Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Junghanss
Scientific Staff
(Department Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine)
Medical/Professional background
- since 2018
Research fellow of the Section of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital
- 2003 – 2018
Head of the Section Clinical Tropical Medicine
- 1997 – 2003
senior registrar at Section Clinical Tropical Medicine
- 1994 – 1995
Sabbatical at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. MSc Course Public Health in Developing Countries, University of London; MSc thesis: ”Synthesising mathematical modelling, field epidemiology, clinical and laboratory sciences in lymphatic filariasis”
- 1991 – 1997
Senior Registrar at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basle
- 1988 – 1991
SHO at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (SwissTPH), Basle
- 1986 – 1988
SHO at St. Joseph’s Hospital Anchal / South India. Visiting doctor at the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, and at the Leprosy Hospital, Chettipatty / South India.
Commendations
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande) awarded for Tropical Medicine 2016
Offices and posts held
- since 2018
Member of the WHO Snakebite envenoming (SBE) Working Group
- since 2016
Chair of the WHO Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis (WHO-IWGE)
- since 2014
Editor of Manson’s Tropical Diseases, 23rd ed (2014), Editors: Farrar J, Hotez P, Junghanss T, Kang G, Lalloo D, White NJ
- 2010 – 2011
President of the Federation of the European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH)
- since 1996
Editor of the Journal "Tropical Medicine & International Health”
Member of the clinical guideline committee of the German Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health (DTG e.V.)
