CV

• Born on 21 February 1963 in Düren.

• 1982 to 1989
  Studied medicine at RWTH Aachen University, University of Düsseldorf, University of Texas at San Antonio (Dr. med.)

• 1985 to 1990
  Doctorate (Dr. med.) at the Nuclear Medicine Institute, Jülich Nuclear Research Centre 

• 1989 to 1990
  Master of Public Health (MPH) at the Harvard School of Public Health, specialising in epidemiology, health policy and management

• 1990 to 1992
  Master of Science in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health

• 1992 to 1995
  Doctor of Science in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health (supervisors Professor Marc Roberts and Professor Amartya Sen)

• from 1996
  Visiting lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston

• from 1998
  Head of the Institute for Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology (IGKE) at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne

• 1999 to 2005
  Member of the German Council of Economic Experts on the Assessment of Developments in Health Care

• 2003
  Member of the Commission for Sustainability in Financing of the Social Security Systems (Rürup Commission), Member of the Programme Commission of the SPD Cologne

• 2004
  Member of the Working Group on Citizens’ Insurance of the SPD Party Executive

• since 2005
  Member of the Bundestag, on leave as Head of the Institute for Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne 

• from 2008
  Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health

• 2009 to 2013
  Health policy spokesperson of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag

• 2013 to 2019
  Vice Chair of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag

• since December 2021
  Federal Minister of Health