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…

Back pain from lifting incorrectly? A wearable beeps – before it hurts. Esteban Bayro-Kaiser tells host Rasmus Cloes in the Digital Public Health Podcast how his company WearHealth protects industrial workers.

In bright sunshine and summer temperatures, BIPS once again took part in the B2Run company run in Bremen in 2025.

The Post-COVID Challenge, initiated by Germany’s Federal Ministries of the Interior and for Economic Affairs, is accelerating the use of health data. The winning project, Datennexus, is a proposal developed by a consortium led by European…

For the third time, Research Data Day took place in Bremen on June 11, 2025. The event promotes exchange on current developments in research data management. Organized by the U Bremen Research Alliance, the day was held under the motto…

The last episode showed that digital solutions are only of limited help to people waiting for a donor organ. Host Rasmus Cloes discusses with Bremen's Senator for Health Claudia Bernhard which digital gaps politicians can fill. She draws on…

The Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, together with its partners from Ulm, Hanover, and Pakistan, has won the prestigious GLOHRA Prize for Global Health Research 2025. The award was given to the WellPak…

At the BIPS Institute Seminar on May 28, 2025, the focus was on how mass catering can contribute to creating a fair food environment. The presentation examined in particular the challenges of cost management in daycare and school catering…

In this episode of the Digital Public Health Podcast, Rasmus Cloes talks to Sonja Schäfer, the organ donation officer for the state of Bremen. The topic is the new digital organ donor registry, which has been available in Germany since…