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The Journalist in Residence Fellowship enables journalists to spend two months at the WZB. During this time, the fellows pursue their own research. They take advantage of the opportunity to exchange ideas with researchers and to participate in internal or public events.

The period for the next application phase will be announced at a later date.

Participatory health research is based on a partnership between researchers, service providers and community members. The goal is to find ways of improving the health of a population, particularly social disadvantaged groups.

The HIV epidemic is one of world’s greatest health, political, economic and scientific challenges. For some countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, the large proportion of the population infected with HIV and the lack of resources for prevention and treatment poses an existential threat.

Our research is based on the premise that policy-makers can and should create the conditions for health and good health care. In particular we believe that state institutions have a responsibility to provide the formal and material parameters for this to happen. We support the realisation of this task in critical and advisory capacities.

Our research addresses questions arising from well-known demographic and epidemiological trends: the overriding significance of chronic diseases for morbidity and mortality, the ageing societies and unequal socioeconomic distribution of health chances, which continues into old age. These developments will present two major challenges for health policy over the coming years and decades.

Prof. Dr. Eva Barlösius now holds a professorship for sociology at the Leibniz University of Hannover. From 1997 - 2004 she was a fellow of the Heisenberg Programme at the Social Science Center Berlin, Working Group Public Health. Eva Barlösius fields of specialization include 1. Sociology of culture; 2.