• E-mail: Mueller-Mundt.Gabriele@mh-hannover.de

Gabriele Müller-Mundt has been an associate of the Institute ofGeneral Medicine and Palliative Medicine since 2025. She was a research associate at the Institute from 2014 to 2024.

After training as a nurse and several years of clinical work, Gabriele Müller-Mundt completed a master's degree in sociology (major), modern history and the history of science and technology at the Technical University of Berlin. During her studies, she began working as a student assistant in the "Work - Technology - Health" department (headed by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Badura) at the Institute of Sociology there. After completing her Master's degree in 1991, she worked at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld (1991-1992), the Institute of Health Sciences (formerly: Institute of Hospital Construction) at the Technical University of Berlin (1992-1995) and the Agnes Karll Institute for Nursing Research of the German Professional Association for Nursing Professions in Eschborn (1995-1998). In 1999, she moved to the Faculty of Health Sciences at Bielefeld University, where she worked in the Health Services Research/Nursing Science working group and at the Institute of Nursing Science (headed by Prof. Dr. Doris Schaeffer) and completed her doctorate in Public Health in 2004 on the topic of "Living with chronic pain".

Since 2011, Ms. Müller-Mundt has been at Hannover Medical School, where she initially worked at the Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research.

Ms. Müller-Mundt's research activities focus on patient-centered and family-oriented healthcare research (living with chronic illness, pain/symptom and therapy management in everyday life, patient/family education and self-management support) as well as interprofessionalism and healthcare integration. At the Institute, Ms. Müller-Mundt is primarily dedicated to health services research in palliative care.