Gender-Sensitive Medicine – Insights from Eight Joint Projects

In focus: Prof. Dr. Anke Hinney

“Genetic mechanisms in weight regulation and mental illness are my research focus – with gender-sensitive aspects always in the foreground.”

In focus: Prof. Dr. med. Sylvia Stracke, MME

“A central focus of my work is the integration of gender aspects into clinical medicine, (bio)medical research and guideline development.”

In focus: Dr. med. Anke Diehl, M.A.

“Digital transformation in medicine is my passion – avoiding gender bias and gender data gaps is very important to me.”

In focus: Miriam Stüldt-Borsetzky

“Interdisciplinary exchange helps to develop healthcare responsibly. I bring my experience from the interface of medicine, law, the insurance industry and healthcare into the project.”

In focus: Jonas Fischer

“The topic of trans* and non-binary people is often treated very carelessly, especially in medicine. I want to make sure this important aspect is not overlooked.”

In focus: Dr. med. Jonathan Apasu

“I am driven by the question of how modern technologies can make it easier for men to access their health. I bring this perspective to GenDiMedNet as a member of the expert advisory board.”

In focus: Thomas Altgeld

“Health promotion doesn't work without participation, and that starts with defining the problem. That's why our work is based on dialogue and doesn't target groups – nobody wants to be anybody's target group. It starts right there, with the terminology...”

In focus: Dr. Parinaz Yavarzadeh

“My vision is to make access to cardiology easier through innovative tools and, in particular, to close the gender gap in cardiology.”

In focus: Annette Strauch-Davey

“Data handling in GenDiMedNet, from the generation to the sustainable storage of sensitive research data, has been my area of work for over a decade. This is where I contribute my expertise to the project.”

In focus: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Theresa Sophie Busse

“In my research and teaching, I work on the equitable and participatory design of digital healthcare, and I am glad to contribute this to the project.”

In focus: Yuki Fukuda

“Gender-sensitive and accessible design begins with considering different lived realities. With my UX expertise, I want to help make interactive technologies more inclusive and closer to people's needs.”

In focus: Dr. Jana Luisa Aulenkamp

“I want to contribute in particular my clinical-scientific perspective from anaesthesiology, pain and emergency medicine as well as my experience in interdisciplinary research networks, and help to develop gender-sensitive technological approaches further in an evidence-based and practical way.”

In focus: Laila Wahle

“Thinking digitalisation from the process and creating standardised, interoperable interfaces is my goal for this project as well.”

In focus: Dr. med. Ute Teichert MPH

“At GenDiMedNet, I want to contribute my experience from public health, the public health service and health policy, and help to anchor gender-specific differences more firmly in prevention, care and health promotion. It is particularly important to me to translate scientific findings into practice and into political decision-making processes.”

In focus: Luisa Wasilewski

“Start-ups, digital business models and how we fund innovation are my topics. Here I contribute expertise and network.”

In focus: Dipl. Inf. Jan Schellenberger

“Gender-sensitive health applications require digital empathy: we are researching how gender-specific communication patterns in digital spaces can not only be taken into account but translated into trustworthy, accessible interactions.”

In focus: Prof. Pelin Celik

“I research in a playful way, among other things, how age and technology interact – and how systemic design can help make digital health technologies more diverse, understandable and accessible.”

In focus: Susanne Feldt

“Gender health is not a niche topic but an essential building block of personalised medicine. My research interest is prevention in midlife, with a holistic view of women's health. This is exactly what I want to bring to GenDiMedNet with hermaid.”

In focus: André Schlegel

“Visibility creates understanding. Shared knowledge creates change. Change begins where we no longer accept disadvantage.”

In focus: Cornelia Wanke

“My biggest concern is to achieve gender equity in prevention, care and in all areas of the healthcare system. Here I contribute my network and expertise in political communication.”

In focus: Prof. Dr. iur. Alexandra Jorzig

“As a professor and lawyer, I research law in digital healthcare and bring both perspectives together so that gender-sensitive technologies are built on a sound legal foundation.”

In focus: Dr. Andrea Kramer

“Gender-sensitive medicine has to arrive where it makes a difference: in care. I contribute my experience from many years of medical practice and from shaping care in statutory health insurance.”

In focus: Prof. Dr. Martina Schraudner

“Gender and diversity in technology and product development is much more than a 'nice to have' – it decides markets.”

In focus: Dr. med. Charlotte Kleen

“Strengthening couples' health through nightly sleep is my vision – establishing gender-sensitive screening services is my mission!”

In focus: Sebastian Paschen

“Community participation is an increasingly important topic in research – I not only work on it, but as an early-career researcher I also bring the perspective of the next generation into the project.”

In focus: Dr. Sandra Bobersky

“Avoiding even a single bias effect in medicine is a monumental task. At GenDiMedNet I can contribute my many years of expertise, from basic medical research to AI research, on both the technical and the organisational side, with a simultaneous view of academic research, private-sector care and science communication.”

In focus: Sandra Miller

“Innovation becomes progress when it is medically sensible, legally sound and genuinely usable for people – and when it considers gender-sensitive care from the very beginning.”

In focus: Meral Thoms, Member of the State Parliament

“Gender-sensitive medicine is a question of health equity and strengthens, in particular, the perspective of women.”

In focus: Christian Senfleben

“I bring my perspective as a founder in the health sector and my experience at the interface of science, technology and practical transfer. I am particularly interested in how innovative health solutions find their way into care, and I am happy to act as a sounding board.”