Projects and Awards

Healthcare provision planning is gaining importance as a means to combat a lack of general practitioners, particularly in more rural areas. In their study “Versorgungsgradprognosen als Baustein einer evidenzbasierten Versorgungsplanung“ (engl. „ Care supply projections as a building block of evidence-based health services planning”), Prof. Dr. Stephan L. Thomsen, Kai Ingwersen and Insa Weilage aim to predict the demand for contract GPs in Lower Saxony until 2035. The original article was first published in 2021 in the journal “Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen“. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zefq.2021.02.002

This outstanding research was awarded the annual research prize “Regionalisierte Versorgungsforschung” (engl. Regional Health Services Research) by the Central Research Institute of Ambulatory Health Care in Germany (ZI – Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche Versorgung). Congratulations!

Compare www.cherh.de for projects by Herr, Reichert, Schulenburg and Zeidler and the websites of the other members of the faculty

• “CLOSED – Treatment patterns of patients with high-frequency use of inpatient psychiatric settings in Lower Saxony”
  Funded by Innovationsfond, 2026-2028 (Zeidler)
  https://innovationsfonds.g-ba.de/projekte/closed.785
• “AnDem-RoSe – Resource realization and self-help for family caregivers of patients with dementia”
  Funded by Innovationsfond, 2025-2029 (Zeidler)
  https://innovationsfonds.g-ba.de/projekte/andem-rose.725
• „Ärztebedarf in Niedersachsen 2040: Modellrechnungen zur Sicherstellung einer flächendeckenden vertragsärztlichen Versorgung im Gebiet der Kassenärztlichen Vereinigung Niedersachsen [Projecting Physician Workforce Demand in Lower Saxony to 2040: Model-Based Estimates for Ensuring Comprehensive Ambulatory Care in the Region of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians of Lower Saxony]“, Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Niedersachsen (KVN) Hannover, 2025-2026 (Thomsen).
• “DZL – Effects of influenza, pneumococcal and herpes zoster vaccines on asthma and COPD in Germany”
  Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, 2024 – 2027 (Herr, Zeidler)
  https://dzl.de/
• “Home BASE – Needs-based and multi-professional treatment of severe mental illnesses in children and adolescents”
  Funded by Innovationsfond, 2023-2027 (Zeidler)
  https://innovationsfonds.g-ba.de/projekte/home-base.572
• „GARDA – Health economic analysis of the burden of informal caregivers“ 
  Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space/The Federal Joint Committee (G-BA), 2023-2026 (Herr, Zeidler)
  https://www.cherh.de/fileadmin/cherh/Projektbeschreibungen/GARDA.pdf
• “Gender inequality, child labor and schooling: Evidence on policies to mitigate the impact of economic shocks”
  Funded by the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 2023-2026 (Reichert)
  https://www.idos-research.de/en/research/description/details/gender-inequality-child-labor-and-schooling-evidence-on-social-policies-to-mitigate-the-impact-of-economic-shocks/
• „The effect of telemedicine provision on public primary health care in the Philippines (IE-Telemedicine)“ 
  Funded by 3ie, 2023-2024 (Reichert)
• „Subjective and Objective Air Quality in Servicescapes: Measurement and Consequences“, 
  Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (project no. 460276061), 2021-2024 (Walsh, Linzmajer)
• “Experimental Studies on the Link between Promotion of Creative Ideas and Gender Discrimination”,
  Funded by DFG Individual Research Grants, 2021-2024 (Schröder)
• “Ensuring quality and supply in professional long-term care”, 
  Funded by DFG Individual Research Grants, 2021-2024 (Herr, with Heger (RWI))
• “DELIVER-Care”
  Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space/The Federal Joint Committee (G-BA), 2019-2023 (Schulenburg, Zeidler)
• “Risk of Social Isolation by Contraceptive Users and New Ways of Scaling Up Family Planning Methods in Burundi”
  Funded by World Bank Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund, 2019-2022 (Reichert)
• “Studienindividualisierung durch Digitale, Datengestützte Assistenten (SIDDATA)”
  Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 2018-2022 (Breitner)
• “Zentralinsititut für Digitalisierung in Niedersachsen (ZDIN) – Zukunftslabor Energie (ZLE)”
  Funded by Volkswagen Stiftung, 2019-2024 (Breitner)
• “Transdisciplinary end-of-life analysis of wind energy plants for the development of technically-economically optimal post-use strategies (TransWind)”
  Funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), 2020-2023 (Breitner)
• “Ancillary Services for Reliable Power Grids in Times of Progressive German Energiewende and Digital Transformation (SiNED)”
  Funded by Volkswagen Stiftung, 2019-2024 (Breitner)
• “CHIMPS-NET”
  Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research/The Federal Joint Committee (G-BA), 2019-2022 (Schulenburg, Zeidler)
• “Graduate College – Graduiertenkolleg ‘Globalization and Development’”
  Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2012-2021 (Puhani)
• “Pedelec Study”
  Funded by Umweltbundesamt (UBA), 2017-2021 (Schulenburg, Zeidler)
• “Verbesserung der Gesundheitsversorgung von schwangeren Binnenvertriebenen und vertriebene Mütter mit Kindern in Nigeria“
  Funded by UK-DFID Trust Fund Building the Evidence on Protracted Forced Displacement, 2018-2020 (Reichert)
• “Demand and Competition in Long-Term Care”
  Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, CINCH, 2012-2020 (Herr)
• The German Labour Market in a Globalised World – Challenges through Trade, Technology and Demographics”
  Co-Initiator DFG Focus Program 1764
  Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2014-2020 (Puhani)