Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Prof. Dr. Lothar H. Wieler
 

Dr. med. Anatol-Fiete Näher, M.A.

Postdoc-Researcher

Phone:+49 (331) 5509-176
E-Mail:anatolfiete.naeher(at)hpi.de
Room:G.2.2.30
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Profile and Commitments

Anatol-Fiete Näher is a social scientist and physician who specializes in the social determinants of digital health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). He specifically focuses on fairness preferences and metrics in the use of machine learning for health. Additionally, his research pays particular attention to the integration and usage of real-world and secondary health data. Evaluating digital solutions for prevention and clinical practice is another area of his expertise. Before his work as a scientist, he acquired clinical expertise as a resident in internal medicine.

Current Projects

  • Fairness Preferences for Automated Allocations of Scarce Medical Resources
  • Risk & Bias Perceptions of Health ML Users
  • Representativity in Digital Real-World Trials

Research Interests

  • Digital Health Disparities 
  • Descriptive Ethics for ML 
  • Real World Evidence for Digital Health Technologies 
  • AMR 
  • Survey Methodology

Experience

  • Postdoc researcher, Digital global health, Hasso-Plattner Institut, Potsdam, Germany | since 2023
  • Postdoc researcher, Institute of Medical Informatics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany since 2022 
  • Health Data Management Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany 2020 - 2023 
  • Resident Physician, Dept. of Pneumology, Helios Klinikum Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany 2019 - 2020 
  • Physician, Institute of International Health, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2018 - 2019 
  • Advisor, IGES Institute, Berlin, Germany 2018 - 2018
  • Research Scientist, University of Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Sociology 2014 - 2014 and 2010 - 2010
  • Research Scientist, University of Bielefeld, Germany, Faculty of Sociology 2009 - 2010

Education

  • Dr. med. (postgraduate research doctorate), thesis submitted 07/2017, defended 09/2020 Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Germany, 04/2014 - 07/2017 
  • Approbation (license to practice as a physician), Medical School, University of Leipzig, Germany 10/2010 - 05/2017, electives in Gondar, Ethiopia & Kathmandu, Nepal 
  • Magister Artium (M.Sc. equivalent), Sociology and Political Science, Universities of Leipzig and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; University of Glasgow, UK 10/2003 - 03/2009

Selected publications

2024

  • Effects of face mask mandates on COVID-19 transmission in 51 countries: retrospective event study. Näher, Anatol-Fiete; Schulte-Althoff, Matthias; Kopka, Marvin; Balzer, Felix; Pozo-Martin, Francisco; others in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (2024). 10(1) e49307.
     
  • Measuring fairness preferences is important for artificial intelligence in health care. Näher, Anatol-Fiete; Krumpal, Ivar; Antão, Esther-Maria; Ong, Erika; Rojo, Marina; Kaggwa, Fred; Balzer, Felix; Celi, Leo Anthony; Braune, Katarina; Wieler, Lothar H; others in The Lancet Digital Health (2024). 6(5) e302-e304.
     

2023

  • Secondary data for global health digitalisation. Näher, Anatol-Fiete; Vorisek, Carina N; Klopfenstein, Sophie AI; Lehne, Moritz; Thun, Sylvia; Alsalamah, Shada; Pujari, Sameer; Heider, Dominik; Ahrens, Wolfgang; Pigeot, Iris; others in The Lancet Digital Health (2023). 5(2) e93-e101.
     

2020

  • Associations of suicide rates with socioeconomic status and social isolation: Findings from longitudinal register and census data. Näher, Anatol-Fiete; Rummel-Kluge, Christine; Hegerl, Ulrich in Frontiers in psychiatry (2020). 10 898.