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Falko Sniehotta 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇵🇹
@fsniehotta.bsky.social
Professor of Public Health, Social & Preventive Medicine
Heidelberg University (CPD)
https://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/medical-faculty-mannheim/public-health
Director NIHR Policy Research Unit Behavioural & Social Science @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social
Here we explore the new German government’s plans for disease prevention
We make the case for a strategic shift towards prevention and highlight how the government can seize this opportunity to strengthen population health
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@marikeandreas.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Wir entwickeln eine adaptive/kontextsensitive Echtzeitkohorte mit der wir zeitnah Populationsdaten darüber sammeln können, wie die Bevölkerung auf Krisen und Gesundheitsrisiken reagiert
Hier beschreiben wir die Idee & unter welchen Umständen Leute teilnehmen würden
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 31, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Schöne Sonntagslektüre aus der Sektion Wissen in der Süddeutschen mit Elementen aus einem Interview mit @veraaraujosoares.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Unser fantastischer Kollege Prof. Robert Finger ist der erste Klinikdirektor in Mannheim, der seine Antrittsvorlesung der Prävention widmet.
Prävention ist an dieser Fakultät zuhause.
December 6, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Gemeinsam mit der Ministerin für Wissenschaft, Forschung Kunst BW Petra Olschowski, unseren Kolleg*innen aus dem Kompetenznetzwerk Präventivmedizin BW, unseren Partnern und Menschen aus Mannheim haben wir über die Zukunft der Prävention im Länd diskutiert
Danke an alle!
www.umm.de/medien/press...
December 6, 2024 at 11:03 AM
December 4, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Unser Ministerpräsident Winfried Kretschmann eröffnet die Jahrestagung des Forums Gesundheitsstandort BW selbst. Die Ministerin Petra Olschowski vom MWK und die Staatssekretäre der Ministerien für Wirtschaft und für Soziales sind auch dabei. Gesundheit ist Priorität im Länd Baden-Württemberg 👍
December 4, 2024 at 9:31 AM
New paper in #HealthPolicy: It appears that the German public is far more willing to accept nutrition policies to protect population health and improve the sustainability of food systems than reflected in German policy
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 4, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Deutschlands enttäuschende Lebenserwartung und die Gründe dafür.
Mein Interview zum Samstag in der RheinPlalz mit Daniel Krauser
November 30, 2024 at 8:40 AM
In our new #OpenAccess paper we look into the process of integrating #VirtualWards within the NHS in England as a new way of delivering care to patients who would otherwise be hospitalized from the perspective of ICS commissioners.

www.jmir.org/2024/1/e56494/

@nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 5:35 AM
Falsifcation of home rapid antigen lateral fow tests during the COVID‑19 pandemic

What do we know about prevalence, reasons and correlates?

Our @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social work from the UK attemps some answers

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 25, 2024 at 3:29 PM
The new seats for the mobile research unit. UN Sustainable Development Goals in four languages each
November 21, 2024 at 3:16 PM
The XPAND trial shows that a personalised intervention reduced UVR dose-to-face in XP patients & was cost-effective doi.org/10.1093/bjd/...

XP is a very rare condition requiring N-of-1 methods for intervention development
psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-...

Br J Derm commentary doi.org/10.1093/bjd/...
November 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Our recent work with Directors of Public Health shows how important the expertise of local public health was in reaching disadvantaged populations to offer Covid-19 vaccinations.
Strong decentralised public health infastructure is a critical resilliance factor
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 19, 2024 at 7:30 AM
PRU practical guide to writing policy briefs has been downloaded 10.000 x from #OpenScienceFramework
osf.io/preprints/os...
It makes it easy to communicate relevant evidence to policy decision makers
jointly developed by
@nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social & @ucl-cbc.bsky.social

@susanmichie.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Geert Crombez and I are editors of #HealthPsychologyReview, the leading review journal in #HealthPsychology
HPR publishes empirical reviews & theoretical/conceptual work advancing evidence, science & practice
Happy to answer questions about scope, submissions etc
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rhp...
November 14, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Our new mobile research unit has arrived
A transformed E-Van with solar panels. Allows us to bring research to people, places & geographies
Interior can be transformed into medical, sociological and psychological research labs.
Also important: it has a quality coffee maker on board ☕️
#PublicHealth
November 13, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Vera Araujo-Soares @veraaraujosoares.bsky.social is presenting a keynote at the Behaviour Change for Health & Sustainability Conference 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... #BCConf2025
She will discuss the health of the planet and its link to population health
www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/medical-facu...
November 12, 2024 at 1:25 PM
New in Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol this study shows that after 5y, participants in the intervention group who continued low-intensity weight loss maintenance support had a bodyweight 6·1 kg below baseline & showed wider metabolic benefits. Some remained in remission.
www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/La...
February 24, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Bislang leider nur auf Deutsch
Die neue Webseite unseres Kompetenznetzwerks Präventivmedizin Baden-Württemberg: www.knpm-bw.de
February 18, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Falsification behaviours in the context of home rapid antigen lateral flow tests during the COVID-19 pandemic in England were prevalent.
Indirect questioning techniques can provide more realistic data about compliance with behavioural public health regulations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 12, 2024 at 11:59 AM