How it all started
Our journey began at the Global Health Summer School in Paris, 2023, an event marked by its vibrant exchange of ideas and diverse cultural interactions.
About project
“One Health or Many Health? A Multidisciplinary, Multicultural Approach to Global Health.” (VersaHealth) is a Circle U. seed funded project with the aim to analyse the diverse perspectives and challenges in global health.
A workshop on challenges and perspectives related to global health will be organized in Belgrade, Serbia.
This project is a unique assembly of perspectives and approaches from different academic and cultural backgrounds, emphasizing the importance of diverse methodologies in understanding and addressing global health issues.
The main goals of the project are: a) to identify and critically assess the different perspectives and approaches to challenges in global health, b) to distinguish the differences and similarities in contemporary challenges in public health in each of the partner universities’ countries and beyond.
The lecturers in the workshop will be PhD students from different faculties (Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies) of partner universities with different fields of study (migrant law, social history of medicine, medical ethics, the health-security nexus, communicable diseases control, the burden of non-communicable diseases).
Our team
Aleksa Jovanović
Aleksa Jovanović currently works as a Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, where he is also a Ph.D. candidate and resident. Since earning his Medical Doctor degree from same faculty in 2017, Jovanović has actively engaged in both research and teaching. He has participated in two Horizon 2020 projects – TAXINOMISIS: “A multidisciplinary approach for the stratification of patients with carotid artery disease”, and “Study of monitoring immunization effects against COVID-19 diseases in Serbia”, which is part of the clinical research network VACCELERATE. While his research has primarily centered on non-communicable diseases, including multiple sclerosis, aortic aneurysm, and carotid artery disease, his research field also encompasses studies in immunization. He has authored or coauthored 17 publications listed in the Journal Citation Reports.
Andrija Pavlović
Andrija Pavlovic works as a teaching assistant at the Department of Humanities within the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. This role allows him to share his passion for both medicine and medical academia with future generations of healthcare professionals. Following graduation from the Faculty of Medicine, Andrija embarked on a path of continuous learning, pursuing a Master’s degree in Bioethics and a PhD in Biomedical Informatics. His research interests focus on the ethical landscape of research in medicine. Andrija actively contributes to the field through his research publications.
Dewi Delf
Dewi Delf is a PhD candidate at King’s College London, in the department of Global Health and Social Medicine. She studies global health, security, and international law, with a focus on global equitable access to pandemic vaccines, and particularly, vaccine nationalism, as a hindrance to global equitable vaccine access. She is also a research collaborator at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research for a project focused on health systems’ policy and innovation in a post-COVID era. She holds a Bachelor’s Law degree from the University of Nantes (FR) and received an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Leiden (NL).
Ivana Nikolić
Ivana Nikolić holds a bachelor’s degree in law and a master’s degree in European Integration, both earned at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of International Law at the same university, her research focuses on migration in international law, legal analysis of gender equality, and the legal perspective on global health. Her doctoral research is on the Right to Family reunification in the European Union and Serbia. In addition to her academic pursuits, she has worked as a legal consultant in the Ministry of Mining and Energy. Currently, Ivana works as a legal consultant at Energoming LLC and is a core member of the civil association Collegium SPRQ.
Sophia Bauer
Sophia Bauer studied architecture, history and medicine in Vienna and obtained her bachelor´s and master´s degree in history from the University of Vienna. Currently, she does her PhD in history at the University of Vienna and works as a documentation assistant at the Department of Anatomy at the Medical University of Vienna. There she is involved with several research projects delving into different aspects of the history of anatomy in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire between the 18th and 20th Century. In her PhD thesis Sophia Bauer investigates Anatomical teaching practices and their materiality at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna between 1848 and 1914.
Vladimir Nikolić
Vladimir Nikolić finished his medical studies at the University of Belgrade in 2017 and then enrolled in PhD studies in Medical Sciences, module Epidemiology. Since 2018, he has been employed at the Institute of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade where he currently works as a teaching assistant. At the same institution he is specializing in Epidemiology. He was involved in significant projects and working groups, notably contributing to national and international studies on COVID-19, hospital infections, and antimicrobial consumption. In July 2022, he was appointed as secretary of the working group for a national study on hospital-associated infections and antibiotic use. He has 19 papers published in journals from the JCR (Journal Citation Reports) list. Through engagement in national and international projects, Dr. Nikolić contributes to the development and application of new knowledge in practice, especially in the field of infection prevention and control.
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