Till Barnighausen MD, ScD, MSc

Till Bärnighausen is Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Faculty Affiliate at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

He is Alexander von Humboldt University Professor at Heidelberg University, Germany’s oldest University, and Director of the Heidelberg Institute of Public Health (HIPH) in the Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University. He also serves as Senior Faculty at the Wellcome Trust’s Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Till’s research focuses on developing and testing population health interventions that address large healthcare needs in poor countries, in particular for HIV and other chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. He focuses on interventions that can be implemented in resource-poor settings, such as community health worker initiatives and novel interventions in nurse-led primary care clinics.