News - Professorship of Public Health and Prevention

Presentation at the Adipositas Conference at the Institute for European Health Policy and Social Law at Goethe University

Prof. Dr. Michael Laxy gives a presentation on the “Evidence on the (cost) effectiveness of obesity prevention measures and implications for government action” at the Institute for European Health Policy and Social Law at Goethe University (INEGES) as part of the conference “Obesity Prevention or Weight Loss Injection? Nutrition, Responsibility and Health”

New publication in the International Journal for Equity in Health

September 2024 – A new publication from the Public Health and Prevention team examines how inequalities are considered in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) when evaluating the effectiveness of mHealth for diabetics and hypertensive patients.

ERC Starting Grant EcIMPACT funded by Prof. Laxy with 1.5 million euros

September 2024 - Professor Laxy's ERC-STG project EcIMPACT (Health Economic Impact of Population-based Interventions for Prevention of Overweight and Obesity) has been selected for funding by the European Research Council (ERC).

Systematic mapping of public health master’s and structured doctoral programs in Germany - published in „BMC Medical Education”

August 2024 - A recent publication of the Public Health and Prevention Team in BMC Medical Education provides a comprehensive overview of public health education in Germany.

New publication highlights the importance of structural uncertainty when modeling the impact of a soft drink tax

August 2023 - New publication in BMC Public Health of the Public Health and Prevention Team highlights the need to consider structural uncertainty when modelling the health and economic effects of SSB taxes.

Presentations at the conference of the European Health Economics Association 2024

July 2024 - Three members of our Public Health and Prevention team presented and discussed health economic and health policy research at the EuHEA Conference, the biggest health economics conference in Europe.

Umbrella Review of the Assistant Professorship of Public Health and Prevention in "npj Digital Medicine"

December 2023 - Access the study "An umbrella review of effectiveness and efficacy trials for app-based health interventions" published in npj Digital Medicine via this link.

Michael Laxy and colleagues organized a joint workshop on ‘Evaluation of Public Health Interventions using Quasi-Experimental Methods’

November 2023 - Together with the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), the Professorship of Public Health and Prevention from the Technical University of Munich organized a joint Workshop on “Evaluation of Public Health Interventions using Quasi-Experimental Methods” on Nov 23.-24.

New study: Sugar tax in Germany could save as much as 16 billion euros

November 2023 - A simulation study conducted by Prof. Laxy and has team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) demonstrates that a soft drink tax in Germany would have significant positive effects.

RIGOR Award for Karl Emmert-Fees from the Assistant Professorship of Public Health and Prevention

August 2023 - Karl Emmert-Fees receives the "RIGorous Inference in Obesity Research" (RIGOR) Award for his publication "Estimating the impact of nutrition and physical activity policies with quasi-experimental methods and simulation modeling: an integrative review of methods, challenges and synergies".

Prof. Michael Laxy gives plenary presentation at the Leopoldina Symposium “Metabolic Disease: Between Research and Societal Relevance”.

June 2023 - Prof. Dr. Michael Laxy gave a planetary lecture with the title “prevention of diabetes: cost and benefits from a societal perspective” at the Leopoldina Symposium “Metabolic Disease: Between Research and Societal Relevance” in Bonn on June 16^th.

"DALIG“: New project in the field of digital health of the Associate Professorship of Public Health and Prevention

June 2023 - With the DALIG project, Prof. Dr. Michael Laxy's Chair of Public Health and Prevention is investigating the extent to which an app-based intervention supports recommended behavioral changes for diabetes prevention.

"ECON-Diabetes": New project of the Associate Professorship of Public Health and Prevention

May 2023 - With the project ECON-Diabetes the Associate Professorship of Public Health and Prevention headed by Prof. Dr. Michael Laxy aims to use microsimulation and prediction modeling to support evidence-based decision making in health policy with regard to diabetes prevention and care.

New projects "DASH" and "NUTRINT" in the field of Global Health of the Associate Professorship of Public Health and Prevention

May 2023 - 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.

New Publication on Germany’s Sugar Reduction Strategy for Soft Drinks

February 2023 - Researchers of the Professorship of Public Health und Prevention, together with the German Alliance for Non-Communicable Diseases (DANK) and colleagues from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, have analyzed data on sugar reduction for soft drinks in Germany. The result: Sugar reduction in soft drinks is not progressing, the federal government's reduction program is inadequate.

New Publication: The effect of population-based blood pressure screening on long-term cardiometabolic morbidity and mortality in Germany: A regression discontinuity analysis

February 2023 - This study was published in PLOS Medicine, you can access it here.

Travel of Dr. Jacob Burns and Prof. Michael Laxy to Tanzania to kick-off new projects on Adolescent Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

January 2023 - Dr. Jacob Burns and Prof. Michael Laxy traveled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in January 2023, where they co-organized several sessions during the ARISE Network Adolescent Health Coordination Meeting and presented at the 4th Annual Symposium of translating research into practice for adolescent health and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.

Two conference prizes and successful workshop teaching of the TUM-PHP team at the 17th International Diabetes Epidemiology Symposium in Porto

December 2022 - Members of the TUM Public Health & Prevention team presented research on the prevention of type 2 diabetes at the 17th International Diabetes Epidemiology Symposium in Porto, Portugal and won prizes for the best poster and best mini-oral presentations.

Publication of a special issue in the European Journal of Public Health as part of the Policy Evaluation Networks (PEN) project

December 2022 - As part of the Joint Programming Initiative on a Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life (JPI HDHL), members of the Public Health & Prevention team at TUM and the Institute of Epidemiology at Helmholtz Munich published their research in a special issue of the European Journal of Public Health.

Presentations at the conference of the European Health Economics Association 2022

July 2022 - Our Public Health & Prevention team held four oral presentations at the 2022 biannual conference of the European Health Economics Association in Oslo (Norway).

New publication of the professorship: economic evaluation of a type-1-diabetes screening

February 2022 - The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Diabetes Care, you can download it here .

New publication on the effectiveness of German disease management programs

November 2021 - The study was published in the journal BMC Public Health veröffentlich, you can find the Open Access publication here .

Prof. Laxy is section editor of a special issue in Frontiers in Public Health

October 2021 - Prof. Michael Laxy serves as a section editor of the special issue “Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in the New Era: Epidemiology, Treatment, and Economics” in the section Health Economics of the Journal Frontiers in Public Health.