Member profile
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte
Building/room: Grazer Straße 4 (GRA4) A 3040
Phone: +49 421 218-68820
Current Activities & Functions
- Professor of Social Epidemiology at Faculty 11 Human and Health Sciences at the University of Bremen
- Head of the Department of Social Epidemiology at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) at the University of Bremen
- Managing Director of IPP
- Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Inequalities
- Appointed Member of the "Environmental Public Health" Commission of the Federal Ministry of Health at the Robert Koch Institute in cooperation with the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt – UBA)
- Appointed Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the AdNEB project of the German Environment Agency
- Appointed Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Centre for Health Education
- Chairperson of the Expert Commission of the Master's Degree Programme in Epidemiology
- Chairperson of the Master's Examination Board for Epidemiology
Membership in Professional Associations
Current Positions
Since 2019
Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Inequalities
Since 2014
Managing Director of the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Germany
Since 2013
Full Professor of Social Epidemiology and Head of the Department of Social Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, Faculty of Human and Health Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany
Previous Positions
2011 – 2013
Head of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Munich, Germany
2004 – 2011
Senior Scientist, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim and Munich, Department of Environmental Medicine, Germany
2002 – 2004
Assistant Professor at the University of Ulm, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Germany
1999 – 2002
Scientist at the GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
1998 – 1999
Research Assistant at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Oberschleißheim, Germany
1992 – 1998
Research Assistant at the University Children's Hospital Tübingen, Germany
Selected professional activities
Since 2018
Member of the board of the Bremen state association for health (Landesvereinigung für Gesundheit Bremen e.V.)
Since 2016
Appointed member of the Commission on Environmental Medicine and Environmental Public Health of the Federal Ministry of Health at the Robert Koch-Institute in collaboration with the German Environment Agency
Since 2009
Invited expert on social inequalities in environmental health, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Bonn, Germany
2008 - 2018
Member of the board of the German Public Health Association (DGPH)
Since 2002
Member of the extended board of the German Association for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP),
Spokeswoman of the working group on gender-specific health research
Academic Background
2008
Teaching licence in the field of epidemiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
2006
Postdoctoral lecture qualification ("Habilitation") for Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ulm, Germany
1999
Master of Public Health, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
1996
PhD (Human Biology / Theoretical Medicine)
Faculty of Medicine, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
1991
Diploma Human Biology / Theoretical Medicine, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany