Welcome to a new episode of the Digital Public Health Podcast! This time we welcome Dr. Elida Sina, who gives us insights into her research on the impact of social media on children's health. Elida has found that the intensive use of…

Dr Sarah Forberger, a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, recently received an invitation from the University of Bristol to give a lecture on the implementation of interventions and health…

On April 23 and 24, 2023, a meeting of the NAKO study center management took place at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS in Bremen. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss ongoing research work and plan…

The latest issue of the Bundesgesundheitsblatt focuses on the digital transformation in the healthcare sector. Under the title "Digital population-based health in Germany - examples from research at the Leibniz Science Campus Digital Public…

NFDI4Health and experts from politics, science, and healthcare met in Berlin on 13 March 2024 to discuss the topic of record linkage – the linkage of health data from diverse sources for an individual. The participants consider the meeting…

Federal 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.

Pegah 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…

A 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…

Dr. 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…

Last 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…