Award for study on extreme temperatures and emergency careHCHE research awarded the Wilfried-Lorenz-Versorgungsforschungspreis 2025

25 September 2025, by Hannes Rathjen

The HCHE members Jona Frasch, Dr. Claudia Konnopka, and Prof. Hans-Helmut König were awarded the Wilfried-Lorenz-Versorgungsforschungspreis of the German Network Health Service Research (DKVF) for their scientific work on the impact of extreme ambient temperatures on inpatient emergency care in Germany. The winning study, “Effects of Extreme Temperature on the Morbidity, Mortality and Case Severity in German Emergency Care,” was published earlier this year in the journal Environmental Research. Parts of the research were already presented last November at the HCHE event Research Results Live on Climate & Health.

The prize was awarded at this year’s German Congress of Health Services Research, held from September 22–24 at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). The award recognizes research that contributes to improving health care and advancing health services research in Germany, demonstrating scientific originality, very high methodological quality, and high relevance for implementation in patient care.

The final press release (in German) from DKVF can be found here.