Course Description

This winter semester, the BIH AG Health Data Privacy offers an interdisciplinary lecture series examining the opportunities and privacy challenges associated with the collection, use and sharing of health data. Through perspectives from regulation, privacy enhancing technologies, data governance and human centred privacy, the series explores how the interests and expectations of data subjects can be reconciled with the legitimate needs of researchers, healthcare providers and other data users. The lectures highlight both the benefits enabled by health data use and the limitations, trade-offs and practical challenges of different approaches to protecting privacy.

Target audience

The series is offered primarily to doctoral students at Charité. External PhD candidates and public attendees are welcome within the capacity of the event space. 

Participation & certification

You can choose to register for all or only for lectures on certain dates. If you’re registered to attend all lectures you can earn a participation certificate of 2,5 ECTS by coursework in the form of submitted post-lecture memos, and a final presentation, relating one of the lecture topics to one’s own research. Internal PhD students will be given priority to present at the end of the semester.

Topics
Date Topic Lecturer
9.11.2026 Digitalisation & Health Law Maija Poikela
16.11.2026 Regulatory requirements for medical devices Sophie Grimme (online)
23.11.2026 Anonymising health text data Hammam Abu Attieh
30.11.2026 Differential privacy for health data Sarah Gaballah
7.12.2026 Discussing privacy concepts with non-privacy audiences Jens Geißler (online)
14.12.2026 Healthcare voice assistants and verbal consent tbd
11.1.2027 Women's health and rethinking one-size-fits-all privacy mechanisms Philipp Kellmeyer (online)
18.1.2027 Sharing health data Ala Eddine Laouir
25.1.2027 AI ethics and human-technology interaction in medicine Roland Roller
1.2.2027 Health data privacy (broader perspectives) William Seymor (online)

Key Figures

Dates and time
Lectures every Monday 9.11.2026 - 01.02.2027 at 10:15-11:45 (no lectures on 21.12.2026, 28.12.2026 and 04.01.2027). Student presentations on 08.02.2027 and 15.02.2027.

Language
English 

ECTS
2,5

Location
Online or Am Zirkus, Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 3, 10117 Berlin. You will receive further details (room / online meeting link) a few days before sessions.

Registration
Please register here for all sessions that you would like to attend. 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Maija Poikela

Professorin für Health Data Privacy

E-Mail:
maija.poikela[at]bih-charite.de
Anschrift:
Postal address:
Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
Office:
Rahel-Hirsch-Center for Translational Medicine
Luisenstr. 65, 10115 Berlin