Prof Till Bärnighausen

Prof Till Bärnighausen

Population Health Researcher

Position: Director, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health

Specialization: Global Health Interventions, Health Systems, Population Health Research

Affiliation: Heidelberg University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Biography

Till 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 is Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the US and a Senior Faculty at the Wellcome Trust's Africa Health Research Institute (ARHI) in South Africa.

Key Research Areas

  • Causal impacts of large-scale global health interventions
  • HIV treatment and prevention
  • Childhood vaccination programs
  • Health system innovations and delivery
  • Applied population-based health research methods

Research Funding

Till has been the principal investigator on grants from a range large science funders, including:

  • US National Institutes of Health (including five R01 grants)
  • European Union and European Commission
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • Wellcome Trust
  • International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
  • Elton John AIDS Foundation
  • Clinton Health Access Initiative
  • Harvard, Rush Foundation, William F. Milton Fund
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • German Academic Exchange Service
  • International Development Research Centre Canada
  • USAID, WHO, UNAIDS and World Bank

Academic Achievements

  • More than 300 peer-reviewed articles published
  • Publications in Science, PNAS, Lancet, and PLOS Medicine
  • Work cited more than 17,000 times
  • h-index of 63
  • i10-index of 205

Academic Affiliations

  • Director, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
  • Adjunct Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Senior Faculty, Wellcome Trust's Africa Health Research Institute (ARHI), South Africa