CURRICULUM VITAE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

From 2010       Department of International Health, CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University

2006-2009         Rearcher, NRW Institute for Health and Work (LIGA.NRW), Bielefeld 

                        (Germany)

I2SARE - Health Inequality Indicators in Regions of Europe

-          Development of a typology of European regions by means of a cluster analysis

Public Health Reporting

-          Writing of general and specific public health reports

PHGEN - Public Health Genomics European Network

-          Work on the assessment of genome-based technologies in Public Health

-          Finalisation of the project (project coordinator)

ECHIM - European Community Health Indicator Monitoring

-          Improving and maintaining the indicator database ICHI

2006-2008         Researcher, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld (Germany)

PIA PHR - Policy Impact Assessment of Public Health Reporting

Lectures - Prevention and basic epidemiology

1993-1999           Medical Laboratory Assistant, private laboratories in Bremen and Hamburg (Germany)

Haematology, Microbiology, Parasitology

EDUCATION

2008-2010        MSc Public Health (Specialisation Epidemiology), Maastricht 

                       University

Master thesis - The influence of migratory background and parental education on health care utilization of young children in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - a cross-sectional study

2000-2005            Study of Public Health (Diplom Gesundheitswirtin (FH)), University of Applied Sciences  Hamburg (Germany)

Thesis - Efficiency of hospital-based MRSA Surveillance with two frequency algorithms for early outbreak detection – comparison with a clonal cluster analysis 

SCHOLARSHIP

2010                  Young Gasteiner - European Health Forum Gastein

2011                  Young Gasteiner - European Health Forum Gastein

VOCATIONAL TRAINING

1991-1993            Medical Laboratory Assistant (MTA/L), Völker Schule, Osnabrück (Germany)