„In the field of cli­ma­te and health, we have to recon­cei­ve the role of health pro­fes­sio­nals, not least as citi­zens and sci­en­tists, to enga­ge in sus­tainable medi­ci­ne and pre­ven­ti­on-ori­en­ted poli­tics — to make health­ca­re fit for today’s and tomorrow’s chal­lenges.“

Down­load

Rese­arch Asso­cia­te

Mini CV

• At CPHP sin­ce Octo­ber 2022
• Sin­ce 2022 Public Health Stu­dies at Karo­lins­ka Insti­tu­tet Stock­holm
• 2017–2022 doc­to­ra­te stu­dent and sin­ce 2021 rese­arch asso­cia­te at AG Glo­bal and Pla­ne­ta­ry Health, Mar­tin-Luther-Uni­ver­si­ty Hal­le-Wit­ten­berg
• 2020 Recei­ved his medi­cal licen­se, Uni­ver­si­ty of Leip­zig
• 2015–2018 Anthro­po­lo­gy and Ara­bic Stu­dies, Uni­ver­si­ty of Leip­zig
• Scho­lar­ships from the Roland Ernst Foun­da­ti­on for Public Health and the Ger­man Aca­de­mic Exch­an­ge Ser­vice 

Pro­fi­le

Dr. rer. medic. Niko­laus Mez­ger is a rese­arch asso­cia­te at the Cent­re for Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Poli­cy (CPHP). In his rese­arch, he focu­ses on oppor­tu­ni­ties for action rela­ted to cli­ma­te chan­ge adapt­a­ti­on, miti­ga­ti­on and trans­for­ma­ti­on in the Ger­man health care sys­tem. Pre­vious­ly, he work­ed as a rese­ar­cher in the Glo­bal and Pla­ne­ta­ry Health group at Mar­tin Luther Uni­ver­si­ty Hal­le-Wit­ten­berg, focu­sing on can­cer epi­de­mio­lo­gy and can­cer care rese­arch in sub-Saha­ran Afri­ca, and field rese­arch in Nami­bia and Repu­blic of Con­go. In addi­ti­on, he has been vol­un­tee­ring in various pro­jects of the Ger­man Alli­ance on Cli­ma­te Chan­ge and Health (KLUG) e.V. sin­ce 2020. Niko­laus tea­ches at seve­ral uni­ver­si­ties, inclu­ding Hal­le, Leip­zig, Munich and Karo­lins­ka Insti­tu­tet in Stock­holm.

CPHP-Publi­ca­ti­ons