PD Dr. med. Carmen Jochem works as a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Planetary & Public Health at the Faculty of Law, Business and Economics at the University of Bayreuth. Her research focuses on planetary health (especially planetary health literacy and planetary health education) as well as public and global health (especially environmentally sensitive health promotion and prevention through healthy and sustainable lifestyles).
Carmen teaches on planetary and public health topics in various study programmes at the University of Bayreuth, the Medical Campus Upper Franconia, the University of Regensburg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Carmen studied medicine in Munich and Regensburg as well as Global Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
She worked for more than ten years as a research associate at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Regensburg. She has professional experience in the public health service and in scientific policy advice and worked for the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) in Berlin on the report "Healthy Living on a Healthy Earth". Carmen Jochem is married and the mother of four children. She worked as a trainer in group fitness for over 15 years and is regularly active in an outdoor sports group.

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Selected publications

Jochem, C. & Leitzmann, M. (2023) A call for integrating active transportation into physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines. The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 7, Issue 2, e112 - e113. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00001-3/fulltext

WBGU – Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (2023). Gesund leben auf einer gesunden Erde. Zusammenfassung. Berlin: WBGU. https://www.wbgu.de/fileadmin/user_upload/wbgu/publikationen/hauptgutachten/hg2023/pdf/wbgu_hg2023_zf_bf.pdf

Jochem, C., Leitzmann, M.F. (2023). From a Public to a Global and Planetary Health Perspective on Sedentary Behaviour Epidemiology. In: Leitzmann, M.F., Jochem, C., Schmid, D. (eds) Sedentary Behaviour Epidemiology. Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41881-5_27 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-41881-5_27

Leitzmann, M., Jochem, C. & Traidl, S. (2018). Sitzstreik. Tipps und Tricks gegen die Risiken und Nebenwirkungen des Sitzens. Freiburg: Herder https://www.herder.de/leben/shop/p6/53642-sitzstreik-klappenbroschur/

Regler, C. et al. (2023). Sustainable diets and risk of overweight and obesity: A
systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews. 2024;25:e13707. doi.org/10.1111/obr.13707 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/obr.13707

Jochem, C. et al. (2023). Planetary health literacy: A conceptual model. Front. Public Health, 16 January 2023, Sec. Planetary Health, Volume 10 - 2022 | doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.980779 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.980779/full

Weber, A. et al. (2023). Health-Promoting and Sustainable Behavior in University Students in Germany: A Cross-Sectional Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 5238. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075238 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/7/5238