Partners in research and teaching include the following:
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
- Regional Office of WHO for Europe, Copenhagen
- WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
- State Institute of Public Health (liga), Bielefeld
- State Insurance Institute, Westphalia, Münster
- Johannes Evangel. Foundation Bielefeld
- Foundation of von Bodelschwingh Bethel, NRW, Bielefeld
- Center of Cardiology and Diabetes, Bad Oeynhausen
- City Hospital Bielefeld
- Westphalian Center for psychiatry and mental disorders, Paderborn
- University of Applied Sciences, Department of Nursing and Health Bielefeld
- Medical Faculty of the University of Witten-Herdecke
- University of Newcastle, Australia
- Baskent University, Ankara
- Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi/India
- UCLA, San Francisco
- Medical Faculty, University of Münster
- Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf
- Medical Faculty, University of Cologne
- Medical Faculty, University of Essen-Duisburg
- Bielefeld City administration
- Minden-Lübbecke District administration
- Unna District administration
