Yesterday in Berlin, the Leibniz Association decided to support the Leibniz Science Campus Digital Public Health for another four years with 1.2 million euros. This will enable the Campus, founded in 2019, to continue and expand its…

The National Research Data Infrastructure for Personal Health Data (NFDI4Health) is setting up four projects in the field of citizen science. The goal is to reduce concerns about the use of data through intensive exchange with interested…

Epidemiologist on lessons learned from pandemic: "No strong momentum"

In March 2020, the first Corona Lockdown went into effect. Since then, Bremen-based epidemiologist Hajo Zeeb has been in demand among journalists around the world.

An interactive, evidence-based, multilingual, and free-access platform for fitness testing and interpretation in children and adolescents is based on data from the IDEFICS/I.Family studies. A recent study explains the implications of…

Bremen nutritionist clears up 9 nutrition myths

Today is the "day of the healthy nutrition". But what is healthy, what is not? A Bremen nutritionist sets right what many have learned wrong.

Protection from radiation: Why cell phones are no longer a problem

Cell phones, solariums, computer tomography - there are many sources of radiation to which people are exposed. Bremen epidemiologist Hajo Zeeb explains why the danger from…

Going for a walk: This is how healthy daily exercise is

We should walk at least 7,000 steps a day - that's the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO). But those who aren't kept on their toes by their job or their dog are…

What needs to change so that we eat better

Whether someone can live healthily depends on money and time. How can we give everyone the same opportunities to eat well and get enough exercise?

Prof. Dr. Hajo Zeeb has been a member of the Radiation Protection Commission (SSK) since 2021. He heads the Department of Prevention and Evaluation at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS. He has set himself…

How harmful is it to your health to live on a major road? Are info-mails from research institutes to stakeholders actually read? And: How must health policy be made so that plans for a healthier society actually reach where they need to?…