Dr. med. Karin Geffert

Areas of interest

• Public Health Service Research and Sustainability
• Public Health Nutrition
• Integrated knowledge translation, science communication and stakeholder engagement
• Policy analysis, systematic reviews, qualitative and mixed methods in public health

Current projects

• The role of the Public Health Service in the implementation of heat action plans in Germany
• Food environments in Africa: Addressing Malnutrition using a Syndemics Approach (Food-SAMSA)(Link)
• Policy Evaluation Network for policies affecting dietary and physical activity (PEN) (Link)
• Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI), INFORMAS Germany (Link)

Curriculum Vitae

• since 2019 Research Associate, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
• since 2019 Consultant at WHO/Europe in the water and climate programme (focus: WASH in institutions) and nutrition, physical activity and obesity programme (focus: Implementation research)
• since 2018 postgraduate MSc Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, Environment and Health Stream (until 2022)
• 06-11/2021 Technical Officer at the Water and Climate programme, European Center for Environment and Health, WHO/Europe
• 2014-2021 Medical Dissertation at Julius Maximilian’s University Würzburg (Topic: „Prevalence of chronic hepatitis B in a tertiary hospital in Mwanza, Tanzania: A cross-sectional survey with follow-up”)
• 2014-2021 Project manager of the online library MEDBOX (Link)
• 2011-2018 Study of Medicine, Julius Maximilian’s University, Würzburg, with international internships in UK, India, South Africa and Tanzania

Board and Committee Memberships

• Speaker of the working group Global Health of the German Public Health Association (DGPH)
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Zukunftsforum Public Health
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Council for Diabetes Surveillance, Robert-Koch-Institute
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Council for the Pakt for the Public Health Service (Pakt für den ÖGD)
• Member of the executive board of medmissio – Institute for Global Health
• Member of the advisory board of MISEREOR
• Further membership: German Climate Change and Health Alliance (KLUG), Global Health Alliance Deutschland (GHA-D), German Network of Young Professionals in Public Health (NÖG), Women in Global Health Germany (WGH)

• since 2020 MSc Urban Health in Freiburg, Seminar “Planetary Health”
• 2014-2022 organization of an elective program on Global and Planetary Health for students at the University of Wuerzburg, including teaching and training
• 2012-2018 Workshops on Global Health topics as part of the German Medical Student Association (bvmd)
• 2015-2016 coordinator and trainer for the Training Disaster Medicine Trainings of the international federation of medical student’s association (IFMSA)