Timo Ulrichs

Prof. Dr. Dr. Timo Ulrichs is Head of the Department for Emergency Relief and Disaster Control at the Akkon Academy in Hannover. His main fields of interest are Health Science, Global Health and Disaster Control. Besides his lengthy list of important publications his main fields of investigations are tuberculosis, healthcare systems in transition, climate change and health as well as health in third world countries. He was born 1971 in Fulda, Germany, studied Medicine in Marburg and Berlin and spent some practical time abroad including in France, USA and South Africa. It was during his stay in South Africa that his interest in tuberculosis arose. In Berlin, Prof. Ulrichs was primary engaged in immunological aspects of tuberculosis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Infectious Biology and was simultaneously employed by the Charité, where he finished his residency as a Microbiologist and Infections-Epidemiologist. He continued his research as a Postdoc in Boston and New York. Since 2001, Prof. Ulrichs has actively participated in scientific cooperations with Eastern Europe, especially in Russia, Georgia and Moldova. These projects were the basis for the establishment 2006 of the Koch-Metschnikow-Forum (KMF), an NGO fostering the scientific collaboration with Eastern Europe which is now a partner of the Akkon Academia. Since 2006, he has worked as a public delegate at the Federal Ministry of Health for the Department of Epidemic Control and Influenza Pandemic Strategy. At the same time he received his Doctorate in Public Health at the Faculty of Health Science of the University of Bielefeld.