Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch

Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, MSc, MSc, PhD, is Associate Professor and Vice-Chair Global Health at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Department of Global Public Health and Bioethics, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands and Visiting Professor at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

She is an epidemiologist and nutrition scientist with over 25 years of experience in international research capacity building in epidemiology and public health including in  sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). She is the  principal investigator and collaborator in capacity building training programmes and courses in epidemiology, biostatistics, public and global health such as the CAPSTONE (Capacity Strengthening of Transdisciplinary Education for Non-Communicable Disease Care in West Africa) Consortium.

She leads the Julius Center’s Global Health research on cardiovascular and cardiometabolic disease related to (i) urbanisation and migration; (ii) double burden of malnutrition; and (iii) communicable and non-communicable co-and multimorbidity.  She is the Utrecht based principal investigator on several implementation science projects that aim to improve and scale-up care for hypertension and diabetes in Africa, Asia and Europe such as the iHEART-SA (Integrating heart health in HIV care in South Africa), SCUBY (Scaling-up diabetes and hypertension in vulnerable populations) or MRC-PaLS project (Patient-led support groups in the management of hypertension and diabetes in low-resource settings). She has supervised and mentored over 100 Master, PhD and postdoctoral fellows and published over 300 peer-reviewed papers.

Academic and societal activities include memberships of institutional committees and academic/research networks. Amongst others, she is Editor of the World Health Federations’ scientific journal Global Heart, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the STOP-NCD NIHR Global Health Research Center, and Executive Board Member of the European Global Health Research Institutes Network (EGHRIN).

In her current position as Associate Professor and Vice-Chair Global Health her focus is on the development of global health research and capacity building (www.globalhealth.eu) at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.