Eva Münster, MPH postgrad.

Eva Münster holds the Chair of General Practice Research in Vulnerable Populations. The chair is dedicated to interdisciplinary research and the transparent communication of scientific findings, particularly in previously underrepresented areas of general practice, internal medicine, public health, occupational medicine and social medicine.

The focus is on two key areas:
1. Scientific examination of groups of people who are socially invisible or on the margins of public perception.
The aim is to present their realities of life in a scientifically sound manner and to strengthen their visibility in social discourse. There is a particular focus on aspects of health and illness and on the many barriers these groups encounter in accessing medical care. These include limited access to health services, structural discrimination in the health system, a lack of culturally sensitive or target group-specific services, and an overall lack of data on their health needs.

The groups of people include:
• Over-indebted citizens
• Young people
• Prisoners and prison staff
• Patients with severe multiple disabilities at medical care centres for people with disabilities (MZEBs)
• People with inadequate health insurance coverage

2. Intensive research into diseases and their risk factors that have received insufficient attention within the scientific community with regard to general medical care. The aim is to broaden understanding of their causes, effects and prevention options in general medicine and to bring this into the public debate.
Currently researched clinical pictures:
• Vitamin B6 deficiency
• Vitamin D deficiency
• Glaucoma diseases
• Addiction and dependency disorders

Current

Professor of General Practice Research in Vulnerable Population Groups
at the Chair of General Practice I and Interprofessional Care (Head: Prof. Klaus Weckbecker, MD) at the Institute of General Practice and Outpatient Healthcare, Witten/Herdecke University

Previous

professional activities
Witten/Herdecke University (research assistant)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn (research assistant)
Federal Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (advisor for early benefit assessment/HTA)
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (research assistant, junior professor for social medicine/public health)

Education
Studied Oecotrophology (Dipl. oeco. troph.) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn
Postgraduate course in Public Health and Epidemiology (MPH postgrad.) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Doctorate in Oecotrophology (Dr. oec. troph.) at the Technical University of Munich
Junior professorship in Social Medicine/Public Health at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (positive evaluation; adjunct professor)

Supervision and training of doctoral students (Dr. med. and Dr. rer. medic)
Experience in teaching the following subjects: Social medicine; Q3 Health economics, health systems and public health care; Q10 Health promotion and disease prevention; Fundamentals of nutrition; Introduction to public health, public health in childhood and adolescence

Healthcare, barriers faced by people with financial problems/in poverty/in excessive debt

It should be explicitly noted that Prof. Dr. Münster is not a medical professional, but rather an ecotrophologist (nutrition and home economics) with an additional degree in public health. 

Co-founder of the Network for Research on Over-Indebtedness (2024)

Co-founder of the State Poverty Conference in Rhineland-Palatinate: Motto As poverty grows, so must the forces to combat it. (2010)

Head of the interdisciplinary working group ‘Poverty and Debt’ at the University of Mainz (2006 - 2014)
Membership

German Society for General Medicine
German Nutrition Society
German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Awards
German Alzheimer's Association: Research funding for the project ‘General practitioner dementia diagnostics for people with a migration background’ with Dr Johannes Just, Rieke Schnakenberg and Prof. Dr Klaus Weckbecker (2016)