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… [read more]

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. [read more]

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". [read more]

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 16th. [read more]

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. [read more]

At the 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. [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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 Zentrum München have published their research in a special issue of the European Journal of Public… [read more]

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. [read more]