The Australian-German SISTAQUIT collaboration has received the 2026 SIRC Mission Award. The partners adapted a program to protect pregnant women and newborns from tobacco smoke for the German context and tested it in Bremen. The initiative…

Within the U Bremen Research Alliance (UBRA), BIPS works closely with the University of Bremen and twelve other research partners. As a symbol of this collaboration, a UBRA Meeting Point has now been installed at BIPS. In the interview,…

On August 27, Prof. Dr. sc. hum. Ulrike Haug, head of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, answered questions from the audience as part of the interactive…

An exciting week exploring a rapidly evolving field is coming to an end. IJCAI2026 has shown that the conversation around artificial intelligence has shifted—from “What can AI do?” to “What should and may AI do?”

Prof. Dr. Iris Pigeot, director of the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), has been awarded a newly established prize by the International Biometric Society (IBS). The society is recognizing the outstanding…

How can health data be meaningfully linked across Europe without compromising its scientific validity? A study from NFDI4Health provides important insights on this topic and is contributing to discussions on the design of the European…

Prof. Dr. Hajo Zeeb vom Leibniz-Institut für Präventionsforschung und Epidemiologie – BIPS hat zu dem Sammelband "Gesundheitskompetenz in Krisenzeiten" beigetragen. Herausgegeben haben es Doris Schaeffer, Lennert Griese, Himal Singh,…

Yasemin Albayrak has successfully completed her apprenticeship as an office administration assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS. On June 4, 2026, the institute bid farewell to its apprentice…

How can scientific evidence on noncommunicable diseases be translated into effective public health practice? That question was at the heart of the latest BIPS Institute Seminar, featuring Dr. Kremlin Wickramasinghe, WHO/Europe Regional…

At BIPS, we had the opportunity to discuss the institute’s work and the social significance of prevention research with Arno Gottschalk, a member of the State Parliament, and Marc Fucke, chair of the Peterswerder/Steintor SPD chapter and…