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…

The BIPS Institute Seminar on May 14, 2025, focused on how data science can provide practical support for epidemiological research. The presentation highlighted how data science methods can help to better structure research processes and…

Apps for weight loss – Can digital health apps effectively treat obesity? Anouk Wellmann talks to Rasmus Cloes about opportunities, challenges, and ethical issues.

Many people in Germany regularly participate in cancer screening programs. However, the same rules apply to everyone—for example, the recommended age and frequency of screening. New research, in which the Leibniz Institute for Prevention…

At the BIPS Institute Seminar, Jessica Young, Associate Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, presented a new perspective on the consistency condition in modern causal…