Program

For three days, journalists will meet other knowledgeable mediators of information from different regions of the world in Innsbruck. In conversations with colleagues and other experts, visitors find out what is going on behind the scenes of the information on international events, which is often hastily and superficially conveyed, and can contribute.

Current social, political and cultural developments are the focus of the debates, from book presentations, exhibitions, doc-films and audio features. The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

City Library

Medicine with Equal Opportunities and No Discrimination

Conversation

For a long time, gender-specific aspects of disease were overlooked in medical research and education — including in Austria. Due to differing symptoms certain conditions were often identified later in women, but also in men, which resulted in poorer treatment results. The healthcare system still fails to properly consider the needs of people with disabilities, and medical students receive limited training on this topic. Also concerns of migrants need to be adequately addressed in healthcare. Furthermore, it is important to ask what age-appropriate medicine would look like.
Together with the Institute for Diversity in Medicine the Medical University of Innsbruck set out to conduct research on gender differences as well as other diversity aspects in healthcare, prevention, pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy and to impart this knowledge on diversity-related topics in medicine. Our Bodies is a feminist health magazine and a rare example of media raising awareness for gender-specific issues among the general public.

Elisabeth Pittermann
Health Spokesperson of the Austrian Pensioners’ Association, PVÖ

Belachew Gebrewold
Head of the Department and Programme for Social Work, MCI, Innsbruck

Sabine Ludwig
Head of the Institute for Diversity in Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck

Brigitte Theißl
Editor for Our Bodies Magazine

Hosted by
Elke Ziegler
Science Journalist, ORF

German. Thanks to the support of the advisory council for people with disabilities of the City of Innsbruck, this event is interpreted in Austrian Sign Language

Free admission

In collaboration with the Medical University of Innsbruck

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Die Mitwirkenden

Wir freuen uns auf Journalist*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und NGOs aus verschiedenen Regionen der Welt.

Die Schauplätze

Die Veranstaltungsorte des Festivals liegen im Zentrum von Innsbruck. Sie sind zu Fuß gut zu erreichen.

Info

Informationen über Tickets, Anreise, Unterkünfte, Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel und Aktuelles zur Region Innsbruck.

A weekend with a view

Program

Medicine with Equal Opportunities and No Discrimination