Prof. Dr. Lothar Wieler

Short Bio

Lothar H. Wieler is Coordinator of the Digital Health Cluster, Chair Digital Global Public Health, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, University Potsdam, and Adjunct Professor at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.

As a leader in Global Public Health, among others as president of the Robert Koch-Institute he advised the German government on combating the COVID-19 pandemic. He has 40 years experience in infectious disease research, teaching and transfer, and nearly 30 years in leadership positions both in academia and the public sector. A veterinarian by training, he is microbiologist and global public health expert. His research is on pandemics and infectious diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans, known as zoonoses. In his work, initially he concentrated on infections caused by antibiotic multi-resistant bacteria (AMR) investigating transmission mechanisms and microevolution, as well as disease-causing factors and disease control strategies. Focusing his research on the molecular pathogenesis, genomic surveillance and evolution of infectious agents, he extended his work on public and global health, disease prevention and containment of pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential.

Wieler´s goal is to reduce health inequalities and disease burden by promoting disease prevention implementing digital precision public health, at the local, national and global level. Before taking the Chair of Digital Global Public Health at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute at the University of Potsdam in 2023, he served as president of Germany´s National Public-Health-Institute - the Robert Koch-Institute - for 8 years, following a full-professorship at the Freie University Berlin from 1998 to 2015. Lothar H. Wieler is member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Senator of Leopoldina´s Section Global Health, Member of the Council of Virchow Foundation, Co-Director of the Digital Health Partnership with Mount Sinai Hospital, and has been member and chair of various national and international commissions and advisory boards, among others the Strategic and Technical Advisory Board of Infectious Hazards (STAG-IH), WHO, the Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (WHO, UNEP, FAO, WHOA)  the Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Health Threats, or chair of the International Health Regulations Review Committee (IHR-RC), WHO.

Publications

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