Heiko Becher studied statistics at the Universities of Dortmund, Germany, and Sheffield, England, and received a diploma in Statistics in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics 1987 from Dortmund University. In 1993, he habilitated in Epidemiology and Medical Biometry at Heidelberg University.

Projects & Grants

NAKO Gesundheitsstudie (German National Cohort), funded by BMBF and others

Other scientific projects & initiatives

Heiko Becher is one of the founding scientists of the German National Cohort (NAKO Gesundheitsstudie), the largest German prospective cohort study with 205.000 participants. He was PI for the study center Hamburg and Co-PI for the study center Mannheim. Among the larger studies he performed are investigations on mortality patterns and risk factors for childhood mortality in African countries where he had close collaborations with the Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (HDSS) site in Nouna, Burkina Faso and with the INDEPTH network headquarter in Accra, Ghana. he also performed several epidemiological case-control and cohort studies on occupational, lifestyle and genetic factors for various diseases, such as cancers, stroke and others, as well as studies on mortality and incidence patterns of migrants in Germany.

Publications

Pubmed profile

ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002- 8808-6667