Laura Böhme, M. Sc.

Research Associate

Research Focus: Health Economics and Health Policy

E-Mail: boehme.laura@mh-hannover.de

Academic Education

10/2022 – 01/2026
M.Sc. in Applied Statistics, Georg-August University of Göttingen
Master’s Thesis Title: Decadal Weather Trends and Their Influence on West Nile Virus-Mosquito Occurrence and Public Health in Northern Italy: A Distributed Lag Non-Linear Modeling Approach (in collaboration with the Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)

09/2025 – 11/2025
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Research stay as part of the master’s thesis

08/2023 – 01/2024
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, study abroad as part of the master’s program

10/2019 – 09/2022
B.Sc. in Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin
Bachelor’s Thesis Title: Influence of lipid metabolism on the occurrence of cardiovascular events and mortality in stroke patients depending on statin treatment or impaired renal function (in collaboration with the Center for Stroke Research, Charité Berlin)

Professional Career

since 04/2026
Research Assistant
Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine, and Health Systems Research, Hannover Medical School

03/2025 – 02/2026
Research Assistant
University Medical Center Göttingen, Institute for Medical Statistics and Statistical Consulting

04/2023 – 02/2025
Student Assistant
Georg-August University of Göttingen, Chair of Spatial Data Analysis and Statistical Learning Methods

10/2021 – 09/2022
Student Assistant
Charité Berlin, Data Analysis of Clinical Trials at the Center for Stroke Research

08/2021 – 10/2021
Intern
DKFZ Heidelberg, Department of Applied Bioinformatics

Project

ROKAVI - Risk Prediction in Oncology: Development of an AI Algorithm, Insured Preferences, and Ethical Implications

Abstract / Poster

Böhme L, Schulz M, Mathes T (2025). A Practical Approach to Validating Risk Prediction Models and Navigating Challenges - Initial Insights from Analyzing German Transplant Registry Data. Poster presentation at the Statistics Conference, DagStat 2025, Berlin, March 24–28, 2025.