Birgit Greiner

Dr Birgit Greiner is a Senior Research Fellow with the MENTUPP project (Mental Health Promotion and Intervention in Occupational Settings) at the School of Public Health, University College Cork, Ireland. MENTUPP is a European Commission-funded research project involving 17 international partners. She recently retired from her posts as Senior Lecturer and Academic Director of MSc Occupational Health. Her main ambition has been to generate sound research evidence on how to design physically and psychologically safe workplaces and how to support positive mental health in workers. She extensively published and taught on the role of psychosocial work characteristics on health and illness, in particular mental health, musculoskeletal disorders, and cardiovascular problems. Her particular expertise lies in the assessment of psychosocial working conditions by observational job analysis. She is further interested in implementation science, i.e., providing evidence-based good practice guidance to researchers and practitioners in designing, implementing, and evaluating policy and workplace health interventions. Dr Greiner received a Dr rer med Habil in Epidemiology from the University of Greifswald, a PhD in Epidemiology and a Master of Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley and a Psychology degree (Dipl. Psych.) from the Technical University, Berlin.