Walter Kofler

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Walter Kofler (born May 27, 1945 in Imst , Tyrol) is an Austrian doctor. He taught at the Medical University of Innsbruck and has retired since 2010 .

education

Walter Kofler studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck, doctorate to Dr. univ. med. and completed his habilitation in 1976 for the subject of hygiene ("associate professor"). He was director of the Social Medicine Section - School of Public Health at the Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck, and deputy head of the department. There will probably not be a successor as the institute will be closed.

In 2014 he was accepted as an external member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Current research focus

  • Public health research: Complex understanding of the effects of traffic-related environmental impacts on health, illness and the need for recreation and how they can be influenced
  • Philosophy of Science: Extended View model for a theory of the health of a person as a social being. Striving for the “convergence project” to bring the different natural and non-natural sciences closer together - as a basis for the deduction of health-related statements

Memberships

  • Vice President of the Austrian Nature Conservation Union, since 1971
  • Vice President of the Austrian Environment Association, since 1973
  • Member of the International Board of the International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA) since 1992
  • Senator of the Academia Alpina Medicinae Integralis, Breganzona CH, since 1992

Expert activity in political advisory bodies

  • Member of the Tyrolean regional planning advisory board for recreation areas and environmental protection law 1970–1985
  • Member of the ecosystem research project team of the Austrian Federal Government 1974–1980
  • Sustainability Forum of the Austrian Federal Government - General Forum (since 2002)
  • Chairman of the working group “Strategies and Concepts for Economy and Trade” - the Austrian Federal Government, National Environmental Plan
  • Advisor to WHO on epidemiology and environmental issues
  • NEHAP program: Health and Transport
  • Expert in the preparation of the WHO Conferences of European Health and Environment Ministers in London 1999 and Budapest 2004
  • Expert “Working Group Sustainability and Social Inclusion”, Forum Sustainability Austrian Federal Government
  • Supreme Sanitary Council: Member of the Public Health Commission

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel overview ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Innsbruck Medical University, accessed December 18, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.i-med.ac.at
  2. ↑ APA: Social medicine professorship in Innsbruck not filled In: Der Standard. from October 15, 2010
  3. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Walter Kofler. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 24, 2015 (Russian).

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personal data
SURNAME Kofler, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Imst , Tyrol, Austria