Welcome to the webpage of the Division of Epidemiology and Biometry (EuB) within the Faculty of Medicine.

News

We're getting bigger:

• Since August 1^st, Ms. Kolsoum Ali-Rezaee works with us. She is a health scientiest working on our qualification position as well as filling in for Ms. Neuser during her parental leave. For now, she is working on our systematic review/meta-regression on psychological interventions for chronic inflammatory bowel diseases. 
• Starting on October 1^st, a new epidemiologist will join our team and also take on consulting tasks. More on this shortly.
• Currently, a permanent position in our consulting team (BAMBIE) is being advertised as 50% E13. We're envisioning a service-oriented person with experience in the biometric support of clinical studies who enjoys the work with clinical junior scientists and teaching medical students. If desired and with sufficient qualifications, the position can be combined with a long-term position (25% E11, Data management/programming) as well as conceivably with for example non-steady funds for biometrical tasks in the KKS. Excellent German and English skills are essential.

News from our projects involving human participants:

• There are currently no ongoing surveys. All projects with participants (ISS, MIDDEL) are concluded and mostly published. Thank you to all patients, nursing home residents, care-givers, nurses and doctors that participated!
• Still in its follow-up phase is the project ISS, which is currently being worked on by our intern Manuella Fofack i.a. next to Ms. Neuser. 

Team Consulting

• Mr. Gera is in charge of the biometric consulting on clinical studies/in the KKS. For respective enquiries, please use the BeKS-Portal. 
• Mr. de Sordi is in charge of the consulting for junior scientists, whose respective position has been increased to 50%.

Doctoral theses and student enquiries

• Currently, we advertise a medical PhD-position (subject area „Epidemiology and literature”) as well as a student thesis from the field of mathematics/statistics/epidemiology/pedagogy/psychology (subject area „conveying of methodical competences”). More on this shortly. Please contact us, if you are interested.
• Students of medicine, epidemiology, public health, biometrics and mathematics are welcome to apply for internships or student assistant work. However, we are currently only able to supervise / employ people with a good command of German and English.  
• On the other hand, we ask biomedical students not to submit any requests for internships or theses unless they have a solid grounding in statistical programming, medicine and epidemiology/biometrics.

Clinical Epidemiology: A Daydream?

    "To the pure clinician, the clinical research published in general medical journals is no longer really understandable, because the design and the analyses have become too complicated. To the pure methodologist, it may not be evident how particular findings fit with background clinical and basic science knowledge. .....If we want to preserve and reinforce proper judgements about the theory and practice of medicine—including the use of ‘big data’ and the use of ‘personalised medicine’—we need people with both types of knowledge in one head"

Vandenbroucke 2017

"Zwei Dinge sind zu unserer Arbeit nötig: Unermüdliche Ausdauer und die Bereitschaft, etwas, in das man viel Zeit und Arbeit gesteckt hat, wieder wegzuwerfen"

Albert Einstein.