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Germany's national public health gets reorganized: A new institute shall take center stage

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  • Savaskan, Nicolai
  • Lampl, Benedikt M.J.
  • Yavuz, Mesut
  • Tinnemann, Peter

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In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government recently orchestrated a fundamental change to its public health infrastructure. This reconstruction centers around the founding of a National Institute for Prevention and Education in Medicine (Bundesinstitut für Prävention und Aufklärung in der Medizin, BIPAM) at the cost of two federal institutions, the Robert Koch-Institute (RKI) and the Federal Center for Health Education (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung, BzGA). Thus, the Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit, BMG) plans to dissolve the BzGA and integrate its personnel into the future BIPAM. Further, all RKI research and surveillance activities related to non-communicable diseases, including AI methods development will be transferred into the BIPAM. The RKI responsibilities will solely focus on infectious diseases. According to announced plans of the BMG the primary objective for establishing the BIPAM is to address non-communicable diseases and enhance overall population health. However, the medical specialist training for public health remains non-academic at a state institution. Simultaneously the BMG already replaced two thirds of experts of the permanent commission on vaccination (Ständige Impfkommission, STIKO) and determined new procedures for appointing future expert commissioners. With these changes, Germany embarks on an extraordinary reshuffling of its national public health organizations and responsibilities, by fundamentally separating all issues around non-communicable diseases from those of infectious diseases. Germany's unraveled research tasks of public health authorities however remains unmet. Thus, 2024 marks a pivotal caesura for public health in the modern history of Germany.

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  • Savaskan, Nicolai & Lampl, Benedikt M.J. & Yavuz, Mesut & Tinnemann, Peter, 2024. "Germany's national public health gets reorganized: A new institute shall take center stage," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 145(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:hepoli:v:145:y:2024:i:c:s0168851024000940
    DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2024.105084
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