Helmut Brand, Prof. Dr. med., Dr. h.c., MSc, MFPH, DLSHTM

Born 1957

married to Prof. Dr. med. Angela Brand MPH

Recent Position:

Professor of European Public Health, Head of the Department of International Health and Director of the Research Programme on Comparative Health at Maastricht University  

Training in Medicine, Public Health and Social Medicine:

1978 - 1984 Study of Medicine at the Universities of Düsseldorf, Germany and Zürich, Switzerland

1984 PhD in Medicine at the University of Düsseldorf

1985 - 1987/1990  Clinical training in internal medicine, surgery and psychiatry

1987/88 Master of Science in Community Medicine at the University of London, Faculty of Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in cooperation with London School of Economics (LSE)

1991 Specialist in Public Health and Social Medicine in Germany

1996 Postgraduate Diploma of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Community Medicine (DLSHTM)

1998 Member of the Faculty of Public Health (MFPH)

2010 Dr. h. c. Medical University Sofia, Bulgaria

Scientific Public Health Societies:

2001 - 2007 Vice-President of the German Society of Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP)

since 2008  Member of the Board of the German Society of Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP)

since 2002  Member of the Governing Board of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA)

1996-2003  Managing Director of the European Public Health Centre NRW (EPHZ)

since 2004  Vice-President of the EPHZ

2008 - 2011 Member of the Executive Board of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER)

2011 President elect of ASPHER

Member of Editorial Boards:

1995 -2008  Scientific Series of the Institute of Public Health NRW

since 1998  Das Gesundheitswesen

since 2000  European Journal of Public Health

since 2003  Italian Journal of Public Health

since 2008 Health Policy and Management (Bulgaria)

European Union:

since 1994  Advisor in Public Health and Social Medicine to the European Commission (e.g. DG Sanco, Office of the European Policy Advisors)

since 1995  Projects in the Public Health Programme of the European Union

2006 - 2008  Leader of the “Health System Working Party” of the Public Health Programme

Advisory Boards:

Since 2008 Head of advisory board health reporting (GEBMON) at the Robert Koch-Institute

Since 2010 Member of the advisory board “center on cancer registry data” at the Robert Koch-Institute

Professional Work in Public Health and Social Medicine:

1988 - 1993  District Health Authority Minden-Lübbecke , Germany (Social Medicine, Public Health)

1990 Ministry of Health Lower Saxony , Germany (Pilot Study for the Cancer Registry of Lower Saxony )

1993 - 1995  Ministry of Health Hamburg, Germany (Health Systems Analysis, Cancer Registry, Public Health Reporting, Health Service Research, Medical Statistics)

1995 - 2007  Director of the Institute of Public Health NRW (lögd)

2007 - 2008  additionally: Managing Director of the Epidemiological Cancer Registry NRW

2008 Scientific Director of the Institute of Health and Work, NRW (LIGA)

since September 2008 Professor of European Public Health, Head of the Department of International Health and Director of the Research Programme on Comparative Health at Maastricht University.