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Table 2 Characteristics of survey participants (entry numbers are indicated in parentheses; multiple answers were possible)

From: Global health education in Germany: an analysis of current capacity, needs and barriers

Educator characteristics

Average age

49

Affiliated Institutions

- Akkon University for Human Sciences

- Berlin School of Public Health

- Charité – University Medicine Berlin

- German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association (DAHW)

- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences

- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology

- Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

- Medical Mission Institute Würzburg (2)

- Ulm University

- University of Applied Sciences Fulda

- University of Bonn

- University of Bremen (2)

- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

- University of Freiburg (3)

- University of Giessen

- University of Göttingen

- University of Greifswald

- University of Heidelberg (2)

- University of Marburg (2)

- University of Münster

- World Health Organization

Affiliated Departments (four educators did not specify their department)

- Biological Anthropology

- Center for Medicine and Society

- Department of General Practice

- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy

- Economics (2)

- Epidemiology and Health

- Ethics and History of Medicine (3)

- Family Medicine

- Health Economics

- Health Sciences

- Health Systems and Public Health

- History of Medicine

- Humanitarian Assistance

- Institute for Community Medicine

- Institute for Social Medicine

- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology

- International Disaster and Catastrophe Relief

- Nursing and Health

- Pediatrics (2)

- Prevention and Evaluation

- Public Health

- Tropical Medicine

- Tropical Medicine and Global Health Teaching Unit

Degrees

- Human Medicine (25)

- Public Health (13)

- Advanced training in tropical medicine (4)

- International Health (2)

- Economics (2)

- Ethics (2)

- Epidemiology (2)

- Political sciences (2)

- Biology (1)

- Theology (1)

- Psychology (1)

Positions (two educators did not specify their position)

- Head of department (4)

- Senior Lecturer (2)

- Guest Lecturer (3)

- Professor (7)

- Assistant Professor (2)

- Junior Professor (1)

- Programme Coordinator (5)

- Others (4)

Student characteristics

Average age

26

Universities (one student did not specify the university)

- Charité – University Medicine Berlin (3)

- University of Bonn

- University of Freiburg (3)

- University of Giessen (3)

- University of Göttingen

- University of Heidelberg (3)

- University of Jena

- University of Mainz (2)

- University of Marburg

- University of Regensburg (3)

- University of Tübingen (2)

- University of Würzburg (2)

- Ruhr University Bochum

- Technical University Munich

Degree program (two students did not specify their degree program)

- Human Medicine (24)

- Pharmacy (2)