Research cluster 2: "Demand-driven public health technology"
While digital public health fundamentally enables new ways to deliver customized prevention and health promotion content to diverse populations, comprehensive evaluations of digital public health programs are still rare and appropriate evaluation paradigms have yet to be developed. There is a need for in-depth research and systematic, conceptual work through interdisciplinary scientific approaches. The Leibniz ScienceCampus Bremen Digital Public Health (LSC DiPH) aims to advance interdisciplinary research in the tense and fast-moving scientific and societal environment of digital public health.
In Research Cluster 2 (WP2) "Need-based Public Health Technology", we will focus on understanding how technologies can support individual and community health needs. Within WP2, we will focus on three main aspects.
Research in this area will combine formative research with conceptual work on digital innovation to identify implicit needs beyond the conscious realm of individual and community users, as well as public health stakeholders.
Experts include Rainer Malaka (Sprecher RC2) Wolfang Ahrens, Ingrid Darmann-Finck, Ulrike Haug, Lucia Reisch, Heinz Rothgang, Tanja Schultz, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Stefan Rach, Antje Hebestreit, Max Westphal (MEVIS), Horst Hahn (MEVIS) and Hajo Zeeb.
- First, after identifying and describing individual and community health needs, we design, develop, and evaluate novel interfaces for individuals and communities to provide data to digital public health programs and specialists.
- We are also exploring novel automated approaches to detect positive and negative impacts of both physical and virtual environments on public health.
- This will allow us, in a third step, to provide novel personalized prevention and health promotion interventions for different populations.
Research in this area will combine formative research with conceptual work on digital innovation to identify implicit needs beyond the conscious realm of individual and community users, as well as public health stakeholders.
Experts include Rainer Malaka (Sprecher RC2) Wolfang Ahrens, Ingrid Darmann-Finck, Ulrike Haug, Lucia Reisch, Heinz Rothgang, Tanja Schultz, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Stefan Rach, Antje Hebestreit, Max Westphal (MEVIS), Horst Hahn (MEVIS) and Hajo Zeeb.