Matthias Egger MSc, FFPH, DTM & H

Prof. Matthias Egger heads the Institute of Social & Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at University of Bern. He is a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s governing council and has served on several WHO, NIH, Wellcome Trust and UK Medical Research Council guidelines or review panels. He is a member of the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting of Trials) working group and the convenor of STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology).

His research is concerned both with substantive and methodological issues in clinical epidemiology and global health, with a focus on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, and cancer. Overarching interests include the interface between biology and epidemiology, inequities in health and ‘big’ research questions that are best addressed inlarge collaborative studies. Methods include meta-analysis, and particularly meta-analysis of individual patient data, clinical trials and analyses of large cohort studies.

Prof. Egger is the PI or co-PI of several large research projects, including the NIH funded International epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA), the Wellcome Trust funded Ebola vaccine trial in Guinea, the Swiss HIV Cohort Study and the Swiss National Cohort.