Dr Anja Hauri

Since 2021, Dr. Anja M. Hauri has led the Digital Infectious Disease Surveillance Team in the Department of Epidemiology at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Germany. Prior to that, she headed the Department of Hygiene and the COVID-19 Management Team at the Gießen Public Health Office from 2020 to 2021. From 2001 to 2019, she led the Department of Epidemiology at the Hessian State Examination and Investigation Office. In 1999 and 2000, she worked for the WHO in India (STOP Polio) and Geneva (Safe Injection Global Network).

After studying medicine in Perugia, Italy, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, she specialized in Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at the universities of Gießen and Freiburg. She is an alumna of the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) and holds a Master’s degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

From 2011 to 2021, she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert Koch Institute.
Her research interests include digital surveillance of infectious diseases—especially carbapenem-resistant gram-negative pathogens—(social) determinants of pathogen transmission and antibiotic use, as well as infection prevention.

Her projects include the BMBF-funded DigiPREW project, which piloted SORMAS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the WOPPA project (Water-based Outbreak Prediction in Peri-urban Africa), funded by the Helmholtz Initiation and Networking Fund for Infection Research in Greifswald; the HIOH Seed Grant project SCienCe in Côte d'Ivoire; and the ALEAC project (Algorithms for the Detection of Outbreaks Based on Notification Data of Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Pathogens) in collaboration with Helmholtz AI, Helmholtz Munich, and the Hessian State Office for Health and Care (HLfGP).