Institute for Applied Health Sciences
Presentation of the IaG
The Institute for Applied Health Sciences (IaG) at Coburg University of Applied Sciences brings together extensive expertise to develop practical solutions for the holistic prevention and health promotion of vulnerable population groups.
The focus is on women’s health, gut health, nutrition, mental health and placebo effects.
The IaG is dedicated to the development and testing of innovative prevention and intervention approaches, for example through the integration of virtual reality, omics technologies and wearables.
The IaG thus offers an attractive environment for interdisciplinary collaboration with external partners from science, industry and practice.
The IaG bundles expertise in the following areas:
- Medical psychology
- Placebo research
- Stress research
- Women’s Health
- Intestinal health
- Nutritional medicine
- Sports medicine
- Dermatology
The following methods are used, among others:
- Randomized controlled trials
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Qualitative and quantitative evaluations
- Psychophysiological measurements (e.g. HRV, electrogastrogram, EEG)
- Biomarker analyses
- Microbiome analyses
