20th anniversary of the Institute for Community Medicine
24.05.2023 19:03
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Institute for Community Medicine (ICM), over 300 guests from research, healthcare and health policy came to Greifswald on May 4th. Bettina Martin, Minister for Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs, emphasized in her welcoming speech the importance of the institute's research work for the population of the region and beyond.
The rector of the university, Prof. Katharina Riedel, and the dean of the Greifswald University Medicine (UMG), Prof. Karlhans Weiter, pointed out the special feature of community medicine at the Greifswald location for both the university and the university medicine.
Prof. Wolfgang Hoffmann, Managing Director of the Institute for Community Medicine and Head of the Health Care Epidemiology and Community Health Department, thanked the Minister and Mayor Dr. Stefan Fassbinder for his support in implementing the ICM's planned new research building, the William B. Kannel Center, half of which is funded by the federal and state governments. It is scheduled to be ready for occupancy by 2026 and will bring together all of the institute's departments as well as the examination centers that are currently carrying out their work at different locations.
“We are pleased with what we have achieved and are grateful for the critical accompaniment and great support as well as for many fruitful and pleasant collaborations,” says Prof. Hoffmann.
The ICM symposium featured exciting lectures on, among other things, evidence-based science communication and health care research in the future European data space.
But community medicine is, above all, science for and with the population. In a discussion group, committed citizens of Greifswald discussed what science can do for the population and how the population can get involved in research.