Students and committed young professionals in the health sciences are brought together in the Student Section to work together on topics relevant to public health.
The department is composed of members from various public health locations throughout Germany and has a wide range of interests and professional backgrounds.
As an interdisciplinary subject, it is explicitly aimed not only at students of health sciences, but at anyone who wants to work to improve public health.
Our goal
We connect public health students across Germany in an interdisciplinary and committed way. Our goal is to create spaces for exchange, participation, new ideas, and personal development.
This means:
- Exchange and cooperation on topics that concern us as young public health professionals.
- Representing the interests of students in the field of public health.
- Encouraging and inspiring career paths in public health.
- Promoting interdisciplinary cooperation—within the DGPH and beyond
- Organizing workshops, forums, and events
- Creating an open, supportive community—even beyond university studies
- Goals of the department
To achieve these goals:
- we are involved in many public health-related locations,
- we network regularly digitally (in biweekly meetings) and in person (through face-to-face meetings),
- we work in thematic working groups,
- we plan and organize joint projects and events,
- we use modern tools and communication channels (e.g., Slack and Instagram), and we cooperate with other departments, networks, and associations.
Activities
- Armut & Gesundheit Congress: We contribute student perspectives—we organize and conduct the student poster presentation at the congress. In the past, we also participated in the “Healthy Studying” expert forum by moderating and contributing to the topic of student health.
- Career paths in public health: Our digital event series offers insights into professional careers and exchanges with experts from various fields – designed and organized by us students.
- Campus News: Our monthly newsletter provides information about current projects, dates, and opportunities to get involved. It gives insights into our work.
- Workshops, conferences & collaborations: We help organize sessions at specialist events, organize our own workshops/events, and work with other departments of the professional association as well as external networks on exciting topics.
- Social media: We are active on Instagram – follow us for insights into our work and upcoming events!
Join us!
The Student Department welcomes anyone who is interested in public health and health sciences and would like to shape the future together with us.
If you would like to exchange ideas, help shape projects, or contribute new ideas, please write to us at studierende@dgph.info.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Until then,
Your DGPH Student Department
Spokepersons of the workgroup
Janina Ehe (B.A. Public Health) - left
Master's student in Public Health - Healthcare, Economics, and Management (M.A.)
University of Bremen
studierende@dgph.info
Larissa Nees (B.Sc. Health Promotion) - right
Master's student in Public Health (M.Sc.)
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
studierende@dgph.info