“The right decision aids should present the advantages and disadvantages in a manner suited to the target group”, says Professor Birte Berger-Höger from the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) at the University of Bremen. Together with Professor Anke Steckelberg from the Institute of Health and Care Sciences of the medical faculty of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, she is working on the new “GenDivInfo” project.

This project is developing a concept for the creation of medical guidelines and evidence-based decision aids for laypersons that will consider various aspects of gender and diversity. This includes questions of whether medical treatments work differently for people of different genders or if they have different information needs, for example. The concept is being developed and tested using the example of non-hormonal contraception methods, including condoms or also natural contraceptive methods.

A further cooperation partner from the University of Bremen is Dr. Margrit E. Kaufmann, who works on diversity and intersectionality research within the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research.
The Federal Ministry for Health (BMG) is funding the project from April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2025.

Prof. Dr. Birte Berger-Höger is head of the Department Evaluation and Implementation Research in Nursing Science at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research IPP at the University of Bremen since 2020.

Read the full press release of the University of Bremen by Christina Selzer here:

https://www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet/hochschulkommunikation-und-marketing/aktuelle-meldungen/detailansicht/informiert-verhueten-projekt-optimiert-medizinische-leitlinien

Contact:

Prof. Dr. phil. Birte Berger-Höger

University of Bremen

Faculty 11 Human and Health Sciences

Institute of Public Health und Nursing Research

Department of Evaluation and Implementation Research in Nursing Science
birte.berger-hoeger@uni-bremen.de

www.ipp.uni-bremen.de

(Christina Selzer, press release from the University of Bremen from March 10, 2024)

Additional Information:
www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fuer-public-health-und-pflegeforschung

Contact:
Prof. Dr. phil. Birte Berger-Höger
Head of Department Evaluation and Implementation Research in Nursing Sciences
Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research IPP Faculty 11 Human and Health Sciences University of Bremen
Telephone: +49 421 218-68900
Email: birte.berger-hoeger@uni-bremen.de

Since 2013, Gabriele Bolte has held the position of Professor in Social Epidemiology at Faculty 11 Human and Health Sciences. As a human biologist and epidemiologist, she heads the Department of Social Epidemiology at IPP, which since 2019 has also served as the WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Inequalities. The department's primary research focuses on environmental justice, health-promoting urban development, equity impact of public health interventions, and gender-transformative health research. Among other roles, Gabriele Bolte serves as an Appointed Member of the "Environmental Public Health" Commission of the Federal Ministry of Health at the Robert Koch Institute, in collaboration with the Federal Environment Agency and the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association. She has been a member of the IPP Board of Directors since 2013, serving as Managing Director since 2014.

Following her studies in Theoretical Medicine/Human Biology, Gabriele Bolte earned her doctorate in Human Biology from the University of Marburg in 1996. In 1999, she obtained her Master of Public Health following postgraduate studies in "Public Health and Epidemiology" at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. She completed her habilitation and received her teaching qualification (venia legendi) in Epidemiology from the University of Ulm in 2006, and from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in 2008. After various positions as a research associate, Gabriele Bolte served as Environmental Epidemiologist at the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority from 2004 to 2011, and as Head of the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Unit from 2011 to 2013.

Since 2020, Birte Berger-Höger has led the Department of "Nursing Science Evaluation and Implementation Research" at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) and holds the position of Junior Professor of Nursing Science, specializing in Evaluation and Implementation, at Faculty 11 of the University of Bremen. The department focuses on promoting evidence-based nursing practice to prevent over-, under-, or inappropriate care of nursing patients and their relatives. Since 2020, she has served as spokesperson in the Education and Training Division of the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine, and since 2024 as Co-spokesperson of the Special Interest Group "Decision Coaching" of the International Shared Decision Making Society. Since 2022, Birte Berger-Höger has been a member of the IPP Board of Directors.

Following her training as a healthcare and nursing professional, Birte Berger-Höger studied Vocational Education at the University of Hamburg, specializing in Health Sciences and Social Sciences, and completed her doctorate there on the topic of Decision Coaching by specialized nursing professionals in oncology. Subsequently, she worked as a research associate at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, where she participated in several research projects.

Benjamin Schüz has led the "Health Promotion and Prevention" group at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) since 2017. The department focuses on applied research to improve health promotion and health-relevant behavioral patterns across the lifespan. He also serves as Co-Speaker of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen, a major interdisciplinary research consortium funded by the Leibniz Association and the State of Bremen, dedicated to investigating the potential of digital applications in public health. In 2022, Benjamin Schüz was appointed to the IPP Board of Directors.

Following his degree (Dipl.-Psych.) in Psychology from Freie Universität Berlin, Benjamin Schüz completed his doctorate in Health Psychology at the same institution in 2007. Subsequently, he worked as a research associate at the German Centre of Gerontology in Berlin, followed by a position as Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia, from 2011 to 2017. His research focuses on examining and modifying socio-structural disparities in health-relevant behaviors.

https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/institute-of-public-health-and-nursing-research/the-ipp/board-of-directors

Contact:
Prof Dr Gabriele Bolte, MPH

Managing Director

Head of the Department of Social Epidemiology

Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research

Department 11 Human and Health Sciences

University of Bremen

Grazer Street 4

28359 Bremen

Phone: 0421/218-68820 (secretary's office -68821)

E-mail: gabriele.bolte@uni-bremen.de

https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/institute-of-public-health-and-nursing-research

Dr. Kathrin Seibert opened the symposium “Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Care – Perspectives on Repositories and AI Systems” with a keynote on the use of AI in nursing care and moderated subsequent contributions from research projects within the BMBF funding program Making Repositories and AI Systems Usable in Everyday Nursing Practice. She also presented a tool for assessing AI readiness in nursing-related research and development projects. The AI Nursing Care Readiness Assessment (AINCRA) was developed under the leadership of the University of Bremen in collaboration with the Institute of Computer Science (IMI) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, the Association for Digitalization in Social Services (vediso e.V.), and the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.

Dominik Domhoff shared experiences and recommendations for successful collaboration between scientific accompanying research and AI nursing care projects. These insights are based on several years of accompanying research on AI nursing care projects and offer valuable input for future research in funding programs related to the use of AI in nursing.

The workshop “Barcamp AI in Nursing Care in Action: A Workshop for Open-Minded Collaboration” was jointly conducted by Dr. Kathrin Seibert, Dominik Domhoff, Alessia Nowak (IMI), and Janissa Altona. Participants engaged in hands-on use of the Barcamp method and discussed the integration of AI into nursing care in four parallel sessions.

Jana Kaden presented a poster titled “Theories, models and frameworks of school nursing – results of a scoping review.” The work explored the extent to which school nursing approaches in Germany align with existing theoretical concepts. The findings highlight the potential benefits of using internationally established models and frameworks to guide the daily practice of school nurses and to support the further development and implementation of school nursing in Germany.

Ellen Dunker presented the results of her research on preventive home visits in a talk titled “For whom, why and under which conditions do preventive home visits for the older population work? A realist review.” She used the realist review method to develop an initial program theory (iPT) for preventive home visits based on existing literature. The findings demonstrate that various factors can enhance the success of such visits. Considering these factors in the design and implementation of future preventive home visit interventions could improve their effectiveness. The work is part of a dissertation in the Research Cluster ‘Healthy City of Bremen’ and is being supervised by Prof. Dr. Birte Berger-Höger (University of Bremen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Stolle-Wahl (City University of Applied Sciences, Bremen) and Prof. Dr. Michael Rosentreter (Cooperative University of Applied Sciences Hamburg (BHH), Hamburg) as part of a cross-university collaboration.

Overall, the programme is characterised by a high degree of flexibility in order to take into account the individual needs of the doctoral candidates, to provide them with the best possible support in their doctoral project and to prepare them for their future career - regardless of whether this is within or outside academia. "We have designed the programme in such a way that it offers significant added value for both the doctoral candidates and their supervisors. It not only helps to improve the qualifications of doctoral students, but can also eases the workload supervisors through joint supervision and the courses on offer," explains spokesperson Prof. Dr. Ansgar Gerhardus. "We look forward to welcoming doctoral students from various disciplines to our programme starting in October and to working with them and the participating colleagues to create this new and important offer in the health sciences," says deputy spokesperson Prof Dr Birte Berger-Höger.

In the coming weeks, coordinator Fabienne Schnepf will publish further information on the WSP website. Interested doctoral students from the health sciences who are at the beginning of their doctorate or would like to start a doctorate in the near future can contact Fabienne Schnepf for further information in consultation with their supervisors.

Further information:

Fabienne Schnepf, Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Health Sciences

fschnepf@uni-bremen.de

www.healthsciences.uni-bremen.de/promotion.html

Together, they discussed existing information needs, barriers within the healthcare system and possible strategies to improve care for people with a migrant background and cancer.

Two keynote presentations by the project team provided insight into current research findings and practical challenges. The first presentation addressed the results of an interview study on the information needs of people with a migrant background and cancer, as well as structural barriers within the German healthcare system. The second presentation focused on the role of language mediation as a key element for successful communication between patients and healthcare professionals.

Following the presentations, participants engaged in moderated small group discussions on key topics such as language, communication, access to information and the cultural specificity of health information. It became clear that the linguistic and content-related complexity of medical treatments often complicates communication. Due to time constraints, there is often too little opportunity to ensure that patients fully understand the information provided. Raising awareness among healthcare professionals about assessing and promoting health literacy was identified as an important step. At the same time, participants expressed the wish for more transparent and comprehensible decision-making processes during the course of treatment.

Initial solution ideas were also discussed during the event. The results will feed into the development of a guideline for creators of health information and an implementation concept for providing health information for people with a migrant background and cancer.

The event clearly demonstrated how valuable direct exchange between affected individuals and interest holders is in fostering mutual understanding and better addressing the needs of the target group.

The newly published book Decision Coaching – Supporting Informed Decisions by Nursing Professionals (eds. Anke Steckelberg, Birte Berger-Höger) introduces the concept, presents current scientific evidence, and offers practical insights into implementation.

“Decision coaching helps to reduce decisional conflicts and empowers patients to make informed choices. Nursing professionals play a key role in strengthening health literacy and promoting patient-centered care,” says editor Birte Berger-Höger, Assistant Professor at the University of Bremen, Department of Nursing Evaluation and Implementation Research.

The book addresses nursing professionals, other health care providers, researchers, and educators with an interest in shared decision-making and patient-centered care.

More information is available from the publisher: https://shop.kohlhammer.de/catalogsearch/result/?q=978-3-17-043669-5

The introductory course is designed not only to help doctoral students start their doctoral studies in a conscious and well-prepared manner, but also to network them across disciplines for their joint journey. The spokesperson team for the doctoral program, consisting of Prof. Dr. Birte Berger-Höger and Prof. Dr. Ansgar Gerhardus (both IPP), is responsible for the program together with coordinator Fabienne Schnepf. If you have any questions about the program or participation, please feel free to contact Fabienne Schnepf at any time. All doctoral students whose supervisors are members of the doctoral program are eligible to participate. Admission is possible on an ongoing basis and is granted by the spokesperson team upon application and consultation with the supervisors.

More information about the doctoral program and admission can be found at  www. healthsciences.uni-bremen.de/promotion.html.

Subsequently, the program speakers Prof. Dr. Ansgar Gerhardus and Prof. Dr. Birte Berger-Höger, together with coordinator Fabienne Schnepf - all from the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research IPP -  introduced the new doctoral program and provided an overview of its objectives and structure. A particular highlight of the event was the presentation by the doctoral researchers, who offered insights into the diversity of their group, disciplines, and research projects.

Following the official program, participants had the opportunity for personal exchange during a reception with drinks and finger food.

The event marked an important milestone for the program as well as for the University of Bremen's research focus area in Health Sciences, and provided the doctoral researchers from the disciplines of Public Health, Nursing Care, Sports Science, and Psychology with a celebratory framework for starting their academic careers in the structured doctoral program.

Information:

www.healthsciences.uni-bremen.de/promotion.html

After the guests arrived, Prof. Dr. Ingrid Darmann-Finck, Dean of Faculty 11 and Head of the Qualification and Curriculum Research Department at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP), opened the official part of the evening with a welcome speech. This was followed by welcoming remarks from Jens Oestreich, advisor to the Senator for Health, Women and Consumer Protection, from Jannis Hübner on behalf of the student council (StugA), and from Renate Heitmann on behalf of the University of Bremen Alumni Association. The welcoming remarks highlighted the diverse career prospects of the graduates and the social relevance of their extensive expertise.

Another highlight of the evening was the award ceremony for outstanding theses. The awards went to Jan Donix (Teaching at Vocational Schools – Nursing, M.Ed.), Julia Konrad (Teaching at Vocational Schools – Nursing, M.Ed.) and Julia Misonow (Community Health Care and Nursing, M.Sc.). Their theses are exemplary of the academic quality and thematic diversity of the nursing science programmes. Afterwards, all graduates were given a ceremonial send-off. Pianist Kristina Legostaeva provided the musical accompaniment for the evening, underscoring the festive atmosphere of the event with her piano playing. Following the official part of the evening, guests enjoyed a champagne reception and personal conversations, providing an opportunity for exchange, reunion and networking. We congratulate all graduates on their successful completion of their studies and wish them all the best for their future professional and personal careers.

“The right decision aids should present the advantages and disadvantages in a manner suited to the target group”, says Professor Birte Berger-Höger from the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) at the University of Bremen. Together with Professor Anke Steckelberg from the Institute of Health and Care Sciences of the medical faculty of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, she is working on the new “GenDivInfo” project.

This project is developing a concept for the creation of medical guidelines and evidence-based decision aids for laypersons that will consider various aspects of gender and diversity. This includes questions of whether medical treatments work differently for people of different genders or if they have different information needs, for example. The concept is being developed and tested using the example of non-hormonal contraception methods, including condoms or also natural contraceptive methods.

A further cooperation partner from the University of Bremen is Dr. Margrit E. Kaufmann, who works on diversity and intersectionality research within the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research.
The Federal Ministry for Health (BMG) is funding the project from April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2025.

Prof. Dr. Birte Berger-Höger is head of the Department Evaluation and Implementation Research in Nursing Science at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research IPP at the University of Bremen since 2020.

Read the full press release of the University of Bremen by Christina Selzer here:

https://www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet/hochschulkommunikation-und-marketing/aktuelle-meldungen/detailansicht/informiert-verhueten-projekt-optimiert-medizinische-leitlinien

Contact:

Prof. Dr. phil. Birte Berger-Höger

University of Bremen

Faculty 11 Human and Health Sciences

Institute of Public Health und Nursing Research

Department of Evaluation and Implementation Research in Nursing Science
birte.berger-hoeger@uni-bremen.de

www.ipp.uni-bremen.de

(Christina Selzer, press release from the University of Bremen from March 10, 2024)

Additional Information:
www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fuer-public-health-und-pflegeforschung

Contact:
Prof. Dr. phil. Birte Berger-Höger
Head of Department Evaluation and Implementation Research in Nursing Sciences
Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research IPP Faculty 11 Human and Health Sciences University of Bremen
Telephone: +49 421 218-68900
Email: birte.berger-hoeger@uni-bremen.de

Since 2013, Gabriele Bolte has held the position of Professor in Social Epidemiology at Faculty 11 Human and Health Sciences. As a human biologist and epidemiologist, she heads the Department of Social Epidemiology at IPP, which since 2019 has also served as the WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Inequalities. The department's primary research focuses on environmental justice, health-promoting urban development, equity impact of public health interventions, and gender-transformative health research. Among other roles, Gabriele Bolte serves as an Appointed Member of the "Environmental Public Health" Commission of the Federal Ministry of Health at the Robert Koch Institute, in collaboration with the Federal Environment Agency and the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association. She has been a member of the IPP Board of Directors since 2013, serving as Managing Director since 2014.

Following her studies in Theoretical Medicine/Human Biology, Gabriele Bolte earned her doctorate in Human Biology from the University of Marburg in 1996. In 1999, she obtained her Master of Public Health following postgraduate studies in "Public Health and Epidemiology" at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. She completed her habilitation and received her teaching qualification (venia legendi) in Epidemiology from the University of Ulm in 2006, and from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in 2008. After various positions as a research associate, Gabriele Bolte served as Environmental Epidemiologist at the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority from 2004 to 2011, and as Head of the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Unit from 2011 to 2013.

Since 2020, Birte Berger-Höger has led the Department of "Nursing Science Evaluation and Implementation Research" at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) and holds the position of Junior Professor of Nursing Science, specializing in Evaluation and Implementation, at Faculty 11 of the University of Bremen. The department focuses on promoting evidence-based nursing practice to prevent over-, under-, or inappropriate care of nursing patients and their relatives. Since 2020, she has served as spokesperson in the Education and Training Division of the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine, and since 2024 as Co-spokesperson of the Special Interest Group "Decision Coaching" of the International Shared Decision Making Society. Since 2022, Birte Berger-Höger has been a member of the IPP Board of Directors.

Following her training as a healthcare and nursing professional, Birte Berger-Höger studied Vocational Education at the University of Hamburg, specializing in Health Sciences and Social Sciences, and completed her doctorate there on the topic of Decision Coaching by specialized nursing professionals in oncology. Subsequently, she worked as a research associate at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, where she participated in several research projects.

Benjamin Schüz has led the "Health Promotion and Prevention" group at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) since 2017. The department focuses on applied research to improve health promotion and health-relevant behavioral patterns across the lifespan. He also serves as Co-Speaker of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen, a major interdisciplinary research consortium funded by the Leibniz Association and the State of Bremen, dedicated to investigating the potential of digital applications in public health. In 2022, Benjamin Schüz was appointed to the IPP Board of Directors.

Following his degree (Dipl.-Psych.) in Psychology from Freie Universität Berlin, Benjamin Schüz completed his doctorate in Health Psychology at the same institution in 2007. Subsequently, he worked as a research associate at the German Centre of Gerontology in Berlin, followed by a position as Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia, from 2011 to 2017. His research focuses on examining and modifying socio-structural disparities in health-relevant behaviors.

https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/institute-of-public-health-and-nursing-research/the-ipp/board-of-directors

Contact:
Prof Dr Gabriele Bolte, MPH

Managing Director

Head of the Department of Social Epidemiology

Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research

Department 11 Human and Health Sciences

University of Bremen

Grazer Street 4

28359 Bremen

Phone: 0421/218-68820 (secretary's office -68821)

E-mail: gabriele.bolte@uni-bremen.de

https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/institute-of-public-health-and-nursing-research

Dr. Kathrin Seibert opened the symposium “Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Care – Perspectives on Repositories and AI Systems” with a keynote on the use of AI in nursing care and moderated subsequent contributions from research projects within the BMBF funding program Making Repositories and AI Systems Usable in Everyday Nursing Practice. She also presented a tool for assessing AI readiness in nursing-related research and development projects. The AI Nursing Care Readiness Assessment (AINCRA) was developed under the leadership of the University of Bremen in collaboration with the Institute of Computer Science (IMI) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, the Association for Digitalization in Social Services (vediso e.V.), and the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.

Dominik Domhoff shared experiences and recommendations for successful collaboration between scientific accompanying research and AI nursing care projects. These insights are based on several years of accompanying research on AI nursing care projects and offer valuable input for future research in funding programs related to the use of AI in nursing.

The workshop “Barcamp AI in Nursing Care in Action: A Workshop for Open-Minded Collaboration” was jointly conducted by Dr. Kathrin Seibert, Dominik Domhoff, Alessia Nowak (IMI), and Janissa Altona. Participants engaged in hands-on use of the Barcamp method and discussed the integration of AI into nursing care in four parallel sessions.

Jana Kaden presented a poster titled “Theories, models and frameworks of school nursing – results of a scoping review.” The work explored the extent to which school nursing approaches in Germany align with existing theoretical concepts. The findings highlight the potential benefits of using internationally established models and frameworks to guide the daily practice of school nurses and to support the further development and implementation of school nursing in Germany.

Ellen Dunker presented the results of her research on preventive home visits in a talk titled “For whom, why and under which conditions do preventive home visits for the older population work? A realist review.” She used the realist review method to develop an initial program theory (iPT) for preventive home visits based on existing literature. The findings demonstrate that various factors can enhance the success of such visits. Considering these factors in the design and implementation of future preventive home visit interventions could improve their effectiveness. The work is part of a dissertation in the Research Cluster ‘Healthy City of Bremen’ and is being supervised by Prof. Dr. Birte Berger-Höger (University of Bremen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Stolle-Wahl (City University of Applied Sciences, Bremen) and Prof. Dr. Michael Rosentreter (Cooperative University of Applied Sciences Hamburg (BHH), Hamburg) as part of a cross-university collaboration.

Overall, the programme is characterised by a high degree of flexibility in order to take into account the individual needs of the doctoral candidates, to provide them with the best possible support in their doctoral project and to prepare them for their future career - regardless of whether this is within or outside academia. "We have designed the programme in such a way that it offers significant added value for both the doctoral candidates and their supervisors. It not only helps to improve the qualifications of doctoral students, but can also eases the workload supervisors through joint supervision and the courses on offer," explains spokesperson Prof. Dr. Ansgar Gerhardus. "We look forward to welcoming doctoral students from various disciplines to our programme starting in October and to working with them and the participating colleagues to create this new and important offer in the health sciences," says deputy spokesperson Prof Dr Birte Berger-Höger.

In the coming weeks, coordinator Fabienne Schnepf will publish further information on the WSP website. Interested doctoral students from the health sciences who are at the beginning of their doctorate or would like to start a doctorate in the near future can contact Fabienne Schnepf for further information in consultation with their supervisors.

Further information:

Fabienne Schnepf, Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Health Sciences

fschnepf@uni-bremen.de

www.healthsciences.uni-bremen.de/promotion.html

Together, they discussed existing information needs, barriers within the healthcare system and possible strategies to improve care for people with a migrant background and cancer.

Two keynote presentations by the project team provided insight into current research findings and practical challenges. The first presentation addressed the results of an interview study on the information needs of people with a migrant background and cancer, as well as structural barriers within the German healthcare system. The second presentation focused on the role of language mediation as a key element for successful communication between patients and healthcare professionals.

Following the presentations, participants engaged in moderated small group discussions on key topics such as language, communication, access to information and the cultural specificity of health information. It became clear that the linguistic and content-related complexity of medical treatments often complicates communication. Due to time constraints, there is often too little opportunity to ensure that patients fully understand the information provided. Raising awareness among healthcare professionals about assessing and promoting health literacy was identified as an important step. At the same time, participants expressed the wish for more transparent and comprehensible decision-making processes during the course of treatment.

Initial solution ideas were also discussed during the event. The results will feed into the development of a guideline for creators of health information and an implementation concept for providing health information for people with a migrant background and cancer.

The event clearly demonstrated how valuable direct exchange between affected individuals and interest holders is in fostering mutual understanding and better addressing the needs of the target group.

The newly published book Decision Coaching – Supporting Informed Decisions by Nursing Professionals (eds. Anke Steckelberg, Birte Berger-Höger) introduces the concept, presents current scientific evidence, and offers practical insights into implementation.

“Decision coaching helps to reduce decisional conflicts and empowers patients to make informed choices. Nursing professionals play a key role in strengthening health literacy and promoting patient-centered care,” says editor Birte Berger-Höger, Assistant Professor at the University of Bremen, Department of Nursing Evaluation and Implementation Research.

The book addresses nursing professionals, other health care providers, researchers, and educators with an interest in shared decision-making and patient-centered care.

More information is available from the publisher: https://shop.kohlhammer.de/catalogsearch/result/?q=978-3-17-043669-5

The introductory course is designed not only to help doctoral students start their doctoral studies in a conscious and well-prepared manner, but also to network them across disciplines for their joint journey. The spokesperson team for the doctoral program, consisting of Prof. Dr. Birte Berger-Höger and Prof. Dr. Ansgar Gerhardus (both IPP), is responsible for the program together with coordinator Fabienne Schnepf. If you have any questions about the program or participation, please feel free to contact Fabienne Schnepf at any time. All doctoral students whose supervisors are members of the doctoral program are eligible to participate. Admission is possible on an ongoing basis and is granted by the spokesperson team upon application and consultation with the supervisors.

More information about the doctoral program and admission can be found at  www. healthsciences.uni-bremen.de/promotion.html.

Subsequently, the program speakers Prof. Dr. Ansgar Gerhardus and Prof. Dr. Birte Berger-Höger, together with coordinator Fabienne Schnepf - all from the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research IPP -  introduced the new doctoral program and provided an overview of its objectives and structure. A particular highlight of the event was the presentation by the doctoral researchers, who offered insights into the diversity of their group, disciplines, and research projects.

Following the official program, participants had the opportunity for personal exchange during a reception with drinks and finger food.

The event marked an important milestone for the program as well as for the University of Bremen's research focus area in Health Sciences, and provided the doctoral researchers from the disciplines of Public Health, Nursing Care, Sports Science, and Psychology with a celebratory framework for starting their academic careers in the structured doctoral program.

Information:

www.healthsciences.uni-bremen.de/promotion.html

After the guests arrived, Prof. Dr. Ingrid Darmann-Finck, Dean of Faculty 11 and Head of the Qualification and Curriculum Research Department at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP), opened the official part of the evening with a welcome speech. This was followed by welcoming remarks from Jens Oestreich, advisor to the Senator for Health, Women and Consumer Protection, from Jannis Hübner on behalf of the student council (StugA), and from Renate Heitmann on behalf of the University of Bremen Alumni Association. The welcoming remarks highlighted the diverse career prospects of the graduates and the social relevance of their extensive expertise.

Another highlight of the evening was the award ceremony for outstanding theses. The awards went to Jan Donix (Teaching at Vocational Schools – Nursing, M.Ed.), Julia Konrad (Teaching at Vocational Schools – Nursing, M.Ed.) and Julia Misonow (Community Health Care and Nursing, M.Sc.). Their theses are exemplary of the academic quality and thematic diversity of the nursing science programmes. Afterwards, all graduates were given a ceremonial send-off. Pianist Kristina Legostaeva provided the musical accompaniment for the evening, underscoring the festive atmosphere of the event with her piano playing. Following the official part of the evening, guests enjoyed a champagne reception and personal conversations, providing an opportunity for exchange, reunion and networking. We congratulate all graduates on their successful completion of their studies and wish them all the best for their future professional and personal careers.