Bernt-Peter Robra

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Bernt-Peter Robra (born July 27, 1950 ) is a German epidemiologist and social medicine specialist .

Life

Bernt-Peter Robra studied medicine at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) until 1976 . As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation, he completed a course in public health care at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Master of Public Health . In the 1980s Robra worked scientifically primarily in the areas of epidemiology and social medicine , initially at the Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance, Cologne. Since 1985 Robra has been head of the epidemiology department in the epidemiology and social medicine department of the Hannover Medical School. From the winter semester 1992/93 until March 31, 2018, Robra was director of the Institute for Social Medicine and Health Economics at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg . In 1995 he received the Hufeland Prize for the German Mammography Study, a quality assurance project. In 2017, the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention awarded him the Salomon Neumann Medal. In his research work, the scientist is primarily concerned with quality assurance in health care.

At the end of the 2010s he was on the review board of the project "Reorganization of the hospital landscape: less is more", which recommends the closure of hospital locations.

Functions

From 2004 to 2010 Robra was President of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention , a member society of the Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de (project description)