June 2025 - Members of the TUM Public Health and Prevention team recently participated in the Conference on Adolescent Health in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Annual ARISE Network Meeting, held in Lagos, Nigeria from June 23–26, 2025.
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Federal Minister of Health Nina Warken has appointed the ten members of the new Health Finance Commission. Among them are Prof. Dr. Leonie Sundmacher and Prof. Dr. Michael Laxy from the Department of Health and Sport Sciences.
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September 2025 – Laura Suhlrie, a research associate and PhD student from the Professorship of Public Health & Prevention (PHP) at TUM, attended the 24th German Congress for Health Services Research (DKVF) in Hamburg, Germany. Her participation included a presentation of the upcoming publication…
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June 2025 - PHP Team members successfully delivered an individual oral presentation and a group project showcase during the 1st European Public Health Economics Conference organized in Palermo, Sicily.
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Chair of Public Health and Prevention publishes new study in “Cardiovascular Diabetology” on the prediction of cardiovascular complications in type 2 diabetes.
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Monica Machado, from the TUM Professorship of Public Health and Prevention, attended the 17th European Public Health Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 13-15 November, 2024. Held annually, this year’s theme ‘Sailing the waves of European public health: exploring a sea of innovation’…
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Prof. Dr. Michael Laxy, together with Prof. Oberhoffer-Fritz, has been appointed by the Leopoldina to contribute his expertise to the working group on "Economic, Sociological, and Legal Dimensions."
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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…
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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.
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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).
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