Johannes Schnitzler

Dr Johannes Schnitzler is a Medical Doctor, Epidemiologist and Master of Science in Medical Informatics working at the Department for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence Systems. Johannes is working on systems and tools supporting public health intelligence activities and is currently focusing on the coordination of the development and enhancement of the EIOS system. Johannes has been with WHO since 2003 working on the evaluation, development and implementation of surveillance systems with a focus on rapid detection, automated analysis and reporting. He has supported for many years public health intelligence activities at global level including threat detection, risk assessment, verification and rapid communications and has participated in the response to several large-scale outbreaks and pandemics. Johannes graduated from Charité medical school, did his field epidemiology training (EPIET/FETP) at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and studied medical informatics at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.