Dear fellow healthcare practitioners, dear students, dear interested guests,

we would like to invite you to the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Tropical Paediatrics and International Child Health (GTP) in May 2025. We welcome you to join us in the discussion around Decolonizing Global Health, especially emphasizing the right to health for all children worldwide.

The major objective of the conference is to facilitate critical reflection and constructive dialogue regarding the historically shaped power imbalances and structures in the field of global health research, teaching, and practice between high-income countries and low-income countries.

During the conference, we will listen to and discuss with international experts, researchers and practitioners to analyze the given structures and challenges of global child health and discuss new ways of achieving more equitable health care. Together, we would like to encourage the discourse and engage in the process of re-imagining global child health through interactive workshops, input presentations and panel discussions.

In addition to clinical topics, we will be addressing the following issues:

• Global Child Health Today: International perspectives and challenges for the health and well-being of children worldwide, including violence, conflict and war
• Addressing inequities through the lens of intersectionality: In-depth exploration of racism and other forms of discrimination affecting child health and well-being
• Decolonizing International Cooperation? A conversation on histories, experiences, powers, and perspective

The pre-conference workshops will be dedicated to topics such as:

• Clinical training, including the established ETAT+ system (Emergency Triage, Assessment, and Treatment), pediatric ultrasound, and interdisciplinary training for health professionals
• Health professionals and climate change: challenges and solutions
• Raising awareness for female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)
• Media analysis of racist and colonial narratives and their influence on current discourses

The conference intends to be a place for exchange and reflection, a space for all of those who want to combine clinical input with critical examination of the inequities that persist in global child health to this day. Together, we will explore how international and cross-cultural cooperation for health equity can be achieved without perpetuating colonial structures, offering inspiration for sustainable change.

We look forward to welcoming you and having lively discussions.

Medizinisches Lehrzentrum Gießen (Klinikstraße 29, 35392 Gießen, Germany)

Last Update: December 2024
Conference Language: English/German

Nota bene: Photos and videos will be taken during the event to publicize the GTP and its projects

12:00 PM

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

6:00 PM – 6:30 PM

6:60 PM – 7:45 PM

8:00 PM

Registration

Workshops and board meeting GTP e.V.
details below

Keynote: Anuj Kapilashrami, Univ. Essex/UK

Panel 1: dialogue on decolonizing global child health

Get Together

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

12:30 PM – 12:45 PM

12:45 PM – 1:00 PM

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Clinical Presentations (GTP e.V.), slot 1
Presentation of clinically relevant research and implementation projects and initiatives

Coffee Break

Panel 2: Global Child Health Today:
International perspectives and challenges for the health and wellbeing of children worldwide, including violence, conflict and war

Lunch Break

Addressing inequities through the lens of intersectionality:
In-depth exploration of racism and other forms of discrimination affecting child health and well-being

Coffee Break

Breakout-groups
Opportunity for joining moderated breakout groups (in different languages: English, German, French) for discussion and joint reflection of topics, impressions, ideas related to the panels in parallel small groups

Posterwalk

General Assembly GTP e.V. & Afternoon activity

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

12:30 PM – 12:45 PM

12:45 PM – 1:00 PM

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Clinical Presentations (GTP e.V.), slot 2
Presentation of clinically relevant research and implementation projects and initiatives

Coffee Break

Panel 4: Decolonizing International Cooperation?
A conversation on histories, experiences, powers, and perspectives

Helmut Wolf Award ceremony

Farewell & invitation to GTP conference 2026

Lunch/Snac

Deadline: 31.01.2025

We invite you to submit abstracts of your research, projects, or clinical work related to the themes of our conference. Submissions will be systematically reviewed and considered for an oral or poster presentation.

Please send your abstract to: gtp2025abstracts@globalchildhealth.de

The Helmut Wolf Prize will be awarded among the submitted abstracts.

Conference fee

To be announced soon

CME Points

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Cancellation policy

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The content of this event will be designed to be product and service neutral. We confirm that the scientific management and the speakers will disclose potential conflicts of interest to the participants.

General inquiries and comments (not for registration): Information coming soon

Registration: Information coming soon

Banking details

Gesellschaft für Tropenpädiatrie und
Internationale Kindergesundheit (GTP) e. V.
Volksbank Ahlen-Sassenberg-Warendorf
IBAN: DE 95 4126 2501 1102 1632 03
BIC: GENODEM1AHL
Reference: “GTP2025 fee, your name and surname”
Abstract Submission: Information coming soon