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Bielefeld School of Public Health

AG 2: Department of Population Medicine and Health Services Research

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Research projects

Current projects

Funded by the European Research Council

  • INTERSECT - Migration trajectories, natural experiments and effects of small-area contexts on health: a privacy-preserving linkage study of routine and primary data among resettlement refugees

In cooperation with the Robert Koch-Institute

  • STRONGDATA-Kids - Strengthening health data systems on migration and flight in Germany: a pilot study using the example of child and adolescent mental health

  • StopptCOVID-Studie - How to stop a pandemic? Effectiveness and impact of non-pharmaceutical intervetions to control the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

  • ÖGD-FORTE - Research, Training and Evidence Network for Public Health (further partners in the network: Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf and Public Health Departments of Bielefeld, Enzkreis/Pforzheim & Hamburg-Altona). Project website

In cooperation with the Heidelberg University Hospital 

  • PROTECT-ING - IT-gestützte Verfahren zur Schutzbedarfsidentifizierung und -dokumentation

  • Border Policies, Securitization and Migrant Health

  • GLOHRA Catalogue of Competencies - A structured competency model for global health research training and development at doctoral and postdoctoral level

  • Global Health Repository - Developing a repository of global health training offers

  • NEXUS - Natural experiment on contextual effects on health and health care among refugees
  • RESPOND - Improving regional health system responses to the challenges of migration through tailored interventions for asylum-seekers and refugees
  • PRICARE - Health and primary‐care sentinel surveillance in reception‐ and accommodation‐centres for asylum‐seekers in Germany

Further projects

  • AnTiB - Antibiotic therapy in Bielefeld

  • DignityFIRM - Improving the conditions of irregularized migrants working in Farm to Fork-labour markets in EU member and associated states. Project website

More projects

  • Challenges and opportunities of global refugee migration for health care in Germany (part of the ‘research college’ FlüGe as part of the research strategy "Fortschritt NRW")
  • Regional differences in care needs, taking morbidity into account. Spatiotemporal analyses of the need for and use of nursing care (part of the NuV Research Network, focusing on user-oriented health care for people with chronic conditions and long-term care needs).
  • Health and development-promoting potential of urban green spaces and playgrounds for children (part of the Junior Research Group StadtLandschaft & Gesundheit)
  • The implementation of the WHO strategy "Health for all” in the world of work – the contribution of foreign companies through workplace health promotion (BGF) in the Russian Federation
  • Disability weights for chronic mercury intoxication due to mercury exposure in artisanal small-scale gold mining
  • Improvement of Febrile Disease Diagnostics through Capacity-Building in Africa (FEDIA)
  • Community-oriented preventive interventions: Establishing health profiles using validated questionnaires as well as providing and evaluating computer-based counselling based on individual health risks.
  • Secondary analysis of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data: disease burden in children, vaccinations, etc.
  • Concepts and Methods of the Burden of Disease Instruments with Applications for Environmental Diseases in Germany
  • Influence of migration on the prevalence of hepatitis B in Germany, and epidemiology of hepatitis care in migrants
  • Epidemiological studies on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections
  • Methodological aspects of capturing social contact structures relevant for the transmission of droplet infections
  • POLYMOD: Improving Public Health Policy in Europe through the modelling and economic evaluation of interventions for the control of infectious diseases
  • Monitoring the health of migrants within Europe: development of indicators for infectious diseases
  • Epidemiology of health care services for intravenous drug users with HIV infection
  • Coordination of a working group to develop mathematical and statistical models and analyses of protective factors for HIV infection among injecting drug users. EMCDDA, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Updated estimates of chronic hepatitis B prevalence in the Netherlands: risk-group analysis approach. LiverDoc, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • The epidemiology of HIV and syphilis infections in intravenous drug users in China
  • Reproductive health rights among women in Palestine
  • Community-oriented primary care (COPC) for Arab women in Cologne
  • Epidemiology of health care services for patients with carpal tunnel syndrome in Bielefeld, Germany
  • Analysis of school entry examinations: Partial performance disorders in children, obesity, vaccination, migrant children, role of kindergarten attendance
  • DFG Scherpunktprogramm Megacities-Megachallenge, Project 1: Informal settlements, economics and environmental change and public health strategies to improve the quality of life in Dhaka
  • DFG Priority Programme Megacities-Megachallenge: Project 2: Satellite-based aerosol mapping over megacities – Development and application in health and climate-related studies
  • Health survey for students in NRW
  • Planning and implementation of international comparative studies on the health of students with a focus on mental health (Student Life Cohort in Europe (SLiCE); Cross national students' health study (CNSHS)).
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