Ela Sauerborn, B.A.

Medical, Philosophy and Sociology student at LMU and TUM. In her B.A.-thesis, she conducted a global systematic review and ethical evaluation of gender-based violence apps through the lens of structural injustice. She is a scholar of the German National Academic Merit Foundation. Currently responsible for the organization of the Workshop on Digital Behavioural Technology, Vulnerability and Justice, in cooperation with the Bavarian School of Public Policy (TUM) in 2019.

Research interests

• Public and Global Health Ethics
• One Health and Infectious Diseases
• Epidemiology and Population Health
• Social Justice and Structural Injustice
• Political Philosophy

Research projects

• Mobile Applications against GBV

Short CV

Ela Sauerborn has recently completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy (major) and Sociology (minor) at the LMU Munich. Furthermore, she has studied medicine at the Technical University Munich and the University of Lausanne and is currently in the final year of her medical studies. In her Bachelor thesis, she explored the socio-structural causes and ramifications of gender-based violence (GBV) and assessed whether the dimension of structural injustice is (sufficiently) reflected in mobile health intervention strategies against GBV.

Awards and fellowships

• 2013-now Scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
• 02/2018-08/2018 Scholarship by the Swiss European Mobility Programme (SEMP)