Professor Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch is an epidemiologist with over 25 years of experience in international research capacity building and mentoring in epidemiology, public and global health. She is the principal investigator of courses and capacity building training programmes such as in the ‘Capacity Strengthening of Transdisciplinary Education for Non-Communicable Disease Care in West Africa (CAPSTONE)’.

Her research focuses on the etiology, prevention and management of cardiovascular disease, double burden of malnutrition and co- and multimorbidity of communicable and non-communicable disease in a global context. This includes implementation science projects that aim to improve and scale-up care for hypertension and diabetes in Africa, Asia and Europe such as the ‘Integrating heart health in HIV care in South Africa (iHEART-SA)’, ‘Scaling-up diabetes and hypertension in vulnerable populations (SCUBY)’ or ‘Optimizing care pathways and quality of care for moderate-to-severe hypertension, diabetes and common mental health multimorbidity in Mozambique (PEN-CONNECT)’ initiatives.

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

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

LINKS:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerstin-klipstein-grobusch/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=klipstein-grobusch&sort=pubdate

https://www.globalhealth.eu/?r3d=global-health-magazine-2023