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Federal Chancellery appoints BIPS Director to the "Health and Resilience" Expert Council
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- Biometry and Data ManagementPress
Read moreFederal Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomed the members of the new Expert Council on Health and Resilience to the inaugural meeting at the Federal Chancellery today. BIPS Director Prof. Dr. Iris Pigeot is also member of the council.
BIPS junior scientist wins prize for the best presentation at the 70th Biometric Colloquium
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- Biometry and Data ManagementNews
Read morePegah Golchian, a young scientist at BIPS, caused quite a stir at the 70th Biometric Colloquium. With her presentation on "Adversarial Random Forests for the Imputation of Missing Values", she was able to convince the jury and win the…
More than one billion people live with obesity today, according to a global analysis with BIPS participation
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- Epidemiological Methods and Etiological ResearchBiometry and Data ManagementNewsResearch results
Read moreA study recently published in the Lancet, in which BIPS was involved, provides new insights into the global rise in obesity and the simultaneous decline in underweight. The research findings point to a worrying global health trend and call…
New Secretary of the International Biometric Society - German Region comes from BIPS
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- Biometry and Data ManagementNews
Read moreDr. Ronja Foraita, Head of the Division "Statistical Methods for Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology" at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, was elected Secretary of the International Biometric Society…
Prof. Dr. Hajo Zeeb takes over as Chairman of the German Society for Public Health
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- Prevention and EvaluationNews
Read moreLast Thursday, Prof. Dr. Hajo Zeeb was elected 1st Chairman of the German Society for Public Health (DGPH) in Düsseldorf. Zeeb heads the Department of Prevention and Evaluation at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and…
NFDI4Health presents progress at the NFDI evaluation symposium
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- Prevention and EvaluationBiometry and Data ManagementNews
Read moreOn 6 February 2024, NFDI4Health was invited to the NFDI evaluation symposium in Bonn. The members demonstrated their remarkable progresses in building a FAIR infrastructure for personal health data. The event resulted in an exciting…
Data Train Kick-off event 2024
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- Biometry and Data ManagementNews
Read moreData Train is a training program that teaches skills of data literacy to scientists of all career levels. The hybrid course is a key element of the NFDI4Health training approach and aims at building the next generation of data-savvy…
Democracy. Diversity. Open-Mindedness.
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- BIPS DepartmentsNews
Read moreJoint declaration of the Bremen research institutions united in the U Bremen Research Alliance and the State Rectors' Conference
Digital Public Health: Scientific Symposium and 2nd Phase Opening Event
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- BIPS DepartmentsNews
Read moreThe LSC DiPH Scientific Symposium and 2nd Phase Opening Event, held on January 18, 2024, at the University of Bremen and the Übersee-Museum Bremen, was a landmark occasion that highlighted the exceptional strides made in the field of…
How our emotions influence what we eat
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- Epidemiological Methods and Etiological ResearchPressResearch results
Read moreA new study by the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS has investigated how emotional states influence the eating habits of children and adolescents and which interventions help to change unhealthy eating…