Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
D-53113 Bonn
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Project Coordination PreTAD
Project Virtual Brain Twin
(currently on maternal leave)
Annika Baumeister studied Health Economics at the University of Cologne. She went on to complete her doctorate in the Interdisciplinary Program Health Sciences (IPHS) at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne, with her research focusing on 'Health Literacy in the Context of Migration: Analysis of Determinants and Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Health Literacy in Migrants'. Prior to commencing her academic career, she worked as a nurse in the field of inpatient healthcare.
Since October 2022, she has been engaged as a coordinator and research associate in the project ‘The Predictive Turn in Alzheimer's Disease: Ethical, Clinical, Linguistic and Legal Aspects (PreTAD)’. Since January 2024, she has also been a research associate in the project ‘Virtual Brain Twin for Personalised Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders’, which is funded by the European Commission.
Her research interests include the investigation of determinants of health literacy in different contexts and interventions to promote health literacy, digitalisation and technologisation in health care, as well as predictive medicine and related health science issues.
2018–2024
PhD Health Sciences – 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
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
Winter term 2020/2021 and Summer term 2020
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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