Dr. Judith Wenner

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Academic Background

2016 - 2021       Doctorate (Dr. of Public Health) at the department of Epidemiology & International Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bielefeld University
2013 - 2016     Master of Science in Public Health (M.Sc.) and European Master of Public Health (EMPH), Bielefeld University
2012Term abroad at the Université Libre in Brussels (ULB), Belgium
2010 - 2013

Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (B.A.), Humboldt University of Berlin

 

 

Professional Experience

Since 2021               

Research Associate at the Department of Rehabilitative Gerontology, University of Cologne

Since 2020   

Research Associate / Affiliated Researcher at the Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics and Social Sciences of Health, University of Cologne

2016 - 2020

Research Associate at the Department of Epidemiology & International Public Health and the Department of Population Medicine & Health Services Research, School of Public Health, Bielefeld University

 


Publications

 

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

Wenner J, Albrecht A, Zimmermann J (2025). Challenges in research on the oldest old: The example of inequalities in functional health. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 77:881–910. doi.org/10.1007/s11577-025-01032-x. 

Kaspar R, Albrecht A, Brijoux T, Fey J, Geithner L, Oswald V, Reissmann M, Wagner M, Wenner J, Zank S, Zimmermann J (2024). Successful Life Conduct in Very Old Age: Theoretical Implications and Empirical Support from a Population-Based Study. Applied Research in Quality of Life 19:1–25. doi.org/10.1007/s11482-024-10301-4.

Kaspar R, Brijoux T, Albrecht A, Zimmermann J, Wenner J, Fey J, Reissmann M, Wagner M, Zank S (2023). Challenges and benefits of including the institutionalized, non-communicative and cognitively impaired in a representative survey of the very old. Survey Research Methods, 17(2):111–129. doi.org/10.18148/srm/2023.v17i2.8008.

Wenner J, Wagner M (2022). Voting behaviour and health among the oldest-old in Germany: results from a population-based cross-sectional study. Journal of Population Ageing, 16:699–717. doi.org/10.1007/s12062-022-09391-5.

Wenner J, Biddle L, Gottlieb N, Bozorgmehr K (2022). Inequalities in access to healthcare by local policy model among newly arrived refugees: evidence from population-based studies in two German states. International Journal for Equity in Health, 21(11). doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01607-y.

Biddle L, Wenner J, Bozorgmehr K (2022). Inequalities in health system responsiveness among asylum seekers and refugees: A population-based, cross-sectional study in Germany. PLOS Global Public Health, 2(9), e0000984. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000984.

Wenner J, Bozorgmehr K, Duwendag S, Rolke K, Razum O (2020). Differences in realized access to healthcare among newly arrived refugees in Germany: Results from a natural quasi-experiment. BMC Public Health, 20(1):1–11. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08981-2.

Rolke K, Wenner J, Razum O (2020). Der Zugang zu gesundheitlicher Versorgung nach Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte: die Sicht geflüchteter Patient(inn)en. Das Gesundheitswesen, 82:961–968. doi.org/10.1055/a-1205-1021.

Rolke K, Wenner J, Razum O (2019). Shaping Access to Health Care for Refugees on the Local Level in Germany – Mixed-Methods Analysis of Official Statistics and Perspectives of Gatekeepers. Health Policy, 123(9):845–850. doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.07.001.

Wenner J, Rolke K, Breckenkamp J, Sauzet O, Bozorgmehr K, Razum O (2019). Inequalities in realized access to health care among recently arrived refugees depending on local access model: study protocol for a quasi-experimental study. BMJ Open, 9:e027357. doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027357.

Dyck M, Wenner J, Wengler A, Bartig S, Fischer F, Wandschneider L, Santos-Hoevener C, Razum O (2019). Migration und Gesundheit in Deutschland – eine Bestandsaufnahme der Datenquellen.  Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung – Gesundheitsschutz, 62(8):935–942. doi.org/10.1007/s00103-019-02973-3.

Razum O, Wenner J (2016). Social and health epidemiology of immigrants in Germany: past, present and future. Public Health Reviews, 37(4). doi.org/10.1186/s40985-016-0019-2.

Wenner J, Razum O, Schenk L, Ellert U, Bozorgmehr K. (2016). Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen aus Familien mit ungesichertem Aufenthaltsstatus im Vergleich zu Kindern mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund: Auswertung der KiGGS-Daten 2003–06. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 59(5):627–635. doi.org/10.1007/s00103-016-2338-3.

 

Book Chapters

Wenner J, Wagner, Zank S (2023). Lebensqualitäten in der Hochaltrigkeit. In: Hank K, Schulz-Nieswandt F, Wagner M, Zank S (eds.), Handbuch Alternsforschung (2. Aufl.). Nomos, 561-602.

Wenner J, Namer Y, Razum O (2019). Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers: Use and Misuse of Labels in Public Health Research. In: Krämer A, Fischer F (eds.), Refugee Migration and Health Challenges for Germany and Europe. Springer International Publishing, 49–62.

Razum O, Wenner J (2019). Health of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Germany: Reflecting on Normative Agendas. In: Kuehlmeyer K, Klingler C, Huxtable R (eds.), Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Healthcare for Migrants. Routledge, 21–32.

Wenner J, Razum O (2017). Die gesundheitliche Versorgung Geflüchteter – von Gleichheit und Ungleichheit. In: Frewer A, Bergemann L, Hack C, et al. (eds.), Die kosmopolitische Klinik. Globalisierung und kultursensible Medizin. Jahrbuch Ethik in der Klinik. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 75–92.

Wenner J, Razum O (2016). Ethische Fragen der Migrant/-innengesundheit. In: Schröder-Bäck P, Kuhn J (eds.), Ethik in den Gesundheitswissenschaften – Eine Einführung. Beltz Juventa:182–191.

 

Reports and Discussion papers

Wenner J, Albrecht A (2025). Diskriminierung und Teilhabe im Hinblick auf Migrationserfahrungen von hochaltrigen Menschen: Ergebnisse der D80+-Studie. Expertise zum Neunten Altersbericht der Bundesregierung. Herausgegeben von S. Migala, C. Hagen und F. Berner. Berlin: Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen. www.neunter-altersbericht.de/expertisen.

Kaspar R, Wenner J, Tesch-Römer C (2022). Einsamkeit in der Hochaltrigkeit (D80+ Kurzberichte Nr. 4). Köln. Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health. nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-77004-2.

Wenner J, Albrecht A, Schäfer N, Wagner M (2022). Soziale Eingebundenheit (D80+ Kurzberichte Nr. 5). Köln. Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health. nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-78188-1.

Bozorgmehr K, Wenner J, Razum O (2017). Restricted access to health care for asylum-seekers: applying a human rights lens to the argument of resource constraints. European Journal of Public Health, 27:592–593.

Bozorgmehr K, Wenner J, Noest S, Stock C, Razum O (2016). WHO compendium of good practice on health system responses to migration in Europe. Case study Germany: Financing of health services provided to asylum seekers.

Razum O, Wenner J, Bozorgmehr K (2016). Wenn Zufall über den Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung bestimmt: Geflüchtete in Deutschland. Gesundheitswesen, 78(11):711–714. doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-116231.

Razum O, Wenner J, Bozorgmehr K (2016). How the Spectre of Societal Homogeneity Undermines Equitable Healthcare for Refugees Comment on “Defining and Acting on Global Health: The Case of Japan and the Refugee Crisis”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 6(6):349–351. doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2016.139.