Sophie Gepp

Rese­arch Asso­cia­te

Mini CV

  • At CPHP sin­ce Janu­ary 2022
  • Medi­cal doc­to­ra­te in the working group Cli­ma­te Chan­ge and Health at Cha­ri­té – Uni­ver­si­täts­me­di­zin Ber­lin and Pots­dam Insti­tu­te for Cli­ma­te Impact Rese­arch
  • Medi­cal stu­dies, Cha­ri­té – Uni­ver­si­täts­me­di­zin Ber­lin
  • MSc Public Health, Lon­don School of Hygie­ne and Tro­pi­cal Medi­ci­ne

Pro­fi­le

Sophie Gepp is a Rese­arch Asso­cia­te at the Cent­re for Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Poli­cy (CPHP) in Ber­lin and works on Glo­bal Gover­nan­ce of Pla­ne­ta­ry Health. She is curr­ent­ly pur­suing her medi­cal doc­to­ra­te in the Cli­ma­te Chan­ge and Health Working Group at Cha­ri­té – Uni­ver­si­täts­me­di­zin Ber­lin and the Pots­dam Insti­tu­te for Cli­ma­te Impact Rese­arch. She has also been a con­sul­tant for inter­na­tio­nal orga­niza­ti­ons on cli­ma­te chan­ge and health and is doing rese­arch on gen­der equi­ty in glo­bal health at Glo­bal Health 50/50. She is a mem­ber of the stee­ring com­mit­tee of the Glo­bal Health Hub Ger­ma­ny.

Lan­guages

Ger­man
Eng­lish
French
Spa­nish

Focus Are­as

Glo­bal trans­for­ma­ti­on for pla­ne­ta­ry health

CPHP-Publi­ca­ti­ons

2023
Mai­ke Voss, Sophie Gepp, Niko­laus C.S. Mez­ger, Dr. Fran­zis­ka Mat­thies-Wies­ler, Bea Alber­mann, Mai­ke Bild­hau­er
Dri­ving trans­for­ma­ti­ve action: from Ost­ra­va to Buda­pest and bey­ond with Natio­nal Port­fo­li­os of Actions on Envi­ron­ment and Health: poli­cy brief
This WHO poli­cy brief was draf­ted by Mai­ke Voss and Fran­zis­ka Mat­thies-Wies­ler with addi­tio­nal rese­arch sup­port from Bea Alber­mann, Sophie Gepp, Mau­rice Remy, Niko­laus Metz­ger and Mai­ke Bild­hau­er.
2022
Mai­ke Voss, Katha­ri­na Wab­nitz, Doro­thea Baltruks, Sophie Gepp, Rem­co van de Pas
Health within pla­ne­ta­ry boun­da­ries
Open ques­ti­ons for poli­cy­ma­kers, sci­en­tists and health actors.

Resour­ces

2024
Sophie Gepp, Ami­t­eshwar Singh, Tarek Ezzine, Ren­zo R. Guin­to, Rob­bie M. Parks, Mee­lan Thon­doo, Poor­va­prab­ha Patil, Kim R. van Daa­len
Reflec­tions from COP28: Resis­ting health washing in cli­ma­te chan­ge nego­tia­ti­ons
PLOS Glo­bal Public Health
2024
Sophie Gepp, Mel­vi­ne Anyango Oti­e­no, Kent Buse
Pla­ne­ta­ry health: chal­len­ging power and pri­vi­le­ge is key to a fai­rer and healt­hi­er future
in: The BMJ
2023
Katha­ri­na Wab­nitz, Sophie Gepp, Dr. Chris­ti­an Schulz, Lau­ra Jung, Sabi­ne Gab­rysch, Eva-Maria Schwi­en­horst-Stich, Fre­de­rick Schnei­der, Frie­de­ri­ke Gier­ke, Han­nah Otto, Syl­via Hart­mann, The­re­sa Gem­ke, Mari­scha Fast
The Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Academy—a vir­tu­al lec­tu­re series for trans­for­ma­ti­ve edu­ca­ti­on in Ger­ma­ny
2022
Sophie Gepp, Tian­ti­an Chen, Mireil­le Eva­go­ra-Camp­bell, Fiz­za Fati­ma, Erick Frei­re, The­pan Ganesh, Sophie Hamp­ton, Lara Holl­mann, Unsia Huss­ain, Vic­to­ria Olu­b­un­mi, Alex Par­ker, Ash­ley Shef­fel, Tre­asu­re Ude­chuk­wu, Zahra Zeina­li, David Zezai
Boards for all? A review of power, poli­cy and peo­p­le on the boards of orga­ni­sa­ti­ons acti­ve in glo­bal health
2022
Mai­ke Voss, Sophie Gepp, Sabi­ne Bau­nach
Cli­ma­te Chan­ge and Health
Poli­cy Brief: Think7 Task Force Cli­ma­te and Envi­ron­ment