Organizer: Family Health Research Network (Medical Sociology)
Venue/Room: Career Campus Hannover, October 8–9, 2026
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Contact person: Claudia Kirsch
Email address: Kirsch.Claudia@mh-hannover.de
Mental health is a vital resource for families and our society. The symposium brings together experts from academia and practice to discuss the latest findings, innovative approaches, and effective strategies.
Join us! The symposium is aimed at health and social policy makers and scientists, funding agencies, hospital operators, hospital administrators, and professionals from mother-father-child facilities or institutions, health counseling centers, and private practice physicians, as well as mothers, fathers, and anyone interested in the topic.
You can look forward to keynote speeches by Jo Lücke, author of *Für Sorge: Wie Equal Care euer Familienleben rettet* (For Care: How Equal Care Saves Your Family Life), and Laura Fröhlich, author of *Die Frau fürs Leben ist nicht das Mädchen für alles* (The Woman for Life Is Not the Girl for Everything) and *Familie als Team* (Family as a Team), as well as academic presentations from the Family Health Research Network team, Prof. Dr. Martin Bujard, Research Director for Family and Fertility at the Federal Institute for Population Research, Dr. Claudia Recksiedler from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies and Methods at the German Youth Institute, and Prof. Dr. Doris Erbe from the Department of Applied Social Sciences at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences, among others.
Open to anyone interested.