Professor Verina Wild

Verina Wild is Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of the “Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society” at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She has a research focus on public health ethics, health justice and vulnerabilities. She is fascinated by the relation between the individual, the population and the social and environmental structures. In her work she discusses this relation in various areas, such as climate change, migration, social gradient in health, (global) health inequalities. The Medical Faculty at the University of Augsburg has a research focus on Environmental Health Sciences, and Verina Wild is currently building a research network on Climate, Health, Ethics and Justice. In her teaching, she includes environmental health ethics and justice also into the medical curriculum. Verina was trained as a physician. She is the co-founder of the international public health ethics working group, which is associated to the German Medical Ethics Association (AEM) and the German Society for Public Health (DGPH), and she is Associate Editor of the journal Public Health Ethics. She is or has been advisory member of various institutional and governmental bodies, such as the German Physician Association, European Council, WHO.