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Working Groups
- Climate Change, Nutrition and Health
- Climate-smart Health Systems
- Data Sharing for Global Health
- Digital Global Health
- Disease Control in Disadvantaged Populations
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Transition
- Global Health Policies and Systems
- Health Economics and Health Financing
- Health Systems Research
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Vector Borne Diseases and Geo Health
- Research Projects
Apl. Prof. Dr. sc. hum. Volker Winkler
MSc biol.
LEADER OF RESEARCH GROUP "EPIDEMIOLOGY OF TRANSITION"
After his studies in biology Volker Winkler did his PhD within the DFG graduate program 793 ‘Epidemiology of communicable and chronic, non-communicable diseases and their interrelationships’. In 2015, he became Deputy Head of the unit ’Epidemiology and Biostatistics’ within the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health and one year later, he received the venia legendi in epidemiology. Since 2019, he is co-leading the crosscutting research group on non-communicable diseases and later he became leader of the research group ’Epidemiology of Transition’.
Considerations of the health and its determinants of population groups facing major changes are his main interests. He focuses on migrants, on non-communicable diseases and on the analysis of longitudinal data including the development of methods for the scientific analysis of register data. Generally, his research as well as his teaching activities focus on topics using quantitative methods. Furthermore, he is co-PI and the coordinator of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Global Health which aims to provide medical students with an opportunity to engage in global health research.
Education
2019 | Awarded adjunct professor (außerplanmäßiger Professor) for Epidemiology at the University of Heidelberg |
2016 | Venia legendi in Epidemiology, University of Heidelberg |
2008 | Dissertation Dr. sc. hum., Heidelberg Institute of Global Health |
2004 | Diploma in Biology, University of Heidelberg |
Teaching
since 2010 | Epidemiology ‘Epidemiologie, Medizinische Biometrie und Medizinische Informatik’ within the Curriculum Medicinale (HeiCuMed) at the University of Heidelberg |
since 2017 | Seminar ‘Beyond the t Test: Epidemiology and Biostatistics for Doctoral Students’ |
since 2018 | Global Health Journal Club at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health |
since 2018 | Coordinator: Heidelberg Graduate School of Global Health |
since 2019 | Short Course in International Health (tropEd) ‘Facing the NCD epidemic in low- and middle-income countries:from data to service delivery’ at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health |
2009-2017 | ‘Grundlagen der Epidemiologie und Statistik’ Bachelor in Health Education at the School of Education Heidelberg |
2012-2018 | ‘Module 4: Research foundations’ Master of Science in International Health at the University of Heidelberg |
2015-2018 | The Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling International Graduate School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (HBIGS): ‘Basic Statistics for Biologists or how to choose the appropriate statistical test’ |
Publications
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Working Groups
- Climate Change, Nutrition and Health
- Climate-smart Health Systems
- Data Sharing for Global Health
- Digital Global Health
- Disease Control in Disadvantaged Populations
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Transition
- Global Health Policies and Systems
- Health Economics and Health Financing
- Health Systems Research
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Vector Borne Diseases and Geo Health
- Research Projects

Contact Information
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