About this portfolio / Über dieses Portfolio
This portfolio includes 50 facets of my work life, incl. work positions, work fields, projects, teaching, and consulting.
In retrospect, most of my work can be structured into 3 topical clusters:
- “Human Ecology and Health” cluster
- “Sustainable Urban & Regional Health” cluster
- “Health Assessments” cluster
My qualifying work / Meine Ausbildung
- 1998 Habilitation, adjunct prof
- 1985-1989 Graduate studies of Public Health & Epidemiology
- 1979 Medical dissertation
- 1973-1974 Internship; Medical Approbation
- 1966-1972 Medical studies
My work positions / Meine beruflichen Positionen
- 2013ff U Bielefeld: “Building Bridges” project
- 2012 LZG.NRW Co-heading
- 2008-2011 LIGA.NRW: Dep. Prevention & Innovation
- 1995-2008 Lögd NRW: Environmental Health Dep.
- 1989-1994 Idis: Special unit for health planning
- 1981-1985 Hamburg Health Department: Epi Division
- 1975-1981 UKE Hamburg: Biometrics & Epi
- 1974-1975 Military service, consc. objection
My work fields / Meine Arbeitsfelder
- 2009ff Impact Assessments / Family
- 2005ff Health assessments
- 1997ff Health modeling and prognostics
- 1997ff Visualization
- 1995ff Quantitative Risk Assessment
- 1993ff Governance, Integrated policy programs
- 1988-1991 From Almanac to Episource
- 1986ff Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
- 1984ff (Human) Ecology, environment & health
- 1981-1985 Hamburg Cancer Registry
- 1980ff Urban and Regional Health
- 1980ff Epidemiologic studies
- 1969ff Computer literacy, Inf management
Projects I have led (selection) / Von mir geleitete Projekte (Auswahl)
- 2014ff Health assessments, with EUPHA sections
- 2013ff Project Urban health – Building bridges
- 1999-2002 NRW-funded project „Agenda 21 and health“
- 1995-2002 Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA)
- 1994-1996 EC co-funded project EHIM
- 1992-1995 BMFT-funded HIA/GVP project
- 1989-2002 Noxious Agents Information System (NIS)
Project participations / Ausgewählte Projektbeteiligungen
- 2008-2014 EC co-funded project RAPID
- 2004-2007 EC co-funded WHO project ENHIS
- 2004-2007 EC co-funded project HIA effectiveness
- 2004-2005 UBA-funded project LA21 Environment and Health
- 2002-2005 UBA-funded project Xprob
- 2001-2004 EC co-funded project EPHIA
- 1981-1985 Hamburg School Health Study
My teaching / Meine Lehre
My consulting
Other activities / Weiteres
- 1999-2007 Series Environment and Health materials
- 1998-2006 Environmental Health newsletter
- 1996ff Japan connection
- 1990ff Environmental health group, University of Bielefeld
- 1984ff California connection
- 1982ff (Co-)Initiation of working groups etc.
- 1977ff Professional associations.
(Rev. 30 Jun 2026)
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