Departments & working groups

• Urban Health - Health in urban areas
• Environmental Justice - Equal Opportunities in Environment and Health
• Gender sensitive health science research - Sex/gender in epidemiology.
• Equity Impact of Public Health Interventions

• Health and demographic change
• Determinants of health behavior
• Methods in epidemiology

Evidence-based

Patient orientation and patient participation

Practice transfer

• Global Tobacco
• Climate Change Adaptation and Health
• Medical Anthropology in Global Health
• Neglected Tropical Diseases in Pakistan

• Sociology of health
• Social science addiction and drug policy research
• Gambling research
• Health in penal systems and criminal policy
• Work, organization and health

Health promotion and prevention across the lifespan.

Social-cognitive determinants and psychosocial aspects in the context of health and health behavior

Social and spatial determinants of health

Analysis of "added value" in the area of conflict between economics, ethics and social law

Model and routine data-based health economic evaluation

Innovation management in health care

• Methods for Evidence Based Public Health

• Evidence gain and dissemination

• (Mental) Students health

Social justice as the normative basis of public health

Health and disease in film and literature

Public Health Ethics Teaching

Body weight: socio-cultural and ethical aspects

Organ transplantation: socio-cultural, ethical and public health aspects

• Quality assurance and further development
• Further development of alternative care structures
• New technologies in nursing care
• Evidence-based
• Analysis of network structures

• Promotion of evidence-based nursing practice
• Informed Shared Decision Making und Decision Coaching

• Modernization of education, training and continuing education for health professions
• Development of innovative curricula
• Identification of professional qualification requirements
• Investigation of effects and backgrounds of curricula and especially of curricular reforms