How can children and young people learn to evaluate health information on the internet correctly? And what responsibility do systems such as YouTube or TikTok have? Host Rasmus Cloes discusses this with Kevin Dadaczynski, Professor of…

At the BIPS Institute Seminar, Petal Petersen Williams presented a community-based counseling program that addresses alcohol consumption during pregnancy in South Africa. The presentation on August 27, 2025, focused on CAP-Pre (Counseling…

Between the microscope and machine learning, a technology is emerging that is changing everyday life in laboratories—and raising questions about responsibility, regulation, and the future of the profession. In the latest episode of the…

The Senate of the Leibniz Association has today published a statement on the report by an international review panel which assessed the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS. The Senate endorsed the highly…

NFDI4Health is entering its second funding phase, marking a crucial step towards establishing a permanent infrastructure for health data. The consortium continues to focus on open and transparent data exchange – of course, in strict…

The mammography screening program for women aged 50 to 69, introduced 20 years ago, is making a significant contribution to reducing breast cancer mortality. Among women who participated in the screening, breast cancer deaths fell by…

Bremen wants to change its eating habits—healthier, more sustainable, more regional. On July 7, 2025, the Forum Küche kicked off the joint project “Gemeinsam Ernährungswende gestalten” (GEG, Shaping the Food Transition Together). Around 40…

Host Rasmus Cloes spoke with Dr. Irmhild Rogalla, head of the Institute for Digital Inclusion at Bremen University of Applied Sciences, on the Digital Public Health Podcast about solutions for an accessible digital world. According to her,…

The DFG is currently preparing a funding call for data repositories in the context of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The background to this is the increasing demand for storage capacity for research data, which cannot be…

At the BIPS Institute seminar on June 25, 2025, Edward Giovannucci discussed how influences in childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood can shape cancer risk in middle to late life. The focus was on the growing evidence that early stages…