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Save the date: 29 April, 2026

Health for ALL! – Successful strategies through personalized health.

Medicine and public health aim to provide optimal care – ideally tailored to individual needs. Personalized health combines both disciplines by focusing on medical and health-related care as well as healthy and sick individuals. Insights gained at the individual level regarding effective strategies for health promotion/prevention, diagnosis, therapy, and rehabilitation should benefit the entire population and thus also contribute to reducing health inequalities. The possibilities and limitations of personalized health will also be discussed.

Look forward to new insights and inspiration. Participation is free of charge. Please save the date, we look forward to seeing you there!

The Health Congress

You see the President Alexandra Bormann at a speaker's lectern

Dr Alexandra Bormann, HFU President, at the 2024 Health Congress

As a university of applied sciences, we offer a platform for current and health-related topics every year with the Health Congress. Our aim is to raise awareness, discuss and identify solutions.

The congress is a further project of the Schwarzwald-Baar Health Network, the inaugural event having taken place in 2009. A core idea of the health network is to promote exchange between health stakeholders. In addition to networking in the field of research and practice, it is also important to offer interested private individuals a platform for information and exchange. The congress is therefore aimed at a wide range of different visitors.

HFU and the health network organise the health congress together with the university's support association and the City of Furtwangen. Each year, the congress is dedicated to health-related and socially relevant topics and challenges.

Review

2025: Mental Health: Where do we stand? - Effectively maintaining, promoting and restoring mental health

Furtwangen University hosted the 14th Health Congress on 2 April, 2025.

In lectures, workshops and a poster exhibition a large number of visitors were introduced to and discussed current findings on the mental health of various target groups, effective strategies for prevention and health promotion as well as suitable and sufficient therapy and care concepts for mentally ill people.

External link opens in a new window:Read more about the 2025 Health Congress
Download file:2025 programme to download

Some impressions
Congress poster with a graphic showing a head and the title Mental Health
You see a room full of people listening to a speaker on stage.
Prof. Reich on the stage
You see a room full of people listening to a speaker on stage.
You see a person speaking into a microphone
You see a group of organisers and speakers on the stage
You see a small room with people listening to a speaker at the front
You see the keynote speaker signing an autograph
You see an overhead view of a hand drawing a cartoon
Topics - Lectures and workshops

Take-home messages

The key statements, ideas and stimuli from the individual items on the programme have been compiled as a thematic congress summary:

Download file:Take-home messages 2025 Health Congress

Key contacts

We're happy to answer your questions!

Prof. Dr. Kirsten Steinhausen
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Steinhausen Vice-Dean for Partnership and Society
Vice-Dean Faculty III: Health, Medical & Life Sciences
International Coordinator AGW/SSB
Sabine Grimm Member of academic staff
Organization Health Congress
Operations Manager Hazardous Materials Lab
 Mail gesundheitskongress@hs-furtwangen.de
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