Prof. Dr. Silke Brenne, MPH

After a voluntary social year at Tübingen University Hospital, Silke Brenne trained as a nurse in Tübingen and Berlin, and then studied social work and social pedagogy at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.

She then worked in development cooperation in Guatemala (2002/2003) and in outpatient and inpatient health and care settings.

After her Master's in Public Health at Freie Universität Berlin, Silke Brenne worked from 2010 to 2013 as a project coordinator on a DFG-funded health services research study at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She began her dissertation there on "The influence of migration and acculturation processes on breastfeeding intention and duration", which she completed as an Alice Salomon Scholar. In 2018 she received the dissertation prize of the German Society for Psychosomatic Gynaecology and Obstetrics (DGPFG) for this work.