Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP)

Three Department of Global Health members, Sophie Unterkircher, Anil Fastenau, and Matthew Willis, collaborated on a new Lancet Global Health study analyzing over 40 years of leprosy routine data in Pakistan.

In her keynote, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte, head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Inequalities at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, highlights the significance of social inequalities in the context of climate change and health

Adequately capturing sex/gender diversity remains a challenge in health research. The DIVERGesTOOL toolbox aims to support researchers and is currently being disseminated through teaching, lectures, and workshops.

In the Europe-wide SHIFT2HEALTH study, the team from the IPP's Health Services Research department is investigating the health of shift workers and non-shift workers in the healthcare sector

At the EDCTP Forum, Anil Fastenau presented the session "Stopping Leprosy Transmission", highlighting how integrating leprosy interventions into broader skin NTD strategies can improve early detection and support long-term disease management.

The Erasmus cooperation between the IPP's Department of Health Care Research and Akdeniz University will be further promoted and enriched by the visit of health care researchers on July, 2nd, 2025.

This question was addressed in an interdisciplinary workshop as part of the DivO-Inform project funded by the German Cancer Aid, organised by the Department of Nursing Evaluation and Implementation Research at the IPP of the University of Bremen, among others.

Prof Dr Karin Wolf-Ostermann from IPP took part in the Capital Congress on Medicine and Health in Berlin and gave a lecture.

The Care Innovation Centre (PIZ), coordinated by OFFIS e.V., hosted the first ‘Salongespr?ch zur Zukunft der Pflege’ on 12 June 2025 in the Innovationsquartier Oldenburg.