Till Bärnighausen
Preventive Cardiology
Public Library of Science
About
Till Bärnighausen works in Preventive Cardiology affiliated with Public Library of Science.
Till Bärnighausen is the Alexander von Humboldt University Professor and Director of the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health at Heidelberg University. He serves as Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Senior Faculty at the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Medicine and a C. Bernard Lown Visiting Scholar in Cardiovascular Health at Harvard.
Research focus
Cardiovascular Disease Burden EstimationGlobal Hypertension EpidemiologyStroke Risk Factors and PreventionCardiovascular Health Interventions in Low-Resource SettingsEpidemiological Analysis of Heart Disease Risks
Impact
1,101 pubs · 164,980 cites · h-index 130
Training
ScD in Population and International Health
Harvard University
2008
MSc in Financial Economics
University of London (SOAS)
2006
MD
University of Heidelberg
1998
Affiliations
Work Experience
Director, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
Heidelberg University · 2016 - Present
Adjunct Professor of Global Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health · 2009 - Present
Senior Faculty
Africa Health Research Institute · 2004 - Present
Editor-in-Chief
PLOS Medicine · 2022 - Present