Tobias Kurth

Since January 2016, Tobias Kurth is Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology as well as the director of the Institute of Public Health at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Together with Professor Elke Schaeffner (Berlin), Professor Antoine Flahaut (Paris) and Dr. Anneliese Depoux (Paris) he co-directs the Centre Virchow-Villermé. Furthermore Professor Kurth represents the Charité at the Executive Board of the Berlin School of Public Health. Tobias Kurth studied medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. After a residency in Neurology at the University Hospital in Essen, he went on to attend the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston from 1999 – 2003 where he graduated with a Doctor of Science in Epidemiology. Professor Kurth continued working at Harvard with faculty appointments at the Medical School as well as the School of Public Health. From 2009 to 2011 he worked as a Director of Research at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris. Since 2011 he has been based at the University of Bordeaux. In addition, in 2014, Kurth was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research interests lie in the field of neurovascular epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, and application of modern methods in population health science.