Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
D-53113 Bonn
Project Coordination PreTAD
(currently on maternal leave)
Annika Baumeister, M. Sc., is a research associate at the Center for Life Ethics and studied health economics at the University of Cologne. Prior to her studies, she worked as a registered nurse at the Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH and gained practical experience in inpatient health care. Since October 2022, she has been coordinator and research associate in the trinational project "The Predictive Turn in Alzheimer's disease: Ethical, clinical, linguistic and legal aspects of the paradigm shift to predictive medicine (PreTAD)".
Her research focuses on the examination of health literacy determinants in different contexts, the effectiveness of interventions for improving health literacy as well as predictive medicine in the scope of Alzheimer’s dementia.
She is doing her PhD studies at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne in the Interdisciplinary Program Health Sciences (IPHS) on the topic of "Health literacy in the context of migration: analysis of determinants and effectiveness of interventions to improve health literacy in migrants".
Since 07/2017
P.h.D. studies, Interdisciplinary Program of Health Sciences (IPHS), University of Cologne
2014–2017
Master of Science Health Economics, University of Cologne
2011–2014
Bachelor of Science Health Economics, University of Cologne
2006–2009
Exam Nursing, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH
Since 10/2023
Research Associate Center for Life Ethics/Hertz Chair TRA 4, University of Bonn
European EraNet Neuron-Project: The Predictive Turn in Alzheimer's disease: Ethical, clinical, linguistic and legal aspects of the paradigm shift to predictive medicine (PreTAD)
2020–2022
Research Associate ceres (Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health), University of Cologne
BMBF-Project: Gender-specific health literacy of individuals with a migration background (GLIM), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2017–2020
Research Associate Ethics Research Unit, University Hospital Cologne
BMBF-Project: Systems medicine and health literacy in the context of mental disorders (SysKomp), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2015–2017 Research Assistant Research Unit Ethics, University Hospital Cologne
BMBF-Project: Systems medicine and health literacy in the context of mental disorders (SysKomp)
2015–2016
Research Assistant Vice Dean's Office for Gender and Academic Development, University of Cologne
Project: International conference "Gender-specific health literacy - a future concept for public health?
2009–2011
Nurse in Internal Medicine/Nephrology, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH
Summer term 2020 and Winter term 2020/2021
Elective block History and Ethics of Medicine "Facets of Health Literacy in a Diverse Society”, University of Cologne
Winter term 2018/2019
CERES Lecture series "Healthier than ever? Facets of health in modern society", University of Cologne
Summer term 2018
Elective block History and Ethics of Medicine "Dying and Letting Die", University of Cologne
Cochrane Collaboration
German Network Health Literacy e.V.
Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART)
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