Leonard Oppermann

research associate

Research focus on patient orientation and health education

Telephone: 0511 532 4452

Mail: Oppermann.Leonard@mh-hannover.de

 

Professional career

Since 01/2021

Research assistant at the Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research at Hannover Medical School

04/2019 until 03/2020

Student assistant in the project FoLL - Research-oriented teaching and learning in university didactics at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

12/2018 until 03/2020

Student assistant in the Department of Sport and Health Sociology at the Institute of Sport Sciences at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

02/2018 until 07/2018

Internship in occupational health management at the University Medical Center Göttingen

11/2016 until 10/2018

Student assistant in the project Healthy Campus - Health Promotion for Students at the University Sports Center of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

 

Academic education

Since 04/2020

Scholarship holder at the Hannover Medical School in the ChEG doctoral program

2017 until 2020

Master of Arts in Sports Science with a focus on prevention, rehabilitation and psychosocial health at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

2014 to 2018

Bachelor of Arts in Sports Science and Ethnology at the University of Göttingen

 

Projects

  • Patient University
  • Strengthening health literacy in the workplace

 

Publications

Fischbock N, Oppermann L, Lander J, Seidel G, Walter U (2025). Health literacy as a building block of prevention and health promotion: An introduction for nursing education. Nursing Education 2/2025, pp. 2-7.

Oppermann L & Dierks ML (2025). Promotion of exercise-related health literacy through digital workplace-based health promotion - Results of a pilot project. German Journal of Sports Medicine 76(3).

Oppermann L and Dierks M-L (2025). Promotion of physical activity-related health competence using digital workplace-based health promotion: a pilot study for office workers. Front. Public Health 13:1437172. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1437172

Carl J, Zheng M, Popp J, Eckert K, Geidl W, Blaschke S, Schmid J, Grüne E, Oppermann L, Liphardt A-M, Morf H, Weissenfels A, Pfeifer K (2024). Competencies for health-enhancing physical activity are associated with body mass: results of an updated data pooling across 18 samples. Obesity (Silver Spring), 2024;1-14. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.24121

Oppermann L, Dierks ML (2024). Perspectives of participants in a pilot program to promote physical activity-related health literacy in the workplace. Health - together. Cooperation conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS) and the German Society for Public Health (DGPH). Dresden, 08-13.09.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. docAbstr. 25. doi: 10.3205/24gmds291

Oppermann L, Posselt J, Seidel G, Dierks M-L (2024). Promotion of exercise-related health literacy in the workplace - qualitative evaluation of a pilot program. Prev Gesundheitsf doi.org/10.1007/s11553-024-01133-z

Oppermann L, Bornemann A, Martinović G, Seidel G, Dierks M-L (2023). Reach of health information via YouTube using the example of the digital patient university of Hannover Medical School. Healthcare 2023; 85(08/09): 818 - 819. doi:10.1055/s-0043-1770633

Oppermann L, Dierks M (2023). First results of the development of an intervention to increase physical activity-related health literacy in office workers. Managing performance. Strengthen health. Promoting development. Abstract volume of the 26th dvs University Conference, Bochum, September 20-22, 2023. p. 323. Hamburg: Feldhaus.

Oppermann L, Dierks M (2023). Promoting physical activity-related health literacy through digital workplace-based health promotion. Healthcare 2023; 85(08/09): 821 - 821. doi:10.1055/s-0043-1770643

Oppermann L, Dierks M-L (2023). Promotion of physical activity-related health competence using digital workplace-based health promotion: protocol for a controlled before-and-after study. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2023;9:e001464. doi:10.1136/ bmjsem-2022-001464

Oppermann L (2022). Similarities and differences between health literacy and exercise-related health literacy - comparison using a practical example. Public Health 2022; 84: 852 DOI 10.1055/s-0042-1753951

Posselt J, Ahrens S, Oppermann L, Naef AN (2022). Interdisciplinary health literacy research. the perspective of early career researchers. Findings from the ChEG Summer School. In: Qualitas 22(4), pp. 34-36.