PD Dr. med. Wilm Quentin

Wilm Quentin is Prof. of Planetary & Public Health at the University of Bayreuth. He is leading the German West-African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention (G-WAC), is editor-in-chief of the Journal “Health Policy” and editor of the European Observatory’s Health Care Systems in Transition Series.

He has been a consultant for international Organisations (WHO EURO, WHO AFRO, World Bank), national governments (e.g. Ghana, Belgium, Slovenia) and other actors (national health insurance in Poland and South Korea).

Wilm is a medical doctor and holds an MSc in Health Policy, Planning & Financing (HPPF) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the London School of Economics (LSE). He studied medicine and political sciences in Würzburg, Munich, Madrid, Leipzig and Marburg. He worked almost 15 years at the Department of Health Care Management at the Technische Universität Berlin, where he received his formal lecturer qualification (Habilitation) in Public Health in 2017. He was a visiting fellow at the Institut National de Santé Publique in Abidjan and holds a Visiting Professor position at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana.