Prof. Dr. Helmut Brand

Helmut Brand, Prof. Dr. med., Dr. h.c., 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, Germany, a WHO Collaborating Centre on Regional Health Policy. Reporting and Monitoring Health and the evaluation of Health Systems were major component of his work. 
For ten years he consulted the European Agency for Reconstruction regarding health reforms in the Balkan countries.
At Maastricht University European Integration in Health with a focus on Global Health Europe became an important part of his research.
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).
At European Union level he served on Expert Panel on “Investing in Health” (EXPH), as Leader on the “Health System Working Party” and for WHO Europe on the European Advisory Committee on Health Research (EACHR).
At Manipal University, India, he acted as Founding Director of the "Prasanna School of Public Health" which was rated second best Public Health Institution in India by the Shanghai Ranking five years after inauguration.