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Prof. Dr. Ansgar Gerhardus and Prof. Dr. Birte Berger-Höger from the IPP form the spokesperson team for the new doctoral program of the High Profile Area Health Sciences of University of Bremen

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.

At this year's German Care Day in Berlin, Prof. Dr. Ingrid Darmann-Finck discussed the topic of “staffing levels” on the podium of the GKV-Spitzenverband (National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds) with representatives of the GKV-Spitzenverband and the Federal Ministry of Health, amon

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

Kai Knapp, Evelyn Wiencek, and Larissa Fenker from the IPP present current (doctoral) projects

Health and nursing scientists at the University of Bremen have been conducting research and teaching in the Humanities 1 (GW1) building at the University of Bremen since October.

At the annual conference of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention, the six new joint research projects of the BMFTR funding line on intervention studies for healthy and sustainable living conditions and lifestyles were presented in three symposia and a poster exhibition.

The editors Anke Steckelberg and Birte Berger-Höger (Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research IPP) provide a well-founded insight into the research and practice of decision coaching in nursing care.

Lisa Aschenbach, Xenia Kumm and Leonie Renelt, Student assistant at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research IPP, achieved second place with their research project “Menstruation in Everyday University Life“ awarded by the Institute for Cycle Health.

New home: the IPP moves to GW1

In this podcast, Rasmus Bisanz (student), Gabi Meihswinkel (Studierwerkstatt), and Solveig Lena Hansen (Lecturer for Ethics, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research IPP) from the University of Bremen talk with the project Unconditional Teaching.

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.

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.

In her keynote, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte, head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Inequalities at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, highlights the significance of social inequalities in the context of climate change and health

Adequately capturing sex/gender diversity remains a challenge in health research. The DIVERGesTOOL toolbox aims to support researchers and is currently being disseminated through teaching, lectures, and workshops.

In the Europe-wide SHIFT2HEALTH study, the team from the IPP's Health Services Research department is investigating the health of shift workers and non-shift workers in the healthcare sector

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.

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.

This question was addressed in an interdisciplinary workshop as part of the DivO-Inform project funded by the German Cancer Aid, organised by the Department of Nursing Evaluation and Implementation Research at the IPP of the University of Bremen, among others.

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 transfer project InnovationsCommunity Urban Health has launched its first Call for Ideas on the topic of heat-adapted urban development. The initiative is seeking creative and practicable project ideas.

Ensuring the quality of doctorates, providing doctoral candidates with targeted support, offering them a good framework for their doctorate: these are some of the goals that the structured doctoral programme in Health Sciences will be pursuing from 1 October 2025.

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.

Prof. Dr. Karin Wolf-Ostermann (IPP/University of Bremen) organised a symposium on Academic-Practice Partnerships in Long-Term Care at GSA 2024 and presented TCALL.

IPP scientists present their research findings on the importance of social participation for people with dementia at an international annual conference and symposium in Seattle

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.

New heat health action guidance being developed by WHO

Christopher Jones receives an early career research award from the Division of Health Psychology in the German Psychological Society

People with a migration history often face barrieres when they when seeking trustworthy information about their cancer treatment. To develop improved health information resources for this population, the IPP and the University Medical Centre Halle are working together on the 'DivO-Inform' project.

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

The Department is growing!

Prof. Dr. Karin Wolf-Ostermann and Janissa Altona from IPP at the University of Bremen presented findings from their research projects on dementia-friendly neighbourhoods at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Association of America.

In focus: Gender and intersectionality in health science research

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Darmann-Finck from the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research at the University of Bremen was Deputy Chairwoman for five years

Workshop "Global Health - The Importance of Health Worldwide" for Bremen School Students