10-12.11.2025: Autumn Academy Public Health

The public health service - the challenges of population health in times of crisis

Social inequality, psychological stress, climate change, pandemics and even armed conflicts - current crises and threats have a profound impact on the lives and health of the population. With the motto "Challenges of Population Health in Times of Crisis", the Summer School Public Health 2025 is opening its doors for the fourth time - this time as an autumn academy from November 10 to 12, 2025.

The three-day, interdisciplinary event brings together students of medicine and health sciences as well as young professionals in the public health service (ÖGD). You can expect expert presentations with insights into the diverse tasks of public health departments, in-depth workshops and an intensive exchange with each other and with municipal experts. The event will kick off with a keynote speech on the current topic by invited speaker Dr. Nießen (BiÖG), followed by a panel discussion. You can look forward to exciting impulses, practical workshops and new perspectives on public health in turbulent times!

The event will take place on the premises of the Lower Saxony Health Authority (NLGA). Participation is free of charge, online registration is required. The maximum number of participants is 90. The event is organized by the NLGA, the Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research at Hannover Medical School (MHH), the Landesvereinigung für Gesundheit und Akademie für Sozialmedizin Niedersachsen e. V. (LVG & AFS) and the Hannover Region.

To register, please use our website: https://nlga-fortbildung.niedersachsen.de.

Registration deadline: 03.11.2025.

Training points: Continuing education points will be applied for at the Lower Saxony Medical Association for this event.

Participation fee: The three-day interdisciplinary Autumn Academy is free of charge.

Organization: NLGA, Carolin Pingel, phone: 0511/4505-128, e-mail: fortbildung@nlga.niedersachsen.de

Organizers: Lower Saxony State Health Office (NLGA), Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research at Hannover Medical School (MHH), State Association for Health and Academy for Social Medicine Lower Saxony Bremen e. V. (LVG & AFS), Hannover Region

Scientific management: Dr. Fabian Feil (NLGA), Thomas Altgeld (LVG & AFS), Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Dierks (MHH), Marlene Graf (Hannover Region), Prof. Dr. Ulla Walter (MHH)

Venue: NLGA, Seminar room Leine, Roesebeckstraße 4-6, 30449 Hanover

Article about the HeartGap project

An article on our project "HeartGap - Gender Health Gaps in guideline-oriented inpatient cardiology care and implementation strategies to reduce them" has been published on the website of the Innovation Fund/G-BA. You can find it here:

https://innovationsfonds.g-ba.de/service/projekteinblicke/heartgap/

23-25.09.2024: Summer School Public Health

The Public Health Service for a healthier society

Social challenges, such as the health consequences of social inequality and climate change, can be seen in communities as if under a magnifying glass. The Public Health Service (ÖGD) must develop and implement local concepts for this. "Local public health" is the new mission statement of the ÖGD, which focuses on the community as a place of action. This is where evidence-based findings and innovative strategies should be used in a targeted manner.

This year's Summer School offers participants the opportunity to get to know the ÖGD and its diverse tasks and methods. A public health department will present itself and its various professional groups. Practical presentations and interactive workshops will show what measures are required locally to safeguard drinking water, contain infections or deal with the consequences of climate change on health. Physicians will provide insights into their work and show how important the social situation is for health - be it on the basis of data from school entry examinations or in the medical care of people without health insurance. Health reporting and planning play a decisive role in identifying local areas of action and using resources efficiently.

The three-day interdisciplinary summer school in Hanover is aimed at students and graduates from various study programmes, medicine, public health and health sciences, various health professions as well as interested persons from public health and health care institutions.

Here is the program for your information.

09.-11.10.2023: Summer School Public Health

The public health service on the move: proven concepts and new strategies

The ÖGD is called upon to maintain and improve public health in the face of growing climatic, demographic and social challenges. This requires new strategies and adapted methods.

Our second Summer School focused on the current structure of the ÖGD, its tasks and new concepts. The various fields of activity - health protection, environmental medicine, health promotion and prevention, social psychiatric care and health reporting - were presented in lectures. Best practice examples were used in the seminars to provide in-depth information. Furthermore, experts from the public health service, politics and science discussed the status and implementation of modernization strategies to strengthen the public health service together with the participants. They reflected on how networking is implemented, how proximity to citizens and target group orientation succeed and what needs to be done to establish the ÖGD as crisis-proof.

The free summer school was aimed at students from various study programmes (medicine, public health), physicians and those interested in taking on tasks in the ÖGD.

Annual Conference of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) 2023

The 58th Annual Conference of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) was organized jointly with the German Network for Health Literacy (DNGK) and the National Action Plan for Health Literacy (NAP) from 30 August to 1 September 2023 in Hanover. The conference was hosted by Hannover Medical School; the conference presidents were Prof. Dr. med. Eva Maria Bitzer, Freiburg University of Education, and Prof. Dr. med. Ulla Walter, Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research, MHH.

Under the motto "Health literacy in times of crisis", there was a discussion on the contribution that social medicine, public health and other specialist disciplines (can) make to understanding and coping with the current crises in scientific and practical terms. Prof. Dr. Ilona Kickbusch (Brienz), Prof. Stephan Lessenich (Frankfurt) and Prof. Dr. Doris Schaeffer (Berlin) were invited as keynote speakers and provided valuable impetus for stimulating discussions.