There is a change in the institute leadership at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ahrens, head of the Department of Epidemiological Methods and Causal Research, hands over the…

The new Lusatian Center for Digital Public Health at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) is researching the opportunities and risks of the digital further development of healthcare in the region. In doing so,…

We were saddened to learn of the sudden death of our founding director Prof. Dr. Eberhard Greiser.

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.

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

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).

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…

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?…

Preventing disease and promoting health - these two core aspects are being investigated by five research associations funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Together they are coordinated by the PRESENT…