Fields of Teaching and Research
- Health Promotion and prevention:
- Health literacy
- Diet- and physical activity-related prevention for socially disadvantaged children and adolescents
- participatory development of organizational development concepts for child care centers
Courses
- Community based health promotion
- Health counselling and education
- Intervention mapping
- Dietetics
University Activities
- Head of the Institute for Applied Health Sciences (IaG)
- Speaker of the research focus health promotion
Professional Memberships
- Member of the European Public Health Association - EUPHA
- Member of the German Public Health Association - DGPH
- Member of the editorial advisory board of nutrition of the aid infodienst, an information service covering the areas of consumer protection, food and agriculture
Curriculum Vitae
- since 2011: Head of the Institute for Applied Health Sciences (IaG) at Coburg University of applied sciences and arts
- since 2009: Professor at the Department of Social Work and Health at Coburg University of applied sciences and arts
- 2005 - 2009: Head of the Public Health and nutrition research unit at the University of Bremen, central scientific unit the Bremen Institute for Research on Prevention and Social Medicine (BIPS)
- 1996 - 2005: Senior Consultant in the fields of the healthcare sector, EFQM, Organizational development - mediKUR, Agentur für Gesundheits- und Kurtechnologie, Pro-Gesundheit an GQV Quality Consulting GmbH
- 1996: Doctorate degree in Educational Sciences
