Epidemiology
Leader
Prof Dr Gérard Krause
With the help of epidemiology we analyze the impact of pathogens on the population. We can detect the occurrence of infectious diseases at an early stage and develop measures to protect people from infections. Furthermore, we can determine how effective certain measures are.

Gérard Krause is a medical doctor. After his doctoral degree 1993 in Heidelberg he worked in internal and tropical medicine, hospital hygiene and epidemiology in Germany and the USA.
Between 2000 and 2013 he was unit head and director at the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin. After his habilitation 2005 he became full professor at the Hanover Medical School in 2011 and department head at the Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig.
He is founder of a MSc-program in Berlin and a PhD-program in Hannover, coordinator of the „Translational Infrastructure Epidemiology“ of the German Centre for Infection Research, head of a competence unit and a study centre of German National Cohort and since 2016 also director at TWINCORE, Hannover.