Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine

OE 5450

Hannover Medical School
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
D-30625 Hannover
Phone: +49 511-532-4159

E-mail: bruenig.lisa@mh-hannover.de

Lisa Brünig works as a research associate in the project “Discrimination in healthcare—experiences in the context of racism, disability, and gender,” which is funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture. From 2020 to 2025 Lisa has been working as the coordinator of the Competence Centre for Gender-Sensitive Medicine at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at the MHH.

She completed her Bachelor's degree in Political Science in the study programme "Public Administration with a focus on European Studies" at the WWU Münster and the University of Twente in Enschede. In her Bachelor's thesis entitled "Immigrant Health in Germany. An intersectional perspective on migration policies and the example of Bremen", she dealt with the intersection of gender, health and migration.

From 2016 to 2020, Lisa Brünig studied for a Master's degree in Social Science Diversity Research at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. She completed a semester abroad at the University of Vienna with a focus on gender studies, sociology and political science. In her Master's thesis, she dealt with the topic of abortion and the amendment of §219a StGB from a power-critical perspective.

Lisa is a PhD student at the Diversity Research Institute at the University of Göttingen. In her ongoing doctoral project, she takes an intersectional perspective on the political struggle around the right to and access to abortion in Germany.

Research Interests

• Feminist and intersectional perspectives in medical and bioethics
• Gender and Diversity research
• Questions of legal and political regulation of bodies, sexuality and health
• Qualitative methods
• Discourse analysis
   

Academic career 

• October 2024 – October 2025:
  Research associate and Lecturer at the Institute for Diversity Research at the University of Göttingen
• November 2020 – July 2025:
  Coordinator of the Competence Center for Gender Sensitive Medicine at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at Hannover Medical School 
• February 2023 – October 2023:
  Research associate at the Institute for Diversity Research at the University of Göttingen
• April 2022 – October 2022:
  Lecturer at the Institute for Diversity Research at the University of Göttingen
• January 2018 - March 2019:
  Student assistant at the Institute for Diversity Research at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen for Dr. Astrid Biele Mefebue and Prof. Dr. Andrea D. Bührmann
• July 2018 - October 2018:
  Collaboration in the event team of the 10th European Feminist Research Conference, September 12-15, 2018 in Göttingen
• October 2017 - January 2018:
  Semester abroad in the Master's degree in Sociology at the University of Vienna with a focus on gender studies and political science
• October 2016 - November 2020:
  Study of the MA Social Science Diversity Research at the Georg-August-University Göttingen (degree: Master of Arts)
• October 2012 - August 2015:
  Bachelor's degree in Public Administration with a focus on European Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the University of Twente Enschede (Degree: Double Degree Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science)
  Tutor for lectures in statistics and methods at the WWU Münster

Publications

• Brünig/Kolandt (2025): Schwangerschaftsabbrüche als Thema reproduktiver Gerechtigkeit – Versorgungsbarrieren im Spiegel gesellschaftspolitischer Zusammenhänge. Gynäkologische Endokrinologie, 23(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10304-025-00650-0 
• Brünig/Stüwe/Weise (2024): Policy Paper. Schwangerschaftsabbrüche neu denken. Eine historische Chance für Reproduktive Gerechtigkeit. In: Körper, Kinder, Kassensturz, Schriftenreihe des Gunda-Werner-Instituts der Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
• Brünig/Kahrass/Salloch (2024): The concept of intersectionality in bioethics: a systematic review. In: BMC Medical Ethics. Doi: 10.1186/s12910-024-01057-5.
• Faissner/Brünig/Gaillard/Jieman/Gather/Hempeler (2024): Intersectionality as a tool for clinical ethics consultation in mental healthcare. In: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine. Doi: 10.1186/s13010-024-00156-w.
• (2024): Conference "Women's Bodies, Women's Rights. Health Feminism, Reproductive Knowledge and Women's Activism Across Europe in the long 20th Century". In: H/SOZ/KULT.
• Brünig/Faissner/Marcinksi-Michel/Müller/Weigold (2024): A feminist bioethics conference in Qatar? Critical viewpoints and an impulse for further discussion. In: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.
• Brünig/Salloch (2022): Making Structural Discrimination Visible. A Call for Intersectional Bioethics. In: The American Journal of Bioethics, 22 (3), 42-44. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2022.2027557.
• (2020): Abortion between biopolitics and self-determination - A feminist-discourse-analytical perspective on the parliamentary debates on the amendment of §219a of the Criminal Code, In: femina politica e.V. (ed.): Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 2/2020, Verlag Barbara Budrich
• (2019): Forum VI: The relationship between diversity and equality - "We are currently taking part in a historical discussion". A report on the symposium on 20.09.2019 of the project "Diversity, participation and cohesion in the community". Available at: http://vielfalt-kommunal.uni-goettingen.de/index.php/2019/12/20/forum-vi-das-verhaeltnis-von-diversitaet-und-gleichstellung-wir-nehmen-gerade-an-einer-historischen-diskussion-teil/.
• (2015): Immigrant health in Germany: An intersectional perspective on migration policies and the example of Bremen. Available at: https://essay.utwente.nl/67985/.

Memberships

• DFG Netzwerk “Bioethik und strukturelle Ungerechtigkeit” (bioethics and structural inequality)
• Working Group on Feminist Perspectives in Bioethics at the Academy for Ethics in Medicine e.V. (AEM)
• Prina Research Network (Policies of Reproduction)
• Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien e.V. (Professional Association for Gender Studies), ATGENDER