Bernhard SCHWARTLÄNDER

Dr Schwartländer worked previously as Assistant Director General and Chef de Cabinet at the WHO, as well as the WHO Representative in China. He is a medical doctor and holds a doctorate in medical epidemiology. He received his education and professional training in Germany and the US at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

Prior to these assignments, Dr Schwartländer held a number of senior international positions including the Director of Evidence, Policy, and Innovation at UNAIDS, Director for Performance Evaluation and Policy at the Global Fund (GFATM); and the Director of WHO’s HIV Department. In 2000, Dr Schwartländer undertook a special assignment at the World Bank to perform economic analyses on the cost and impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the responses to it. Prior to joining the United Nations, Dr Schwartländer was the Director of the national AIDS program in Germany and the Director of the Division of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Robert Koch-Institute in Berlin, the German Centers for Disease Control. 

Dr Schwartländer has published widely in scientific journals and books and taught applied epidemiology and Health Diplomacy in Berlin. He brings extensive experience in development policies as well as infectious disease epidemiology and programming at global and country levels.