[1] It was planned that it will charged to focus on non-communicable diseases like cardiac disease, cancer and dementia, and was supposed to subsume health education tasks, so far handled by the Federal Centre for Health Education in Cologne.
[1] The law making process began in 2023, and the bill was expected to be sent to the Bundestag before summer.
[2] Due to the 2024 German government crisis, the outgoing of the planned authority is unclear.
While the RKI has been the most important public health institution in Germany, it has no mandate to recommend any interventions regarding non-communicable diseases.
[1] Other representatives of the German public health community have been critical, either calling it "symbolic politics", avoiding difficult discussions on limiting personal freedoms on sugar consumption, tobacco or overdue speed limits on the Autobahn; others are critical of the speed of the reform process without "independent scientific evaluation of what happened in the local public health services" after the COVID pandemic.