Honoured guests,

Thank you so very much for joining us at our 4th Methods Forum on 19^th June 2026, despite the boiling temperatures.

It was such a hot day! Even more so, we greatly appreciated your participation and contribution to the discussions. Without your curiosity, insights, and engagement, the forum would not have been nearly as interactive, lively, and thought-provoking.

Thank you Markus Schwerer for those beautiful photos (more below).

And very special Thanks go to our speakers for their interesting and fascinating lectures:

• Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Briel, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Research, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
   
• Dr. Sarah Gorst, Institute of Population Health, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
   
• Dr. Gary Hickey, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
   
• Dr. Britta Lang, University Medical Center Freiburg – University of Freiburg, Clinical Trials Unit
   
• Dr. Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Institute of General Practice (ifam), Centre for Health and Society (chs), Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany, and Research Group Evidence for Climate Solutions (ECS), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany
   
• Dr. Roses Parker, The Cochrane Collaboration, London, United Kingdom
   
• Dipl.-Pol., MPH Daniel Reuter, The Federal Joint Committee, Berlin, Germany
   
• Apl. Prof. Dr. Georg Schmidt, Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin, TUM Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany
   
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Holger Schunemann, Medical Specialty School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
   
• Prof. Dr. Anna Lene Seidler, German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (Site Greifswald/Rostock)
   
• Dr. Waldemar Siemens, Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg / Medical Faculty - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
   
• PD Dr. Alexander Supady, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Interdisciplinary Medical Intensive Care 
   
• Dr. med. vet. Volker Vervölgyi, Head of the Division of Oncology (solid tumours) and Routine Practice Data Collection, Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), Köln, Germany