Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Karin Wolf-Ostermann

Professor

Karin Wolf-Ostermann is Professor of "Health Care Research" at the University of Bremen and Head of the same named Department at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP), University of Bremen. She is co-spokesperson of the scientific focus "Health Sciences" at the University of Bremen and the research cluster "Evaluation" of the Leibniz Science Campus "Digital Public Health".

She is the spokesperson of the Nursing Sciences Expert Commission and heads the "Community Health Care and Nursing" degree programme.

Moreover, Karin Wolf-Ostermann is vice-chair of the Ethics Committee of the German Society for Nursing Science, a member of numerous national advisory boards, on the editorial board of various national and international journals, and a consultant and expert reviewer for national and international organisations.

Memberships

• German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics e.V.

• German Society for Nursing Science e.V. (Board of Directors until 2018)

• Interdem (pan-European network of researchers collaborating in research on and dissemination of early, timely and quality psychosocial interventions in dementia)

• International Biometric Society - German Region

• Platform Learning Systems - Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

Awards

• Science Prize of the Turkish Gerontological Society 2023

• Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America

• Hufeland Prize for the "Demnet-D" study

• Poster Prize of the German Society for Nursing Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pflegewissenschaft e.V.)

• Science prize of the nursing journal and the German Center for Evidence-based Nursing "sapere aude

• Research prize of the Medical Working Group on Smoking and Health