Bernhard Schwartländer

Dr Bernhard Schwartländer of Germany is the Chef de Cabinet of the World Health Organization (WHO). Since 2013, Dr Schwartländer has served as the WHO Representative to China. Before becoming the WHO Representative to China, he served as Director for Evidence, Policy and Innovation at the UNAIDS headquarters in Geneva and as the United Nations Country Coordinator on AIDS in Beijing, China. He has also held a number of senior international positions including the Director for Performance Evaluation and Policy at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Director of the WHO’s HIV Department, and Director of Evaluation and Strategic Information at UNAIDS. Prior to joining the United Nations, Dr Schwartländer was the Director of the national AIDS programme in Germany and the Director of the Division of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, the central biomedical and infectious disease research and reference laboratory of the Federal Ministry of Health, Germany. Dr Schwartländer has published widely in scientific journals and books and taught applied epidemiology in Berlin. He is a medical doctor and holds a doctorate in medical epidemiology. He received his education and professional training in Germany and the United States of America at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.