Our 1,111th follower is Dr. PH Saskia Müllmann. Thank you, Saskia, and all followers for your interest in the U Bremen Research Alliance.
We're taking this delightful milestone as an opportunity to start our
☕ UBRA Coffee Break Interview ☕ series - with Saskia.
The research hub Bremen is diverse and interconnected across UBRA institutions in an interdisciplinary way. Saskia is one of approximately 6,500 employees working at UBRA member institutions. She is a PostDoc at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, one of UBRA's 13 member institutions.
1. Saskia, what is your field of research, and what are you currently working on?
In my research, I investigate inequalities in access to and use of digital health technologies and develop strategies to reduce these inequalities, aiming to achieve equitable healthcare for all. Over the past two years, I have conducted a mixed-methods study with colleagues on digital health literacy and the use of digital health technologies among adults with low reading and writing skills. The findings of this study are now being incorporated into developing an intervention to promote digital health literacy for adults with low reading and writing skills.
2) Do you conduct interdisciplinary research? If yes, in what way?
Yes, I work within the Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen, an interdisciplinary research network that includes scientists from Leibniz-Institut für Präventionsforschung und Epidemiologie – BIPS, Universität Bremen, Fraunhofer MEVIS, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, and OFFIS - Institut für Informatik. The disciplines represented include Public Health, Epidemiology, Sociology, Psychology, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Philosophy, and Law, among others. For instance, with colleagues from the University of Bremen, I co-developed DigiPHrame, a framework for developing and evaluating digital public health interventions (doi: 10.2196/54269, https://lnkd.in/eDz68ZGs). An interdisciplinary research team created the framework comprising 182 questions organized into 12 domains. It is designed to serve as a checklist to support digital public health interventions’ development and evaluation process.
3) Why have you stayed in/come to Bremen?
I studied Health Sciences at the University of Bremen and have worked as a researcher at the Leibniz Institute BIPS for several years. In addition to the excellent research opportunities in Public Health offered by the many research institutions here, I appreciate that Bremen is a big city with a small-town feel. Distances are short, and many things can be done by bike.