Annual meetings

We are conducting annual symposiums to establish a platform for exchanging the latest scientific findings and their application in practical population medicine, thus strengthening scientific and medical work in public health authorities.

For this, we bring together leading experts from academia and practice to discuss innovative research results and concrete approaches for improving public health and population medicine. The aim is to identify needs and necessities in individual and population medicine as well as public health policy and practice.

Our annual meetings are held at the Public Health Authority, Breite Gasse 28, 60313 Frankfurt am Main.

2025

Topic:  Preparations in population medicine for the crisis: What we know and what needs to be done

We discuss what needs to be done in individual and population medicine by 2025 to be adequately prepared for a future crisis. This includes discussing the impact of a large number of injured soldiers and refugees on the healthcare system and public health in Germany.

2024

Topic: Using knowledge. Evidence-based results of population medicine research in practice for practice 

Population medicine is an interdisciplinary field encompassing both theory and practice, addressing the health of populations and plays a crucial role in developing effective health strategies and interventions. A particular focus of this symposium is the implementation of evidence-based measures.

Our interdisciplinary exchange provides new impetus for the development of population medicine and make a lasting contribution to public health.

2023  ( Public Health Service – guarantor of evidence-based population medicine in Germany 

Topic: Public health authorities (PHA) in Germany fulfills numerous functions to protect and promote population health. However, the German Advisory Council on the Assessment of Developments in the Healthcare System notes, that research is weakly integrated into PHA. This is due, to the lack of a scientific medical society that could provide relevant expertise and facilitate the necessary exchange within the field of public health and population medicine. Similarly, there is a lack of empirically based and application-oriented coordination within the predominantly decentralized structure of PHAs.

The absence of a scientific medical society, as well as the generally limited scientific evidence, is considered responsible for the scarcity of uniform guidelines within population medicine that provide practitioners in PHA with recommendations for action in population health matters. This leads to heterogeneous, often non-evidence-based task within the PHAs and hinders the necessary quality assurance. Furthermore, future-oriented research in public health and population medicine in Germany requires a data-driven reorientation in order to derive empirically sound, targeted measures.