Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Sabine Gabrysch

Previous Unit Head,  Epidemiology and Biostatistics

On June 1st, 2019, Sabine has been appointed Professor for Climate Change and Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Department head at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Sabine studied medicine and worked clinically in Sweden for some years before completing an MSc and then PhD in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In 2009, she joined the Institute of Global Health at Heidelberg University. She received a Rahel Goitein-Straus fellowship in 2010 and a Postdoctoral fellowship of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation in 2011. In 2012, she was awarded a Postdoctoral fellowship of the Daimler and Benz Foundation and a Margarete von Wrangell Habilitation fellowship.

Since 2013, Sabine has been leading a BMBF-funded Junior Scientist Group in Epidemiology and in 2014 she was appointed acting head of the Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and deputy head of the Institute of Global Health, a position she held until 2019. Her research interests include maternal and child health in low-income settings, infectious diseases, malnutrition and global environmental change. She enjoys working across disciplines and with NGOs.

 

Education

Positions

Projects

 Current

• Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM)
• Environment and health in arid regions
• Maternal and perinatal mortality in Ghana
• Impact and Determinants of Staphylococcus aureus colonization and infection
• Biochar-Urine Nutrient Cycling for Health
• Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP2)

 Completed

• New signal functions for routine and emergency newborn care
• Indicators and benchmarks for tracking progress towards safe motherhood
• The role of antimicrobial peptides in human skin infections
• Quality of antenatal care in Zambia, and influence of quality of care and distance on antenatal care use
• Distance to delivery care and neonatal mortality in Zambia and Malawi
• Distance to delivery care and service use in Zambia and Malawi

Publications

 Publication list