Prof. Dr. Helmut Brand

Helmut Brand, Prof. Dr. med., Dr. h.c. mult., MSc, DLSHTM 

Helmut Brand is Jean Monnet Professor of European Public Health and was head of the Department of International Health at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. 

He studied Medicine in Düsseldorf and Zürich and holds a Master in Community Medicine from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and London School of Economics. Prof. Brand is a specialist in Public Health Medicine and holds honorable doctorates from Sofia Medical University and Tirana Medical University. 

After working in several Health Authorities and Ministries of Health he was Founding Director of the Public Health Institute of North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW), Germany a WHO Collaborating Centre on Regional Health Policy. Reporting and Monitoring Health, Health Literacy and the evaluation of Health Systems were major component of his work. Since than European Integration in Health with a focus on Global Health Europe became also important.

He led the oldest Cancer Registry in the world (City State of Hamburg) and the second biggest worldwide (Cancer Registry NRW).

For ten years he consulted the European Agency for Reconstruction regarding health reforms in the Balkan countries.

He is past-president of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) and past-president of the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG).

As policy advisor he served on the Expert Panel on “Investing in Health” (EXPH), as member of the European Core Health Indicators (ECHI) and the European Community Health Indicators Monitoring (ECHIM), as Leader of the “Health System Working Party” of the European Commission and on the European Advisory Committee on Health Research (EACHR) of WHO Europe.

At Manipal University, India, he acted as Founding Director of the "Prasanna School of Public Health" from 2017 on which was rated second best School of Public Health in India already in 2023.

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Helmut Brand
Department of International Health
Maastricht University
P.O.Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands

Email: Helmut.Brand@MaastrichtUniversity.NL

visiting address:

Duboisdomein 30

6229 GT  Maastricht