On July 17 and 18, 2023, a workshop in the framework of the DFG Sino-German collaboration "Epidemiological methods and experiences in research on child and adolescent health" took place at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and…

On July 4, 2023, the BIPS team participated in the 16th Bremen company run for the late shift. With a lot of team spirit and sportsmanship, the BIPS employees completed the five-kilometer course.

Children and adolescents were particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, good data proving the concrete consequences has often been lacking or difficult to find. A new cooperation between the coverCHILD and NFDI4Health…

BIPS celebrated its 40th anniversary at the end of May. Here are some impressions.

Senate reception at Bremen City Hall to mark the anniversary of the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS.

From 20.3. to 24.3. guests from Sub-Saharan African countries visited the BIPS to discuss the feasibility of cohort studies on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).

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…