Dr. Núria Pedrós Barnils

GWI C2480
Tel.: 0421-218-68832
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Dr. Núria Pedrós Barnils ist Postdoktorandin am Institut für Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung der Universität Bremen und am Institut für Epidemiologie und Globale Gesundheit der Universität Umeå. Sie promovierte 2025 und hat Abschlüsse in Biosystems Engineering, Public Health und Migration Studies.
Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind:
• Gesundheitliche Ungleichheiten, insbesondere verhaltensbezogene gesundheitliche Ungleichheiten
• Intersektionalitätstheorie, insbesondere quantitative intersektionale Methoden
• Komplexe Modellierung
Ihre derzeitigen Lehrveranstaltungen
• Globale gesundheitliche Ungleichheiten (Bachelor of Public Health)
• Intersektionalität, Ungleichheiten und Bullshit (Master Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention)
Education: PhD in Public Health (2025). Bremen University (Germany) MA in Migration Studies (2021). Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) MSc in Public Health (2018). Umeå University (Sweden) BSc in Biosystems Engineering (2015). Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain)
Work experience: Since March 2025: Staff researcher at the Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University (Sweden) Since January 2025: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Prevention and Health Promotion, Bremen University (Germany) January 2022 – December 2024: Doctoral researcher at the Department of Prevention and Health Promotion at Bremen University April 2020 – April 2021: Research project coordinator at the Computational Biology and Complex Systems group, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain) September 2019 – June 2021: Physics Associate Professor, Physics Department, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain) Since February 2017: Project coordinator in Lebanon, Senegal, and Catalonia. NGO ALKARIA, Barcelona (Spain) February 2012 – June 2015: Research assistant at the Computational Biology and Complex Systems group, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain) |
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Alazza, N. N., Emmer, C., Callies, C. M., Mata, J., & Schüz, B. (2025). Soziale Unterschiede im Gesundheitsverhalten verstehen und verändern: Ernährung als Schnittstelle zwischen sozialer Ungleichheit und Gesundheit. Bundesgesundheitsblatt-Gesundheitsforschung-Gesundheitsschutz, 1-8.
- Pan, C. C., De Santis, K. K., Muellmann, S., Hoffmann, S., Spallek, J., Pedros Barnils, N., & Schüz, B. (2025). Sociodemographics and digital health literacy in using wearables for health promotion and disease prevention: cross-sectional nationwide survey in Germany. Journal of Prevention, 46(3), 371-391.
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Schüz, B. (2025). Identifying intersectional groups at risk for missing breast cancer screening: Comparing regression- and decision tree-based approaches, SSM - Population Health, Volume 29, 2025, 101736, ISSN 2352-8273, doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2024.10173
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Gustafsson, Per E. (2025). Intersectional inequities in colorectal cancer screening attendance in Sweden: using decision trees for intersectional matrix reduction, Social Science & Medicine, 117583, ISSN 0277-9536, doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117583.
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Härtling, V., Singh, H., Schüz, B. (2024). Sociodemographic inequalities in breast cancer screening attendance in Germany following the implementation of an Organized Screening Program: Scoping Review. BMC Public Health 24, 2211. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19673-6
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Schüz, B. (2024). Intersectional analysis of inequalities in self-reported breast cancer screening attendance using supervised machine learning and PROGRESS-Plus framework. Frontiers in Public Health. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1332277
- Singh, H., Samkange-Zeeb, F., Kolschen, J., Herrmann, R., Hübner, W., Pedrós Barnils, N., Brand, T., Zeeb, H., Schüz, B. (2024). Interventions to promote health literacy among working-age populations experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage: systematic review. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1332720.
- Jahnel, T., Pan, C. C., Pedros Barnils, N., Muellmann, S., Freye, M., Dassow, H. H., Lange O., Reinschluessel A.V., Rogowski W., Gerhardus A. (2024). Developing and Evaluating Digital Public Health Interventions Using the Digital Public Health Framework DigiPHrame: A Framework Development Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, e54269.
- Fernandez, M.,* and Pedrós Barnils, N.* (2023). Integrative or segregative refugee hosting spaces, a matter of human rights. Compàs d’amalgama. doi: 10.1344/Compas.2023.7.42454.43-48
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Eurenius, E., & Gustafsson, P. E. (2020). Self-rated health inequalities in the intersection of gender, social class and regional development in Spain: exploring contributions of material and psychosocial factors. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19, 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-01202-7
*Shared first authorship
Buchbeiträge:
- Pan, C. C., Pedrós Barnils, N., Muellmann, S., Jahnel, T., Jürgens, D., Freye, M., ... & Gerhardus, A. (2025). A Framework to Develop and Evaluate Digital Public Health Interventions. In Digital Public Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 43-57). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Konferenzbeiträge:
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Schüz, B. (2025). Detecting intersectional inequalities in fruit-vegetables consumption in Germany and Spain: contribution of decision trees. European Health Psychology Society (EHPS)
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Härtling, V., Singh, H., Haug, U., Schüz, B. (2024). A scoping review on sociodemographic inequalities in breast cancer screening attendance in Germany. 2024. European Journal of Public Health, Volume 34, Issue Supplement_3, ckae144.918, doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.918
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Schüz, B. (2024). Facilitating subgroup identification: the use of decision trees in breast cancer screening uptake. European Journal of Public Health, Volume 34, Issue Supplement_3, ckae144.583, doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.583
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Schüz, B. (2024). Quantitative methods to understand disadvantage in health research – breast cancer screening attendance in Germany. European Health Psychology Society (EHPS)
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Schüz, B. (2024). Using decision trees to identify intersectional risk groups for never attending breast cancer screening, Germany. 20th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS)
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Schüz, B. (2023). Inequities in breast cancer screening utilisation in Spain - Using decision trees to identify intersections. Population Medicine, 5(Supplement), A1476. https://doi.org/10.18332/popmed/163755
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Pan, C., Reinschluessel, A. V., Freye, M., Muellmann, S. (2023). Insights into challenges of health interventions going digital - a perspective from human-computer interaction, law and sociology. Population Medicine, 5(Supplement), A652. https://doi.org/10.18332/popmed/165472
- Maaß, L., Freye, M., Pedrós Barnils, N., Pan, C. (2023). How to achieve effective interdisciplinarity in digital public health practice. Population Medicine, 5(Supplement), A646. https://doi.org/10.18332/popmed/165268
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Schüz, B. Covid-19 impacts on unemployment on the migration-gender intersections in Spain, a multilevel study: Núria Pedrós Barnils, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 32, Issue Supplement_3, October 2022, ckac129.315, doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac129.315
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Schüz, B. The “grey” digital divide in older adults during COVID-19 in Germany: Who is most at risk? Núria Pedrós Barnils. Eur J Public Health. 2022 Oct 25;32(Suppl 3): ckac130.059. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckac130.059. PMCID: PMC9593553.
- Pedrós Barnils, N., Fernandez, M. (2017) Water, social system and collective spaces in the Azraq refugee camp (Jordan) and the informal settlement of Terbol (Lebanon). Paper presented at the VII University and Development Cooperation Congress, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid.
Preise:
2023 Bremen IDEA Scholarship of the Central Research Development Fund (CRDF), University of Bremen (Germany)
- 2021 UPC Award for Social Commitment, in the modality Cooperation for the project “Monitoring the evolution of covid-19 pandemic in different countries and regions of the Global South”. Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain)
- Third most outstanding Master’s Thesis during the 2021 Promotion. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain)
- Best student in the BSc in Biological Systems Engineering 2015 Promotion. Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain)

