Prof. Till Bärnighausen

Till Bärnighausen is the Alexander von Humboldt University Professor, and director of the Heidelberg Institute of Public Health at the University of Heidelberg. He is also a senior faculty member at the Africa Health Research Institute (ARHI) in South Africa and Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 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. Till has been the principal investigator on grants from a range of large science funders and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles