Health care research

Prof. Karin Wolf-Ostermann (IPP) has been shortlisted for the Falling Walls Foundation’s “Science Breakthroughs of the Year” award for her research on AI in nursing.

Researchers from the IPP organised a symposium at the 23rd IAGG in Amsterdam and presented papers and a poster on care settings for people with dementia and on the role of hearing-assistance technologies in the social well-being of people requiring care and support.

Prof. Karin Wolf-Ostermann gave a keynote speech on the oppor-tunities, challenges and future directions of AI in nursing, whilst Dr Mena presented the latest findings from the SAVE & SAFE rese-arch project on AI-supported fall prevention at the accompanying symposium.

The Department Healthcare Research, headed by Prof. Ka-rin Wolf-Ostermann, hosted visiting researcher Sena Okten from Doğuş and Marmara University in Istanbul as part of the Erasmus Staff Mobility Programme.

At the 5th German-Chinese Symposium on Elderly Care, interna-tional experts discussed innovative approaches, digital transformation, and the use of artificial intelligence in caregiving.

Sudeepa Khanal Bhattarai, PhD candidate at the Department of Global Health of the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research of the University of Bremen, successfully defended her dissertation at the University of Bielefeld in April.

The Northwest Alliance is supported by staff and students from the universities of Bremen and Oldenburg. The ‘We Are Connected’ series showcases individuals from the fields of research, teaching, knowledge transfer and administration who collaborate across campuses.

Researchers from the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) and the SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy of the University of Bremen presented current research on the digital transformation of nursing at the 8th conference “Future of Nursing” in Nuremberg.

The ProKIP project has received the Robert Bosch Foundation's special ‘Ideas for Impact’ award for 2026. On Thursday, 26 Feb-ruary 2026, the researchers in Professor Karin Wolf-Ostermann's team from Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research were honoured.

On 3 February 2026, the graduation ceremony for nursing science graduates took place in Lecture Hall GW 1 at the University of Bremen.

Panel discussion with Prof. Karin Wolf-Ostermann from the IPP on the topic of “Biosignals meet health & care”

In their contributions, health scientists at the IPP investigate the role of AI in the areas of health promotion, prevention and care.

Buğse Yüceer, research assistant at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) successfully defended her dissertation entitled ‘Evaluation of the effectiveness of a mobile application developed for informal carers of people with dementia’.

What time savings and what qualitative improvements does language software bring to care for the elderly? This is being researched and analysed for the first time by the University of Bremen and Bremen University of Applied Sciences in the TCALL project.

During her research stay in Canada, Janissa Altona from IPP of University of Bremen is working on dementia-friendly neighborhoods as part of the DemSCAPE project.

The Erasmus cooperation between the IPP's Department of Health Care Research and Akdeniz University will be further promoted and enriched by the visit of health care researchers on July, 2nd, 2025.

Prof Dr Karin Wolf-Ostermann from IPP took part in the Capital Congress on Medicine and Health in Berlin and gave a lecture.

The Care Innovation Centre (PIZ), coordinated by OFFIS e.V., hosted the first ‘Salongespräch zur Zukunft der Pflege’ on 12 June 2025 in the Innovationsquartier Oldenburg.

The 4th International Conference of the German Society for Nursing Science (DGP) in Berlin provided an opportunity to discuss the latest research findings and innovative practical examples and to form potential collaborations.

Bremen nursing scientist appointed to important committee for nursing science research