Germany urgently needs an initiative for prevention and health - that is the conclusion of the Science Council's conference "Rethinking Prevention", which took place in Berlin at the end of May. Experts from science and politics, including…

Kathrin Moosdorf, Senator for the Environment, Climate and Science in Bremen, visited BIPS today. Together with some of her staff, she learned about the institute's current projects and key areas of focus. During the lively exchange, the…

Dr Sarah Forberger, a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, recently received an invitation from the University of Bristol to give a lecture on the implementation of interventions and health…

On April 23 and 24, 2023, a meeting of the NAKO study center management took place at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS in Bremen. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss ongoing research work and plan…

Pegah Golchian, a young scientist at BIPS, caused quite a stir at the 70th Biometric Colloquium. With her presentation on "Adversarial Random Forests for the Imputation of Missing Values", she was able to convince the jury and win the…

A study recently published in the Lancet, in which BIPS was involved, provides new insights into the global rise in obesity and the simultaneous decline in underweight. The research findings point to a worrying global health trend and call…

Dr. Ronja Foraita, Head of the Division "Statistical Methods for Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology" at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, was elected Secretary of the International Biometric Society…

Last Thursday, Prof. Dr. Hajo Zeeb was elected 1st Chairman of the German Society for Public Health (DGPH) in Düsseldorf. Zeeb heads the Department of Prevention and Evaluation at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and…

On 6 February 2024, NFDI4Health was invited to the NFDI evaluation symposium in Bonn. The members demonstrated their remarkable progresses in building a FAIR infrastructure for personal health data. The event resulted in an exciting…

Data Train is a training program that teaches skills of data literacy to scientists of all career levels. The hybrid course is a key element of the NFDI4Health training approach and aims at building the next generation of data-savvy…