PD Dr. Jelena Epping

Head of the Department of Medical Sociology

PD Dr. Public Health, Dipl. Social Science,

Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration

 

Phone: (0511) 532 - 9389

Fax: (0511) 532 - 4214

epping.jelena@mh-hannover.de

 

Qualifications

  • 1998 Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration(Stockholm School of Economics in Riga)
  • 2008 Diploma in Social Sciences (Leibniz University Hannover with focus on empirical social research and work and organizational psychology)
  • 2018 Doctorate in Public Health (with "summa cum laude") on the topic "Social gradient in psychotherapy? Secondary data analysis of the utilization of psychotherapeutic treatments subject to application with data from the AOK Lower Saxony"
  • 2023 Habilitation in medical sociology (topic: The utilization of health insurance data for public health research)

Professional career

  • 2008 - 2011 - Leibniz University Hannover - Lecturer in statistics and methods of empirical social research as well as in the module key competencies
  • 2011 - 2023 - Hannover Medical School - Lecturer in medical sociology and research assistant in research projects "Evaluation of mother-child cures", "Morbidity compression and its alternatives", "OnCoVID - Management in oncology", "How long can we work? The development of working life from a health perspective"
  • 2019 - 2024 Deputy Head of the Department of Medical Sociology
  • since February 2023 Project manager of the DFG-funded research project "Occurrence of mental illness in existing type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease: Health inequalities and identification of vulnerable groups in health insurance data in the time trend between 2005 and 2019" (PsyDiaKHK)
  • Head of the Research and Teaching Unit Medical Sociology since May 2024

 

Main areas of work

  • Utilization of billing data from statutory health insurance companies for public health research
  • Secondary data analysis, evaluation of very large data sets
  • Social inequalities in the utilization of health services
  • Didactics of empirical social research methods
  • Data preparation for very large data sets

 

Funding and further training

 

Teaching

  • Model study program Medicine: Psychological and sociological foundations of medicine (2nd year)
  • Model study program Medicine: Small groups as part of the propaedeuticum (1st year of study)
  • Master's program Public Health: Methods of empirical social research in practical application and SPSS exercises

 

Memberships