Global Health

Scientists from the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research IPP are founding a new PHD network for public health ethics. The initiative receives funding from BYRD.

Prof. Melanie Böckmann from the IPP contributed to the chapters of the second edition of the guidelines, which were coordinated by the WHO European Centre for Environment, Climate Change and Health in Bonn, Germany.

Anil Fastenau, an associate member of the Global Health Department at the IPP, explains how research projects can secure additional funding for NTD programmes.

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.

Researchers from UK are exchanging ideas with Melanie Böckmann and her team.

Melanie Böckmann from the IPP is discussing public health research and teaching with Dutch colleagues at Maastricht University.

International award for head of the Global Health Department at the IPP

Dr. H. Herwansyah from Universitas Jambi in Indonesia is spending five weeks as a visiting scholar in the Department of Global Health at the IPP.

A two-day training workshop titled “Story Matters”, organized by the German Global Health Research Alliance (GLOHRA) Academy and supported by the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), took place on 27–28 October 2025 at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen.

Three Department of Global Health members, Sophie Unterkircher, Anil Fastenau, and Matthew Willis, collaborated on a new Lancet Global Health study analyzing over 40 years of leprosy routine data in Pakistan.

At the EDCTP Forum, Anil Fastenau presented the session "Stopping Leprosy Transmission", highlighting how integrating leprosy interventions into broader skin NTD strategies can improve early detection and support long-term disease management.

On June 6th 2025, members of GLOHRA discussed how scientific findings could be conveyed to policymakers and the public at the 'Storytelling in Science-Policy Transfer' community roundtable event in Berlin.

The WHO concluded its second global meeting on skin-related neglected tropical diseases (skin NTDs) last week with an urgent call for more integrated approaches and intensified partnerships to achieve the goals of the NTD Roadmap 2030.

The report “10 New Insights in Climate Science” shows the threatening consequences of climate change: rising temperatures are endangering oceans, the Amazon rainforest and maternal health worldwide. Researchers call for decisive action.

Last week our two PhD scholars Sudeepa Khanal and Sophie Stützle represented our department at the German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA) academy field trip to Geneva

PhD student awarded prestigious tobacco control award

Public Health research student from Kazakhstan visited the University in May 2024

New heat health action guidance being developed by WHO

At the meeting between the delegation from Datong University of Bremen and members of the IPP, the participants exchanged views on health and nursing study programs in Datong and Bremen.

Melanie Böckmann appointed to the Editorial board of the journal Global and Public Health