Khira Sippli, M.A.

Curriculum Vitae

Khira Sippli (M.A.) studied Political Science and Sociology at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen and the Université de Lausanne.

From 2016 to 2022, she was a research associate at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW) in Tübingen, working on various research projects and program evaluations in the fields of Social Code II (SGB II) and health promotion.

Since January 2023, she has been a research associate at the Center for Evidence-Based Healthcare (ZEGV) at the Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden. She  works on the G-BA Innovation Fund project “ImplementDiGA,” focusing on the implementation of digital health applications in the German healthcare system.

Research Interests

Qualitative Methods; Evaluation; Sociology of Professions; Health Services Research, particularly Interprofessional Collaboration in Healthcare and Digital Health.

Doctoral Project: “Transitions of Physicians into Retirement”

The doctoral project examines how physicians in Germany decide, plan, and manage their transition into retirement, with a focus on individual experiences. To investigate this research question, individual interviews are conducted with physicians from various specialties who have either retired or plan to retire by 2024.

Presentations

• 09/2024: “How robust is the evidence for positive healthcare effects of DiGA? Results of a systematic review of DiGA approval studies,” presentation at the German Congress on Health Services Research (DKVF), Potsdam.
• 04/2023: “Temporalities in physicians’ retirement transitions in Germany,” presentation at the conference “Relational Perspectives on the Life Course,” Frankfurt a. M.
• 09/2022: Poster presentation of the doctoral project at the German Congress on Health Services Research (DKVF), Potsdam.
• 06/2021: Presentation of the doctoral project at the junior workshop of the Sociology of Professions section, 11.06.2021, online.
• 09/2020: “See you not so soon? Discrimination in German Job Centers,” presentation at the annual conference of the German Economic Association (VfS), online.
• 02/2020: Poster presentation of the doctoral project at the international conference “Transitions in the Life Course – Discourses, Practices, Institutions, Subjects,” Tübingen.

Selected Publications

• Sippli, Khira/Schmalzried, Pia/Rieger, Monika A./Völter-Mahlknecht, Susanne (2021): Challenges arising for older workers from participating in a workplace intervention addressing work ability: a qualitative study from Germany. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, January 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s00420-020-01639-x .

• Sippli, Khira/Rieger, Monika A./Hüttig, Fabian (2017): GPs’ and Dentists’ Experiences and Expectations of Interprofessional Collaboration: Findings from a Qualitative Study in Germany. In: BMC Health Services Research 17:179, 2017, DOI: 10.1186/s12913-017-2116-4 

• Hüttig, Fabian/Said, Fadi/Sippli, Khira/Preiser, Christine/Rieger, Monika A. (2016): What do general practitioners and dentists report about their collaboration? Results from a qualitative exploration. In: Das Gesundheitswesen 6/2016. eFirst: DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-108645 .

• Hüttig, Fabian/Said, Fadi/Sippli, Khira (2016): The elderly patient and the cooperation of general practitioners and dentists. In: SZM – Journal for Geriatric Dentistry 2016, 4(1), pp. 17–22.

Memberships

• Sociology of Professions Section, German Sociological Association (DGS)