Helping as a principle Helping as a principle
Helping as a principle
  • Studying medicine
  • Helping refugees in Jordan
  • Founding the Al Salam Help Foundation e.V. at Witten/Herdecke University
Helping as a principle Helping as a principle
Helping as a principle
  • Studying medicine
  • Helping refugees in Jordan
  • Founding the Al Salam Help Foundation e.V. at Witten/Herdecke University
Levka Dahmen, economics and medical student Levka Dahmen, economics and medical student
Double degree means double benefits
  • Appreciates interdisciplinarity as additional benefit
  • Reckons that as a doctor in the making she needs to know about economic correlations as well
  • Studies Medicine and Business Economics / Management B.A.
Faculty of Health

What defines us

Personality is most important
All under one roof
Social Commitment
Joint research

The Faculty of Health combines the four disciplines “Medicine”, “Dentistry”, “Nursing Science” and “Psychology” under one roof – thus being the only institution of this kind in Germany.

We are convinced that a joint academic environment shared by various disciplines and professions will lead to a more intensive and convincing work on future topics of modern health care. It is our passion to create and foster this academic environment.

Here is more information (in German) on what this faculty is standing for – on what we aim to achieve – on who is responsible – on who co-operates with us – on how we have organized the faculty.

Our degree programmes

Research at the Faculty of Health is interdisciplinary and translational, i.e. it is always geared towards a lively exchange between research laboratory and clinical use. The faculty’s research focus is on Integrative and Personalized Health Care (IPHC). In this context, various projects are implemented in all areas of health research, from basic research to clinical research and health outcomes research. 

More information (in German).

Publications and current research results

Year
Title
Author
Type
2022
Long-term oxygen therapy in COPD: what is the evidence?

Windisch W, Magnet FS

Article
2022
Person- centered assessment of apathy and resistance to care in people living with dementia: Review of existing measures.

Mast BT, Ertle EM, Kolanowski A, Mountain G, Moniz-Cook E, Halek M

Article
2022
What 'translating science' can learn from 'translating languages'

Boettger MK

Article
2022
There's an app for that, but nobody's using it: Insights on improving patient access and adherence to digital therapeutics in Germany

Dahlhausen F, Zinner M, Bieske L, Ehlers JP, Boehme P, Fehring L

Article
2022
An individualized functional magnetic resonance imaging protocol to assess semantic congruency effects on episodic memory in an aging multilingual population

Perquin M, Viswanathan S, Vaillant M, Risius O, Huiart L, Schmit JC, Diederich NJ, Fink GR, Kukolja J

Article
2022
Monkeypox infection with concomitant penile lymphoedema

Kreuter A, Grossmann M, Müller VL, Michalowitz AL, Oellig F, Silling S, Heger E, Wieland U

Article
2022
A review found heterogeneous approaches and insufficient reporting in overviews on adverse events

Sachse T, Mathes T, Dorando E, Heß S, Thürmann P, Schmiedl S, Kanji S, Lunny C, Thabet P, Pieper D

Article
2022
Burden of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections in Germany: occurrence and outcomes of different variants

Bonsignore M, Hohenstein S, Kodde C, Leiner J, Schwegmann K, Bollmann A, Möller R, Kuhlen R, Nachtigall I

Article
2022
100,000 lumens to treat seasonal affective disorder: A proof of concept RCT of Bright, whole-ROom, All-Day (BROAD) light therapy

Sandkühler JF, Brochhagen S, Rohde P, Muscheidt RC, Grömer TW, Müller H, Brauner JM

Article
2022
Three-year disease-free remission in a xeroderma pigmentosum patient after adjuvant anti-PD-1 therapy

Scheer V, Schmalz O, Lehmann P, Hofmann SC, Wesselmann U

Article
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Schools

Four schools belong to our faculty. They all offer degree programmes and engage in research. More information on all schools except of Psychology/Psychotherapy is only available in German at the moment.

Students of all Schools have organized themselves in student councils and always find new ways of disseminating their ideas and initiatives in the world. Everybody interested in working on the key issues concerning the future and in participating in the daily challenges of our academic self-administration, as well as everybody wishing to intervene constructively and provide genuine input is welcome here. Learn more about student involvement at Witten/Herdecke University.

More information (in German)

You are aiming at achieving further academic qualification? The Faculty of Health with its four Schools offers an extraordinary broad range of subjects and in-depth scientific research. If you have successfully acquired the corresponding degrees, you will have the chance of evolving your scientific knowledge. The faculty has the right to award the following doctorates:

  • Dr. med. (Medicine)
  • Dr. med. dent. (Dentistry)
  • Dr. rer. medic. (Health Sciences)
  • Dr. phil. (Psychology and Nursing Science)
  • Dr. rer. nat. (Natural Sciences/Biomedicine)

We also offer the possibility to acquire a PhD degree in Nursing Science and Biomedicine. Scientists aiming at achieving further qualification after their doctorate are able to acquire postdoctoral degrees at all four Schools. Here is more information.

More information (in German)

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Die Universität Witten/Herdecke ist durch das NRW-Wissenschaftsministerium unbefristet staatlich anerkannt und wird – sowohl als Institution wie auch für ihre einzelnen Studiengänge – regelmäßig akkreditiert durch: