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Field Epidemiology Research in German Public Health

The Field Epidemiology Research in German Public Health (FEGPH) group of Philipp Zanger conducts research on population health, mostly within the framework of the German Public Health sector and at its intersections with hygiene, infection prevention, and migration medicine. To this end, his group has close ties with the Federal State Agency for Consumer and Health Protection Rhineland-Palatinate (Landesuntersuchungsamt Rheinland-Pfalz), where he heads the Institute of Hygiene and Infection Prevention. Most of the group’s work is on infectious disease outcomes, but occasionally also does research on knowledge, attitudes and practice or evaluates policy. Collaboration partners include the District Public Health Departments (Gesundheitsämter) in Rhineland-Palatinate, various Federal State Public Health Authorities (Landesämter), Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz and Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin. In collaboration with the University Clinics of Schleswig-Holstein, Prof. Dr. D. Nurjadi, at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Philipp Zanger co-ordinates StaphTrav - the European Network on the import of Staphylococci.

  • Schoeps A, Röbl K, Walter N, Neute A, Walter B, Freudenau I, Jurke A, Klier C, Heinmüller P, Saeed S, Metz J, Wilking H, Zanger P. (2023). Increased number of cryptosporidiosis cases with travel history to Croatia might be related to swimming pools, Germany, Eurosurveillance 29(1):2300699. 
  • Schoeps A, Walter J, Vogt M, Bent S, Zanger P; Palatina Public Health Study Group (2021), Direct and indirect vaccination effects on SARS-CoV-2 infection in day- care centres: Evaluating the policy for early vaccination of day-care staff in Germany, Epidemiology and Infection 151:e80. 
  • Schoeps A, Hoffmann D, Tamm C, Vollmer B, Haag S, Kaffenberger T, Ferguson- Beiser K, Kohlhase-Griebel B, Basenach S, Missal A, Höfling K, Michels H, Schall A, Kappes H, Vogt M, Jahn K, Bärnighausen T, Zanger P (2021), Surveillance of SARS- CoV-2 transmission in educational institutions, August to December 2020, Germany. Epidemiology and Infection 149:e213. 
  • Omar S, Bartz C, Becker S, Basenach S, Pfeifer S, Trapp C, Hamm H, Schlichting HC, Friederichs M, Koch U, Jestrabek C, Hilger E, Vogt M, Jahn K, Chen S, Bärnighausen T, Zanger P; Palatina Public Health Study Group (2020), Duration of SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in COVID-19 patients in home isolation, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 2020 - an interval-censored survival analysis. Eurosurveillance 25(30):2001292.
  • Ehlkes L, Pfeifer Y, Werner G, Ignatius R, Vogt M, Eckmanns T, Zanger P, Walter J (2019), No evidence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in stool samples of 1,544 asylum seekers arriving in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, April 2016 to March, 2017. Eurosurveillance 24(8):1800030.
  • Burckhardt F, Hoffmann D, Jahn K, Heuner K, Jacob D, Vogt M, Bent S, Grunow R, Zanger P (2018) Oropharyngeal Tularemia from Freshly Pressed Grape Must. New England Journal of Medicine 379(2):197-199 (Resarch Letter)
  • Ehlkes L, George M, Knautz D, Burckhardt F, Jahn K, Vogt M, Zanger P (2018), Negligible import of enteric pathogens by newly-arrived asylum seekers and no impact on incidence of notified Salmonella and Shigella infections and outbreaks in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, January 2015 to May 2016. Eurosurveillance 23(20):17-00463.
  • Ehlkes L, George M, Samosny G, Burckhardt F, Vogt M, Bent S, Jahn K, Zanger P (2017), Management of a Lassa fever outbreak, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 2016. Eurosurveillance 22(39):16-00728.

Group Leader

Prof. Dr. med. Philipp Zanger 
Im Neuenheimer Feld 324
R. 308, 69120 Heidelberg
Phone: +49 (0) 6221 56-7758
Fax: +49 (0) 6221 56-5039
Email: philipp.zanger(at)uni-heidelberg.de  

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Landesuntersuchungsamt Rheinland-Pfalz
Institut für Hygiene und Infektionsschutz
Bodelschwinghstraße 19
76829 Landau
Phone: +49 (0) 6341 43310-0
Fax: +49 (0) 6341 85399
E-Mail: philipp.zanger(at)lua.rlp.de