RESEARCH GROUP “CLIMATE-SMART HEALTH SYSTEMS”

Griesel, Silvan Doctoral Student (Dr. med.)

Silvan Griesel is a physician and part of the research group since 2020. He is currently conducting his Dr. med. dissertation. His research project aims to provide insights into patients’ experiences of climate-sensitive health counseling."

silvan.griesel(at)uni-heidelberg.de

Krippl, Nicola Doctoral Student (Dr. med.)

Nicola Krippl is a medical student in her practical year with a broad background in the social sciences. She became interested in political communication, counselling and doctor-patient communication early on in her academic career. In addition to her studies, she has already worked in the field of communication workshops and health prevention and has undergone further training in systemic counselling. In her doctoral thesis, she combines these interests and researches how climate-sensitive health counselling can succeed. She is investigating which topics are considered acceptable by patients, how patients want to talk to their physician about the connections between climate change and health and which socio-economic characteristics have an influence on this.

krippl(at)stud.uni-heidelberg.de

Lamkemeyer, Lisa-Maria 

Lisa-Maria Lamkemeyer is a dentist, medical student (University of Cologne), research associate at the Institute of Global Health (project: PlaN-Med) and doctoral student (project: KliOL). In the project PlaN-Med, under the lead of Dr. Alina Herrmann and Dr. Till Bugaj, she works on elaborating and implementing a curriculum for planetary health within the medical education of students at the University of Heidelberg to raise awareness of reinforcing climate change-induced risks to health and well-being. For her doctoral thesis she aims to design, implement and evaluate modifications of the prescription process for metered-dosed inhalers to reduce GHG emissions at the UKHD. The study is part of the KliOL project (Klimaschutz an Kliniken durch Optimierung von Lieferketten/ Climate Protection in Clinics through Optimization of the Supply Chain) led by Dr. Alina Herrmann, in cooperation with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IFEU).

lisa.lamkemeyer(at)uni-heidelberg.de

Nieder, Jessica , cand. Dr. sc. hum.,

Jessica Nieder has a background in Health Psychology. She has been involved in projects concerning climate change and health in medical education as well as the general public’s preferences regarding topics and communication methods of climate-sensitive health counselling. Currently, she is working as a researcher in the AdaptNet-Project.

She has been a doctoral student at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health since 2020. Her dissertation focuses on Digitalizing medical education in Zambia.

jessica.nieder(at)uni-heidelberg.de

Quitmann, Claudia Doctoral Student (Dr. med.)

Claudia Quitmann is a physician by training. She is currently working as scientific coordinator for the project “Klimaschutz in Kliniken durch Optimierung der Lieferketten (KliOL) at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. Moreover, she is involved in the project “AdaptNet”. Since April 2020 she is a doctoral student at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. Her research interest is the Carbon footprint of health sector.

claudia.quitmann(at)uni-heidelberg.de

Reynolds, Emma Praktikantin
emma.reynolds@gmx.de

Kriit, Hedi Post-Doc

Hedi Kriit is a post-doctoral fellow and her project will focus on assessing the health and economic burden of heatwaves in Germany using machine learning methods. Hedi Kriit has a master in Public Health with a specification towards health economics. She was awarded with the best master thesis after her studies. Her PhD from Umeå Univeristy was an interdisciplinary work where she assessed the health and economic effect of sustainable transport solutions. She has also studied both short and long-term air pollution health effects. She has been successful co-applicant writing both national and international grants during her PhD studies. Her interest is applying statistical methods for estimating health effects of environmental stressors using observational data. She thrives working interdisciplinary by linking knowledge and methods from climate, health and economics. With an aim to provide for more complete understanding of climate change health effects that are occurring and currently unaccounted for in policy making.

Rybol, Leonie Doctoral Student

Leonie Rybol is a fifth year medical student at Heidelberg university working in the project branch ClimMedEd (Climate change in medical education) since February 2021.

Her research focus lays on advancing medical education by shifting the focus towards a more climate change oriented health perspective. Her project evolved around the development of a questionnaire about climate change and health for Heidelberg and Paris medical students assessing their knowledge, role perceptions and teaching preferences. The evaluation aims to investigate knowledge gaps and interests of students to sustainably adapt future medical school curriculars in order to educate competent physicians in a world that is challenged by the health effects of climate change.

leonie.rybol(at)uni-heidelberg.de

Till, Luisa Student Assistant
luisa.till(at)stud.uni-heidelberg.de