Anna-Janina Stephan, Ph.D., MPH
Research associate
| Professorship of Public Health & Prevention Technical University of Munich Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60/62 80992 Munich | Room: M-514 Telephone: +49 (0) 89/289 24984 E-Mail: anna-janina.stephan(at)tum.de |
Profile
Anna-Janina Stephan has been a research associate at the TUM Professorship of Public Health and Prevention since January 2021. In April 2024, she joined the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA, for an 18-month postdoctoral research fellowship funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation, project number: 532417373). In 2023, she participated in the European Talent Academy, a joint career development program by Imperial College London, Politecnico di Milano and TU Munich. Anna holds a Ph.D. (2019) in "Medical Research - Epidemiology and Public Health" and a Master’s degree (2014) in Public Health (MPH) from LMU Munich, as well as a Bachelor’s degree (2012) in Political and Administrative Sciences (B.A.) from the University of Konstanz. Before joining TUM, she worked as a research associate at the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology (IBE) at LMU Munich, at the German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders (DSGZ) at the LMU University Hospital, and as Manager Market Access Vaccines in the pharmaceutical industry.
Research Interests
- Evaluation of complex interventions through pragmatic trials in the field of digital health
- Target trial emulation in secondary data, especially health insurance claims
- Application of machine learning methods for prediction modelling in health insurance claims
- Equity aspects in impact evaluation
- Chronic non-communicable diseases with a special focus on prediabetes, diabetes complications, heart failure, ageing and frailty
Selected Publications
Stephan, AJ., Hanselmann, M., Bajramovic, M., Schosser, S., Laxy, M. Development and Validation of Prediction Models for Stroke and Myocardial Infarction in Type 2 Diabetes Patients Based on German Health Insurance Claims Data–Do Modern Machine Learning Methods Outperform Traditional Regression Approaches? Available at SSRN. 2024. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4781312 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4781312
Chong OK., Pedron S., Abdelmalak N., Laxy M., Stephan AJ. An umbrella review of effectiveness and efficacy trials for app-based health interventions. NPJ Digital Medicine 2023;6.1:233, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00981-x
Fan M., Stephan AJ., Emmert‑Fees K., Peters A., Laxy M. Health and economic impact of improved glucose, blood pressure and lipid control among German adults with type 2 diabetes: a modelling study. Diabetologia 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-023-05950-3
Stephan, AJ., Schwettmann, L., Meisinger, C., Ladwig, K. H., Linkohr, B., Thorand, B., Schulz, H., Peters, A., Grill, E. Living longer but less healthy: The female disadvantage in health expectancy. Results from the KORA-Age study. Experimental Gerontology 2021;145:111196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2020.111196
Stephan AJ., Strobl R., Schwettmann L., Meisinger C., Ladwig KH., Linkohr B., Thorand B., Peters A., Grill E. Being born in the aftermath of World War II increases the risk for health deficit accumulation in older age: results from the KORA-Age study. European Journal of Epidemiology. 2019;34(7):675-687. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-019-00515-4
Stephan AJ., Strobl R., Holle R., Grill E. Wealth and occupation determine health deficit accumulation onset in Europe – Results from the SHARE study. Experimental Gerontology. 2018;113:74-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2018.09.021
Stephan AJ., Kovacs E., Phillips A., Schelling J., Ulrich SM., Grill E. Barriers and facilitators for the management of vertigo: a qualitative study with primary care providers. Implementation Science. 2018;13(1):25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-018-0716-y
