Methodological Advances in the Economic Evaluation of Infectious Disease Prevention - The Case of Chlamydial Screening and Meningococcal C Vaccination

Biographie de Robert Welte

The Author : Robert Welte graduated in 2004 from the University of Ulm with a Ph.D. in human biology with a focus on health economics. Currently, he works as a health economist at a pharmaceutical company in Munich. Previously, he conducted health economic research at the GSF-Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (2003-2004), at the University of Ulm (1998-1999 and 2002-2003) and at the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (1999-2002).
In the latter, he directly supported the Dutch Government in public health decisions. Since 1999, he has taught health economics at various national and international organizations and universities. He began graduate studies in Public Health at the University of Ulm in 1995, concentrating on Health Economics and Economics and graduated in 1997 with a Master degree. In addition, he has profound knowledge of biology and medicine gained via his studies at Wayne State University Medical School (USA) in 1993-1994 and the Department of Biology, University of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) in 1990-1993.
He graduated from Wayne State University in 1994 with a Master of Science in Basic Medical Sciences. During his studies he was awarded several national and international grants.