Curriculum Vitae

since 03/2019 Professor for the field of “Theory und Empirics of Health” at the Department of Social Work and Social Welfare in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Kassel

2017-2019 Adjunct professor at the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) for the subject Public Health

2011-2019 Medical Director and Head of the Department "Health System Analysis, Healthy Regions plus, Health Services Research" at the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL), Nuremberg

2013 Umhabilitation at the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and lectureship "Health Services Research" at the Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine

2008-2011 Head of the "Health Management" department at the Institute for Health and Labour of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Bielefeld

2010-2011 Lectureship "Prevention and Health Promotion" at the Faculty of Education at the University of Bielefeld

2010 Habilitation and Venia Legendi for the subject “Public Health” at the Faculty of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Bremen

Habilitation thesis: "Unemployment, Health and Prevention Potentials: Results of the Microcensus 2005". Lectureship "Health promotion among the socially disadvantaged people"

2003-2008 Head of the Section "Health Policy Concepts, Health Targets" at the Institute for the Public Health Service of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (lögd) in Bielefeld

2003-2010 Managing Director at the European Public Health Center NRW e.V. (EPHZ)

2007-2008 Lectureship “Prevention and Health Promotion” at the Department of Social Work of the State University of Applied Sciences of Bielefeld

2001-2003 Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA), Department “Methods and Programme Evaluation”, Nuremberg

2001-2005 Lectureship subject “Empirical Methods of Social Research”, study course Nursing Management of the Hamburger Fern University of Applied Sciences (HFH)

2001 Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Public Health (P.H.) at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Bielefeld. Topic: “Addiction prevention in schools”; grade “very good”

1996-2001 Master of Public Health at the Institute for Preventive Pneumology at Nuremberg Municipal Hospital. Head of the central coordination office for Klasse2000 and other prevention programmes

1995-1998 Degree program “Diploma Health Sciences and Public Health Promotion” at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Bielefeld, degree: Master of Public Health

1991-1996 Fellow of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

1991 Instructor training course and examination for trainers (AdA) at the IHK

1990-1995 Degree program in social work at the State University of Applied Sciences of Nuremberg. Degree: Diploma Social Pedagogue