Social Epidemiology

Ausschnitt der 17 Ziele für die nachhaltige Entwicklung, politische Zielsetzungen der Vereinten Nationen

Contact

Head of Department:
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte
Phone +49 421 218-68820

Assistance:
Christina Müller
Phone +49 421 218-68821

Grazer Street 4
28359 Bremen

Welcome to the website of the Department of Social Epidemiology at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research.

Establishing Health Equity in All Policies is the mission of our research. As an interdisciplinary team, we combine social and environmental epidemiological concepts and methods from a public health perspective in our research.

 

 

Research Focuses

  • Urban Health
  • Environmental Justice—Equal opportunities in the context of environmental health
  • Sex/Gender-Sensitive Public Health Research and Epidemiology
  • Equity impact of public health interventions

For more information about our research focuses click here.

WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Inequalities

The Department of Social Epidemiology of the IPP has been designated as the WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Inequalities in May 2019. As WHO Collaborating Centre we assist WHO with our expertise in the research field of social inequalities in environment and health.

Further information on the activities of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Inequalities can be found here.

Teaching

We offer several seminars, courses and lectures within the degree programs Public Health/Health Sciences (BA and MA) and Epidemiology (MSc) as well as in the area of comprehensive courses (General Studies) at the Faculty Human and Health Sciences.

We supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s theses as well as dissertations primarily in the fields of our research focuses.

It is possible to carry out the period of practical training in Public Health (BA) with a focus on epidemiology at our institute.

News

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Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung| Sozialepidemiologie| Pflegewissenschaftliche Versorgungsforschung|

Digital population-based health in Germany: An edition of the Bundesgesundheitsblatt highlights future potential

The latest issue of the Bundesgesundheitsblatt "Digital population-based health in Germany - examples from research at the Leibniz Science Campus Digital Public Health" focuses on the digital transformation in healthcare and combines exemplary papers on the potential of digital technologies.


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Report on climate justice in Germany published for the first time

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte investigates health equity in climate change impacts


Portrait Gabriele Bolte
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Urban Epidemiology as an integrative approach for sustainable, health-promoting urban development

Prof. Gabriele Bolte presents strategies from the recently published paper at the ninth conference City of the future - healthy, sustainable metropolitan areas


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20th issue of IPP-Info newly published - Launch of our new online reader survey

In focus: Gender and intersectionality in health science research


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Co-designing Public Space: In Policy and Practice

Team from IPP's Social Epidemiology Department tests new design approaches in international project


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New research network "SalusTransform" on health-promoting urban development started

Concept development phase for the evaluation of urban development measures in Bremen, Bochum and Wuppertal


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New interdisciplinary research project to develop an urban health monitoring system

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte and Dr. Jacqueline Hamilton successful in receiving funding in the funding line „Planetary Health“ of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt)


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WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Inequalities

Fahrradfahrer:innen - Demonstration für das richtige Abstandhalten im Straßenverkehr, Ritterhude

Transfer

IPP-Writings and Working Tools of the Department of Social Epidemiology

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Team

Overview of the Member of the Department of Social Epidemiology

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Projects

Projects of the Department of Social Epidemiology

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Working Group on Intersectional Gender Perspectives

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Courses/Theses

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Publications

Publications of the Department of Social Epidemiology

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Events

Events of the Department of Social Epidemiology

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Presentations/Poster

Presentations and Poster of the Department of Social Epidemiology