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Till Bärnighausen, MD, MSc, MSc, ScD

Alexander von Humboldt University Professor
University of Heidelberg

Till Bärnighausen is the Alexander von Humboldt University Professor, and director of the Heidelberg Institute of Public Health at the University of Heidelberg; and a senior faculty member at the Africa Health Research Institute (ARHI) in South Africa. Bärnighausen is a population health researcher who focuses on three areas of research: (i) establishing the causal impacts of large-scale global health interventions—such as HIV treatment, HIV prevention, and childhood vaccination—on health, economic and social outcomes; (ii) identifying and testing innovations to improve the delivery of global health interventions through public-sector health systems, and (iii) developing new methods for applied population-based health research.