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Around 50 guests celebrated the launch of the new Structured Doctoral Program in Health Sciences at the University of Bremen on January 14, 2026.

Jana Purnhagen and Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte of the Department of Social Epidemiology conduct participatory transdisciplinary research on overcoming implementation gaps in the context of environmental justice

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Bremen nursing scientist appointed to important committee for nursing science research

Prof Dr Ansgar Gerhardus from IPP explains the framework developed by his team for testing digital health applications in the podcast by Health Sciences Bremen

The event bridged the gap between the latest technological developments and their practical applications with the aim of optimising care.

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.

In her contributions, the Bremen health scientist spoke on the topics of environmental justice and climate adaptation strategies, in particular heat action plans, and their significance for the living conditions of people affected by poverty

Benjamin Schüz shows how relevant prevention and health promotion are in view of the current challenges in the healthcare system. A contribution to the Health Briefing series, a joint production of the Health Sciences Research Centre and BIPS

The platform is a network of experts in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The almost 200 members from science, business and society work in working groups to develop positions on the opportunities and challenges of AI and identify options for action

Bremen health scientists publish health policy article in the Lancet

Conference of the "Future of Care" cluster - experts and representatives of the professional world meet to exchange ideas on the latest developments and the status of digitalization/technological advances in the care and healthcare sector

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte, Dr. Stefanie Dreger and Ellen Senck conduct transdisciplinary research on implementation gaps in the context of environmental justice

Prof. Dr Karin Wolf-Ostermann from IPP at the University of Bremen and the ProKIP team organised the final meeting of the BMBF funding measure ‘Making repositories and AI systems usable in everyday care’ (KIP)

PD Dr Guido Schmiemann in an interview with Spiegel on the various treatment methods for urinary tract infections

Students develop solutions for practice: the Bremen Public Health degree programme combines research, teaching and transfer in three-semester research projects.

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) promotes innovative interdisciplinary research of Prof. Gabriele Bolte and Prof. Karin Bammann at the IPP with 900.000 €

Guido Schmiemann from the IPP represents the German Society for General Practice and Family Medicine (DEGAM).

Compact presentation of the newly developed instruments for implementation by Prof Dr Gabriele Bolte and Sophie Horstmann

The focus of the current issue: innovative and participative learning formats in public health and nursing science. For the first time with numerous contributions from students!

Prof Dr Ingrid Darmann-Finck (IPP) was also appointed to the expert commission for the second legislative period by the Federal Minister of Health, Prof Dr Karl Lauterbach, and the Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Lisa Paus.

Prof Dr Ingrid Darmann-Finck and Dr Sebastian Partsch (IPP) present the evaluated and updated version of the Bremen curriculum at a symposium.

This year, the Research Cluster "Healthy City Bremen" set a focus of the conference on connecting practice and research discussing the "Healthy Cities" approach from various perspectives together with experts and researchers from Bremen and Bremerhaven.

Exciting insights into the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare - i|2|b idea together with the U Bremen Research Alliance and the Integrated Health Campus Bremen (IGB)

Presentation at the general meeting on November 21, 2024, in Würzburg

Award ceremony on 27 November 2024 in the Bremen Parliament

Birte Berger-Höger and Benjamin Schüz re-elected as members of the Board of Directors, Gabriele Bolte re-elected as Managing Director of IPP

In a letter to the Senator for Health, Women and Consumer Protection and the Senator for Environment, Climate and Science, representatives of Department 11, the IPP and the SOCIUM speak out in favor of the continued existence of the IGB for network work

Prof. Benjamin Schüz has been appointed as Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society in acknowledgement of his contributions to the science of Health Psychology

Prof Karin Wolf-Ostermann from IPP appointed to an innovation jury of the BMWK (Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection)

Intervention for people living with dementia in Shared Housing Arrangements attracted great interest from audience

Strategies for optimising urban development for dementia-friendly cities and results of the DemWG study on social health and quality of life

15th episode of the Digital Public Health Podcast of the research focus Health Science of the University of Bremen published

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

Focus on health equity based on the expertise of Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte

Publication from the INGER research network under the direction of Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte

The Senator for Health, Women and Consumer Protection presents the final report of the evaluation project of the IPP's Health Services Research Department headed by Prof. Dr. Ansgar Gerhardus

Lizzi Müller genannt Schumacher from the Bremen Public Health Department as a guest researcher in the Department of Health Services Research at IPP headed by Ansgar Gerhardus at IPP

11th episode of the Digital Public Health Podcast of the research focus Health Science of the University of Bremen published

Improving care through the use of digital solutions and simultaneously reducing the workload of care staff - this is the aim of the "Future of Care" research cluster funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This is now entering its second funding phase, which focuses on the…

Summary publication on the development and content of the DIVERGesTOOL project toolbox published

Invited lecture by Gabriele Bolte in the series “City Diagnoses” of the Global Health Hub Germany

Stefanie Dreger and Gabriele Bolte conduct transdisciplinary research on implementation gaps in the context of environmental justice

PhD student awarded prestigious tobacco control award

Together with around 400 guests, including renowned experts from politics, healthcare, associations and science, the Medical Service discussed solutions on June 6th how the legally guaranteed entitlement of insured persons to a high quality of care in medicine and nursing can be fulfilled,…

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

Prof Gabriele Bolte and Dr Stefanie Dreger from the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) at the University of Bremen give a lecture on the topic of "Health and Nature" at an event in the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum.

Prof. Karin Wolf-Ostermann from Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research at the University of Bremen is included.

Prof. Karin Wolf-Ostermann from the IPP at the University of Bremen was awarded the International Science Prize for her contribution to social and applied gerontology at the opening ceremony of the XI International Symposium on Gerontology at Akdeniz

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.

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.

Prof Wolf-Ostermann from the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) at the University of Bremen in the dossier " Digital turnaround - Digitalwende" in “Süddeutsche Zeitung”

On 02.02.2024, the projects of the Master's students and their results were presented to the cooperation partners of the degree program and the interested public in the House of Science.

Joint declaration of the Bremen research institutions united in the U Bremen Research Alliance and the State Rectors' Conference.

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

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

PD Dr. Guido Schmiemann, Department of Health Service Research at the IPP, was involved in the research project on behalf of the University of Bremen.

Prof. Dr. Ansgar Gerhardus from IPP is Co-editor

First network meeting on AI in care: areas of application, challenges and future prospects discussed by 80 people from science, practice, manufacturers and administration in Berlin.

Prof Dr Karin Wolf-Ostermann and Janissa Altona from IPP at University of Bremen support the Alzheimer Europe Conference with their scientific presentations.

Health literacy and public institutions: What are the responsibilities of professional actors? We are looking for you and your poster presentation on March 4th & 5th, 2024!

A new research project at IPP on health equity and high body weight will start on 01.10.2023.

The guideline project on climate-conscious prescribing of inhalers deals with the impact of pressurized metered dose inhalers on climate change. After an evaluation by the jury and the audience, the project was awarded the 3rd prize of 5,000€

Expert of the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) and Head of the Department of Nursing Care Research - Interview of Budrich publishing house on the occasion of the newly published 2nd edition on social space analyses

New website of the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research presents itself in a fresh design and with new content

Ceremonial presentation of the certificate at the meeting of the departmental council of FB 11

Expert of the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) and Head of Nursing Care Research on the use of AI in nursing - Interview with Joachim Ott, MEDICA

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

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

herzliche Einladung zur Teilnahme!

Prof. Dr. Melanie Böckmann has been the appointed Professor of Global Health at the University of Bremen since February 1st, 2023 and spokesperson for the Department of Global Health at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing.

Prof. Dr. Karin Wolf-Ostermann gave an informative interview for the third episode of the IGB podcast on the topics of academization of the nursing professions, community health nurses, and how society can benefit from academized nurses

Prof. Dr. Karin Wolf-Ostermann re-elected to the Board of the Ethics Committee of the German Nursing Association (DGP)

Professor of IPP, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, has successfully contributed to the second update

SteBs - Review 2021 and outlook 2022

“The right decision aids should present the advantages and disadvantages in a manner suited to the target group"