Andreas Reis

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NationalityGermany
Alma materUniversity of Cologne
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  • Scientist

Andreas Alois Reis (PD, MD, MSc) is Co-Lead of the Health Ethics & Governance Unit in the Research for Health Department in the Division of the Chief Scientist at WHO in Geneva, Switzerland.

After medical studies and practice in internal medicine in Germany, France and Chile, he pursued studies in health economics and obtained a post-graduate degree in biomedical ethics.

His main area of work is public health ethics, with a focus on ethical aspects of infectious diseases and outbreaks of emerging pathogens. Other topics include the ethics of public health surveillance, health research, and big data and artificial intelligence.[1]

He has lectured and organized trainings for WHO in more than 50 countries and is serving on the editorial boards of Public Health Ethics and Monash Bioethics Review. He has published widely and is the co-editor of four books on bioethics and public health ethics.


He is an external faculty member of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) teaching Ethics in Medicine.

Early life and education

Reis was born in Pfreimd, Germany, to Alois Reis and Anita Lang, and has fond memories of his childhood and humble upbringing. He recalls however the grief from remaining an only child after the loss of the family's first-born, daughter Maria, who died mere days after birth due to health complications, and his mother's health being too frail for another pregnancy.

Throughout his school years, he consistently achieved high marks and was awarded a scholarship from Germany's largest and most prestigious scholarship foundation, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.

After 18 months of civil service at the hospital, Andreas Reis enrols in medical studies at the University of Regensburg, University of Heidelberg, Université de Montpellier and in Santiago de Chile. In 2001, Reis was awarded a Doctor of Medicine (Dr. med.) from the University of Heidelberg.

Until 2003, he was a junior doctor and assistant physician at the Clinic I for Internal Medicine at the University of Cologne. He also graduated as MSc in health economics from the University of Cologne.

Ethics at WHO

In 2003, he moved to Geneva to create an Ethics division at the WHO, alongside colleagues such as Dr Marie-Charlotte Bouësseau and Dr Nikola Biller-Andorno, becoming the Medical Officer im Department of Ethics and Social Determinants of Health at WHO's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Personal life

Andreas Reis is happily married and has three children.

Books

  • Reis Andreas, Frewer Andreas, Bergemann Lutz (1 Feb. 2016). Global Ethics and Universal Health Coverage : Human Rights in Practice. Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann.
  • Reis Andreas, Frewer Andreas, Bergemann Lutz (1 Nov. 2014) Gute Oder Vergütete Behandlung? Ethische Fragen Der Gesundheitsökonomie. Königshausen & Neumann.
  • Frewer Andreas, Reis Andreas, Schmidhuber Martina (2021). Pandemien Und Ethik Entwicklung - Probleme - Lösungen. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. ‌

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