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Head of the TWINCORE Institute for Infectious Disease Epidemiology takes over a new department at the World Health Organisation in Geneva
On 1 March 2023, Prof. Gérard Krause will leave the TWINCORE - Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research and join the World Health Organization WHO. There he will take over a newly established department for "Surveillance Systems". At TWINCORE, he has led the Institute for Infectious Disease Epidemiology since 2016. Krause also headed the Department of Epidemiology at the HZI in Braunschweig and held affiliations with the Hannover Medical School (MHH), the German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF) and the NAKO Health Study.
"With his Institute for Infection Epidemiology, Gérard Krause has added an important field to TWINCORE's research portfolio," says Prof. Ulrich Kalinke, Executive Director of TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research in Hannover. "In addition to his research activities, he was also an important member of the crisis team at TWINCORE and played a key role in ensuring that our centre remained able to act throughout the corona pandemic. We are very grateful to him for this. We wish him every success in his new tasks at WHO."
A comprehensive news item with detailed background information on Gérard Krause can be found on the website of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research:
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