Studies: Mathematics, Humboldt-University Berlin.
Degrees: PhD in Theoretical Statistics, Humboldt-University Berlin, 1981.
Current Position: Director of the Department for Epidemiology and Health Reporting at the Robert Koch-Institute.
Other positions: Project manager, Health Survey for Adults (Gesundheitssurvey für Erwachsene, DEGS); Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Federal Association of Doctors and Dentists in Public Health Service; and the Academic Advisory Council for the Development of the Risk Structure Compensation between the Statutory Health Insurances; and the Epidemiological Planning Committee for a National Cohort (Helmholtz-cohort); and the Advisory Council and Supervisory Board of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig; Deputy Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the German Medical Association.
Past Positions: Research Associate, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin; Research Associate, Institute for Stochastics; University of Hamburg; worked at the Federal Public Health Department, Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, from 1992; Head of the department "Non-communicable diseases and health reporting", Robert Koch-Institute, from 1998; Project manager of the Federal Health Survey (Bundesgesundheitssurvey, BGS'98), 1998; Project manager of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents, 1998.
Main Research of Research: methods of epidemiology, risk communication, health reporting
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