Prof. Dr. Dea Niebuhr
Health Technology Assessment and Health System Design
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building
53,
Room
129
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda
Consultation hours: By appointment by e-mail
CV
- 01/2017 to 01/2020 Head of the Doctoral Centre Public Health and spokesperson of the Centre Management of the Public Health Centre Fulda
- 10/2016 to 09/2019 Dean of the Faculty of Nursing and Health
- 04/2014 to 09 /2016 Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Nursing and Health Care
- 10/2008 Professor for "Health Technology Assessment and Health System Design" at the Faculty of Nursing and Health at Fulda University of Applied Sciences
- 03/2006 to 02/2008 Substitute professor (0.5) for the subject area of health services research and health economics at the Faculty of Nursing and Health at Fulda University of Applied Sciences
- In 2008, doctorate with magna cum laude to Dr. rer. medic. at the Medical Faculty of the University Hospital Essen of the University of Duisburg-Essen
- 05/2007 to 11/2008 Research assistant with focus on Health Technology Assessment at the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation Chair for Medical Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen
- 10/2004 to 05/2007 Self-employed as Health Policy Consultant (since 2005 also in the field of Health Technology Assessment)
- 11/2001 to 01/2004 Lecturer at the Social Pedagogical Institute (SPI), Division Specialist Schools, Qualification & Professionalisation in Berlin in the area of in-service training to become a state-certified geriatric nurse with a focus on social gerontology and living environments/social networks
- 05/2002 to 08/2003 Research assistant at the Chair of General Business Administration and Health Management under Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wasem at the University of Greifswald in a third-party funded project, supported by the Hans Böckler Foundation
- Studied economics, social policy, public law with a focus on social law and medical sociology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, graduating as Diplom-Sozialwirtin (social economist)
Teaching Areas
- Evidence-informed decision-making in public health, nursing, medicine, midwifery, physiotherapy
- Evidence-based methodology for the evaluation of medical devices
- Economic evidence
- Health Technology Assessment
- Globalisation and health
Areas of Research
- Evidence-based Public Health
- Evidence-informed climate research
- Patient-relevant benefit assessment of health products
Research Projects
Member of the Climate Change and Health WG since 2019 with research on:
- Effectiveness of heat action plans
- Critical evaluation of epidemiological studies on heat-associated morbidity and mortality (method development)
- NoWoHit: Joint project of the "German Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change" (DAS): "Surveillance of emergency contacts during heat waves in Worms". Funding: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) based on a resolution of the German Bundestag within the framework of the BMU programme "Adaptation to Climate Change" with the focus on "Municipal Lighthouse Projects". (together with Prof. Dr. Henny Annette Grewe and Prof. Dr. Katharina Rathmann)
- Heat Action Plan for the Federal State of Brandenburg on behalf of the Ministry of Social Affairs (together with Prof. Dr. Henny Annette Grewe, GreenAdapt Gesellschaft für Klimaanpassung mbH, Gesellschaft für sozio:ökonomische Forschung (GSF).
Memberships
- German Network for Evidence-Based Medicine (DNEbM)
- German Society for Health Economics (DGGOE)
- German Society for Nursing Science e.V.
Publications
You can download the list of publications by Prof. Dr. Niebuhr here
Further Functions
- Head of the Health Technology programme at the Department of Nursing and Health