The 2025 summer school explores connections between violence, climate justice and health equity. We will employ a decolonial and intersectional approach and engage in multidisciplinary analysis of some structural causes of the climate crisis. We seek to envision alternatives and solutions grounded in practices of solidarity and empowerment.

This summer school will not focus on the impacts of climate change on human health per se. We will place our analysis within a framework of decolonial and intersectional critiques that identifies the climate crisis as one symptom of a centuriesold system of exploitation, in which the lives of some have always held more value than the lives of many. We will ask what that means for global health institutions and global health research. How are health systems affected by the climate crisis and how can they contribute to solutions that are emancipatory? What can we learn from communities that are building structures of resistance and solidarity in the face of destruction and violence? We will explore what all that means for our health work or our activism, individually and as a group.

During the summer school, researchers, activists and health professionals from different backgrounds are invited to share their expertise and strategies. Case studies and projects will be included as peer-to-peer learning in the form of participants workshops. We believe in a process-oriented approach to learning and therefore find it important to create space for reflection, group processes and a learning experience that builds on curiosity and respect for each other’s perspectives. We are very happy to be able to invite international students, particularly from Kenya, Zambia and Nepal, to the summer school as a result of a collaboration with Charité Berlin and IPPNW partner sections.

For more information, please have a look at the programme and the focus text. We will continuously add introductions to the speakers and their work on this website, so please visit again!