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1. Symposium "Growing up healthy in daycare centers, schools and neighbourhoods - focus on promoting physical activity"

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Date: 13-06-24

The symposium is a joint event of the Coordination Office for Equal Health Opportunities Bremen and the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS as well as the Competence…

2. Bremen Colloquium Epidemiology - Public Health: Social inequalities in childhood cancer: key points from the WHO European report on childhood cancer inequalities in the WHO European Region

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Date: 10-04-24

The Bremen Colloquium on Epidemiology - Public Health is a joint series of events organized by BIPS and the University of Bremen as part of the scientific focus on health sciences. Invited speakers…

3. BIPS in the Media

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Date: 09-04-24

BIPS in the Media

4. NFDI4Health Friday Lecture on the Health Data Use Act

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Date: 05-04-24

NFDI4Health opens its Friday Lecture on 5 April 2024 on the topic of the Health Data Use Act (GDNG). Prof. Dr. Dennis-Kenji Kipker will provide information on innovations and special features of the…

5. Digital health in Germany: An edition of the Bundesgesundheitsblatt highlights future potential

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Date: 05-04-24

A woman listens to music on her smartphone during yoga.

The latest issue of the Bundesgesundheitsblatt focuses on the digital transformation in the healthcare sector. Under the title "Digital population-based health in Germany - examples from research at…

6. GePaRD_description_V2.2.pdf

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Date: 28-03-24

Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database (GePaRD) Pharmacoepidemiological research is predominantly conducted on the basis…

7. Researchers call for better linkage of health data during discussions with members of the Bundestag

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Date: 27-03-24

NFDI4Health and experts from politics, science, and healthcare met in Berlin on 13 March 2024 to discuss the topic of record linkage – the linkage of health data from diverse sources for an…

8. Federal Chancellery appoints BIPS Director to the "Health and Resilience" Expert Council

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Date: 18-03-24

The newly formed Expert Council on Health and Resilience.

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomed the members of the new Expert Council on Health and Resilience to the inaugural meeting at the Federal Chancellery today. BIPS Director Prof. Dr. Iris Pigeot…

9. BIPS junior scientist wins prize for the best presentation at the 70th Biometric Colloquium

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Date: 18-03-24

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…

10. More than one billion people live with obesity today, according to a global analysis with BIPS participation

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Date: 06-03-24

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…