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The "German Diversity Day" is an annually recurring, nationwide day of action that calls on organizations to champion diversity and create social awareness for diversity. This year, the 11th German Diversity Day will take place on May 23. TUM was the first German university to sign the Diversity… [read more]

At the Assistant Professorship of Public Health and Prevention headed by Prof. Dr. Michael Laxy, two new projects have started, which deal with the health behavior and health of adolescents in Africa. In total, the two studies will examine a total cohort of 15,000 to 20,000 adolescents and evaluate… [read more]

The education system of the future faces great challenges. This has been shown not least by the Corona pandemic. Topics such as digitalization or home schooling are playing an increasingly important role. Teachers are at the center of this - especially in dealing with their health. It is now widely… [read more]

Reach into the fridge, get out a cold drink, open the bottle, pour and drink. Banalities like these are experienced by every person every day. But what happens when such simple movements suddenly become difficult? Diseases such as strokes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's or dementia mean that… [read more]

More than half of all students between the ages of nine and 18 consider themselves to have poor digital health literacy. The picture is only slightly better among their teachers. 42 percent of them consider themselves to be insufficiently equipped to obtain and deal with health information on the… [read more]