Digital Public Health - Leibniz ScienceCampus Bremen

‘Digitalisation permeates every aspect of life and will transform public health’. Such phrases are ubiquitous and underline the key challenge in digital public health: the use of digital technology is driven by technical opportunities rather than by demands. While this can lead to useful applications, it can also lead to technologies that fail to realize the key objectives of evidence-based public health and pose novel ethical, sociocultural and equity-related challenges.

The Leibniz ScienceCampus "Digital Public Health" aims to develop a much-needed public health perspective on these challenges. Its activities focus on three key outcomes: a systematic framework to integrate digital technology into public health, guidance on developing digital technology for public health problems as well as the scope and methods for the systematic evaluation of digital technology in public health. After our first phase, in which we focused on researching concepts and applications of digital public health, we are now entering a new chapter: in the second phase, we will focus on putting our findings into practice. We are also continuing our successful Early Career Researcher Academy.