Scientist, Research ManagerSpecial Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR)
Johannes Sommerfeld, Drphil, MPH is a health social scientist and research manager at the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Over the past 25 years, Sommerfeld has conducted research, taught, published and coordinated applied social science for public health research on a number of critical social issues in infectious diseases and their control, including access, equity, globalization, conflict, risk and vulnerability, human rights and gender. Prior to joining TDR in 2000, he held research associate appointments with Heidelberg University Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany and the Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambrdige, MA, USA. He is currently developing a Social Enterprise Innovation research initiative focusing on infectious diseases of poverty.