Fall Symposium 2025 (UKE, HAW, TUHH)

“Health-related areas of tension in the Hamburg metropolitan region – perspectives from neighborhoods and urban regions”, 18 November 2025.

Organizers: Jobst Augustin (Universitätskrankenhaus Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE), Susanne Busch (Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, HAW), Carsten Gertz (Technische Universität Hamburg, TU-HH).

The aim of the event was to provide insights into interdisciplinary research projects on urban and regional health. The focus was on the “Healthy Neighborhoods 2.0” project, with a discussion of initial findings on the development of socially-oriented approaches to prevention and health promotion, and the “GeSGo – Integration of Health into Urban and Transport Planning: New Governance Structures in Urban-Regional Transport Corridors”; the latter is a research project on the integration of health into Hamburg’s transport and urban planning. The event was also intended to contribute to the networking of relevant projects. In addition to short presentations of other regional health-related projects, funded junior research groups in the context of urban health will be introduced.

Event announcement: www.haw-hamburg.de/ccg/veranstaltungen/herbstsymposium/

Program flyer, www.haw-hamburg.de/fileadmin/CCG/PDF/Programmflyer_Online.pdf

 

Program items (abridged):

  • Small-scale analyses for the needs-based design of prevention services in socially disadvantaged population groups – Healthy Neighborhoods 2.0 (S. Busch, J. Pohlan, E. Swart, S. Wöhle, D. Behde, L. Corinth, L. Jenner-Nissen, D. Kubat, J. Popp, L. Völtzer, J. von Eitzen); 3 presentations on this topic
  • Integration of health into urban and transport planning – New governance structures in urban-regional transport corridors (GeSGo) (Jufo participants: J. Augustin, S. Busch, C. Gertz, M. Helmrich, L. Jenner-Nissen, K. Schulze, L. Völzer); on this topic: project presentation (including film), 2 presentations, outlook (moderator: C. Gertz)
  • Networking meeting in Hamburg (moderator: S. Busch), with the following contributions:
    • Small-scale analyses of health and social data from the Hamburg Social Authority (A.C. Krefis)
    • Health impact assessment in urban development_Plus (B. Tolg, T. Adami)
    • The Community Health Laboratory Veddel – a permanent research site for health-related research in and with a marginalized neighborhood (S. Betscher)
    • Movement in Hamburg / Active City (N. Schumacher)
    • Well-being in Hamburg (A. Adedej)
  • JuFo network meeting [+ discussion paper] (moderator: L. Hausmann), with the following contributions:
    • Corona and the psyche (COPSY), Hamburg (A. Kaman, F. Reiß)
    • Community Mental Health: City Centers as Therapeutic Landscapes (UCoMH), Bochum (A. Mikhof)
    • Aging society and urbanization: Salutogenic urban landscapes in (window) view (AgeSAlus), Hamburg (L. Ascone-Michelis)
    • Nature and health – scientific model project on urban nature, Berlin (M. Jeitler)
    • Sectoral bridge building, Bielefeld (T. McCall)
    • Healthy Places Index (GO-IX) – A WebGIS tool for planning healthy living spaces and promoting public health, Erfurt/Dresden (S. Völker, K. Janson)
    • City of the Future / Urban Community Health – Impulses (Foundation Advisory Board) [Impulse paper presented by Heike Köckler, Rainer Fehr]
  • Outlook (J. Augustin, S. Busch, C. Gertz).

 

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