Fact File
AWARDS & HONORS
- honorary doctorate, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenborg, Sweden August 2005
- Leavell Lecture, World Federation of Public Health Associations. Brighton 2004
- First recipient of the Aventis Pasteur International Award awarded by the Canadian Public Health Association to recognize contributions to international health
- Andrija Stampar Award and medal for lifelong distinguished service to public health awarded by the Association of European Schools of Public Health (ASPHER)
- Salomon Neumann Medal for major contributions to social medicine, awarded by the German Society for Social Medicine
- Special Meritorious Gold Medal Award by the Province of Vienna, Austria for special
- contributions to the health of the citizens of Vienna
- Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Public Health Medicine, UK
- Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Lecture, Faculty of Public Health Medicine, U.K.
- VicHealth Award, an award by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Melbourne, Australia, for special contributions to Health Promotion.
- scholarship by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung for PhD studies.
Education
- educated in Germany and India, Abitur 1968
- Fachhochschule für Bibliothekswesen, Stuttgart , Germany 1968-1971
- University of Konstanz, Germany
- 1975 M.A. in Political Science and Sociology, University of Konstanz, Germany
Thesis: “Poverty and Social Policy: A Comparison between the U.S.A. and the F.R.G.” - 1981 Ph.D. in Political Science and Sociology, magna cum laude
Dissertation: “Women and Human Services: A Critique of Theories of Service Society.”
Yale University
- 1998 – 2004 Professor and Director of the Division of Global Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public health, Yale School of Medicine
- 2004 – Faculty member and lecturer
Fulbright program
- 2001 – 2002 Distinguished scholar leader, New Century Scholars Program, health in a Borderless World
Positions at the World Health Organization
- 2003 – 2004 Senior Advisor for Millennium development Goals and health
targets
Pan American Health Organization, Washington D.C. - 1994 - 1998 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
Director, Division of Health Promotion, Education, and Communication
WHO/HQ in Geneva, Switzerland - 1990 - 1994 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
Director, Department of Lifestyles and Health
WHO/Euro (Regional Office for Europe), Copenhagen, Denmark - 1985 - 1990 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
Regional Officer for Health Promotion
WHO/Euro, Copenhagen, Denmark - 1981 - 1984 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
Regional Officer for Health Education
WHO/Euro, Copenhagen, Denmark
