Eva Rehfuess

Professor Eva Rehfuess is the Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research at the Institute of Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Pettenkofer School of Public Health at the Ludwig Maximilian University München (LMU Munich). She holds Bachelor and Master degrees in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health from Imperial College London. Working for the World Health Organization for nine years inspired her keen interest in evidence-based public health and her passion for global health. Much of Eva’s research relates to evaluating complex interventions in complex systems, in particular in relation to household air pollution, maternal and child health and non-communicable disease prevention in low-income countries. Eva is an Editor with Cochrane Public Health and a co-founder of Cochrane Public Health Europe. She heads the WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Based Public Health at the LMU Munich and, in part through this role, has been leading several rapid reviews of public health questions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, she is the German co-coordinator of the Collaboration for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Public Health in Africa, which focuses on healthcare and preventative research and on translating scientific evidence into policy in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.