At the same time the
institute will celebrate (with) its partners in
the North and the South.
www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/Global-
Health-Symposium.124596.0.html
Jubilee Conference
Humboldt Fellow Maduni Madanayake (left side) meeting Federal President Gauck in Berlin.