Field of expertise

Nicole Rosenkötter is a PhD fellow at the Department International Health. She is working in the field of disease surveillance and health monitoring and is analyzing the use of emergency medical care data for these public health tasks.

Biography/Background/Career summary/Working experience/Education
Nicole Rosenkötter received a Public Health degree from the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Germany in 2005. Afterwards she worked from 2006 to 2009 at the NRW Institute for Health and Work in Bielefeld, Germany (former NRW Institute for Public Health, loegd), which is a regional public health agency. During this appointment she was involved in routine public health monitoring activities as well as in European funded projects focusing on the development of a European health indicator set (ECHIM), analyzing factors for a policy impact of public health reporting (PIA-PHR), defining clusters of European regions which share a common pattern of health indicators (I2SARE), and public health genomics (PHGEN). Parallel Nicole Rosenkötter started to study Epidemiology at Maastricht University and she graduated with a MSc Public Health (Epidemiology ) in August 2010. Currently Nicole Rosenkötter is working on her PhD research focusing on application possibilities of syndromic surveillance/monitoring systems based on emergency medical care data. For this activity she is connected to the European funded project SIDARTHa (www.sidartha.eu).

Research Interest

Nicole Rosenkötter is interested in the development and application of new approaches for disease surveillance and health monitoring to identify health needs and health inequalities on population level as well as to use these information for the development of targeted health interventions and informed decision making.