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Janissa Altona

: Janissa Altona

Building/room:  Grazer Straße 4 (GRA4) A2020
Phone:  +49 421 218-68911

Research associate

Janissa Altona is a health scientist at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) at the University of Bremen. She is particularly involved in research into the care of people with dementia.

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Research

  • Social health of people with dementia

  • Influence of (built) environmental factors on people with dementia and cognition

  • Health services research on medical and nursing care

  • Qualitative and quantitative methods, mixed methods

     

Teaching

  • since summer semester 2022 Ethics and Healthcare Justice (M.Sc., M.Ed., M.A.)

  • since winter semester 2022/23 Health Services Research (B.A.)

     

Professional Career
Since 11/2021Research assistant in the Department of Health Care Research, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen
2020Internship at the IGES Institute Berlin, Health Policy Department
2018-2020

Student assistant at the State Association for Health and Academy for Social Medicine e.V., Lower Saxony/Bremen

2018 – 2019Tutor techniques for scientific working in the bachelor's degree programme Public Health/Health Sciences
2016Internship at the Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Health and Equality
Academic career
2018-2021

Master's programme Public Health/Health Care, Health Economics and Management at the University of Bremen, M.A.

Master's thesis topic: "Study designs of psychosocial interventions for people with dementia: a pilot study on strengths and limitations"

2017Semester abroad at Maastricht University in the Bachelor's programme Health Sciences, B.Sc.
2014-2018

Bachelor's degree programme in Public Health/Health Sciences at the University of Bremen, B.A.

Topic of the Bachelor's thesis: "Potentials and limitations of HIV prevention in Germany"