Guenter Froeschl, 17 November 2020
Universities play an essential role in COVID-19 control strategies, as they are providing a direct link between patient care, research and public health measures. Political decisions have to be based on evidence, and we are able to contribute to the generation of patient centered evidence.
LMU Munich
Guenter Froeschl is a medical doctor and specialist in infectious diseases and tropical medicine. He works as Scientific Director and Head of the teaching and training unit at the division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at LMU Munich (DIDTM). At DIDTM he was, among other things, responsible for establishing of the first PhD programme at the Medical Faculty of the LMU, the PhD Programme Medical Research – International Health. He is board member of the Center for International Health (CIH) at LMU and of the humanitarian organization Médecins du Monde, Germany. He has been employed by different humanitarian organizations for missions mostly on the African continent, dealing with health system strengthening, infectious disease management programs and working with refugee populations in different settings.
He is member of the CAS Research Focus “Global Health”.