Since 2018, Judith von Heusinger has been working for the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation, the largest medical funding foundation in Germany. She is responsible for the humanitarian funding area, which supports medical programs in low-income countries. She is trained as a sociologist and completed her PhD with a thesis on health programs in Cambodia and Kyrgyzstan. Before that, she was a research fellow at the Center for Conflict Studies at University of Marburg/Germany and worked for an NGO in the field of victim protection in human trafficking.