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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 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.

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.

Die Studie "An umbrella review of effectiveness and efficacy trials for app-based health interventions" wurde in der Zeitschrift npj Digital Medicine veröffentlicht.

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…

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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