Dr. Rüdiger Krech
Born (1964-06-09) 9 June 1964
Alma materBielefeld University
Occupations

Rüdiger Krech (born 9 June 1964) is a German public health expert who currently works as a senior official at the World Health Organization (WHO). An advocate for universal health coverage, social determinants of health, Health in All Policies and social protection, he is the Director of Health Promotion at WHO.

Life and career

Early career

Krech attended Bielefeld University in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany where he obtained his Master of Public Health (MPH) and Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degrees. In 1992, he joined the WHO's Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he held various positions in the areas of ageing, health promotion, health policies and health systems. In 2003, he joined the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) where he worked as the Head of the Social Protection Section and the director of the Social Security Program in India.[1][2] In 2005, together with colleagues from the WHO and the International Labour Office, Krech formed the WHO-ILO-GTZ Consortium on Social Health Insurance, a collaborative effort to extend health protection coverage in developing countries.[3] As a member of the German delegation in both the executive board of the WHO and the World Health Assembly between 2004 and 2009, he was also a chief negotiator of the resolution on sustainable health financing, universal coverage and social health insurance, passed in 2005.[4]

World Health Organization

In October 2009, Krech returned to the World Health Organization, this time working at their headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland as the Director for Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, leading about 70 scientists and health professionals in developing innovative programs in those areas.[5] In 2010, he was also appointed as a professor of global health at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.[1] He was part of the organizing committee for the World Conference on the Social Determinants of Health that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 19–21 October 2011. The conference lead to the Rio Political Declaration, which was a commitment from member states to reduce health inequality and promote development.[6]

In November 2013, he became the organization's Director for Universal Health Coverage and Health Systems at the office of the Assistant Director-General. He oversees its work in providing safe and effective medicines and health technologies, integrated people-centred health services, health financing and governance, health workforce, knowledge management, information, policy and research.[1]

In 2019, he was appointed as Director for Health Promotion at the World Health Organization. He oversees WHO‘s work on tobacco and alcohol control, physical activity, health law and fiscal policies for health, healthy settings, health literacy, community engagement and wellbeing.

Selected publications

  • 2010: "Implications of the Adelaide Statement on Health in All Policies" (with N. Valentine, L. T. Reinders and D. Albrecht). Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Volume 88, Number 10[7]
  • 2011: "Tuberculosis: Still a Social Disease" (with M. Raviglione). International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease; Volume 15, Supplement 2[8]
  • 2011: "Action on Social Determinants of Health Is Essential to Tackle Non-Communicable Diseases" (with K. Rasanathan). Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Volume 89, Number 10[9]
  • 2011: "Social Determinants of Health: Practical Solutions to Deal with a Well-Recognized Issue". Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Volume 89, Number 10[10]
  • 2011: "Healthy Public Policies: Looking Ahead". Health Promotion International; Volume 26, Supplement 2, pages 268–272[11]
  • 2013: "Health Workforce Brain Drain: From Denouncing the Challenge to Solving the Problem" (with G. Cometto, K. Tulenko and A. S. Muula). PLOS Medicine; Volume 10, Issue 9[12]
  • 2013: "Human resources for universal health coverage: from evidence to policy and action" (with M. Sales, M. P. Kieny and C. F. Etienne). Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Volume 91, Number 11[13]
  • 2014: "Globale Gesundheitssteuerung und globale Steuerung für mehr Gesundheit". Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik; Volume 68, pages 10–13[14]
  • 2014: "The 2014 Ebola Outbreak: Ethical Use of Unregistered Interventions" (with M. P. Kieny). Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Volume 92, Number 9[15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Academia meets Industry" (PDF). Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. 9 May 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Rüdiger Krech". International Summit of Cooperatives. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Extending Social Protection in Health: Developing Countries' Experiences, Lessons Learnt and Recommendations" (PDF). WHO-ILO-GTZ Consortium on Social Health Insurance. 2007. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Sustainable health financing, universal coverage and social health insurance". World Health Organization. 2005. Archived from the original on November 18, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Panel Discussion - About the Speakers". United Nations in India. Archived from the original on September 17, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Meeting Report World Conference on the Social Determinants of Health" (PDF). World Health Organization. October 2011. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  7. ↑ Krech, Rüdiger; Valentine, Nicole; Reinders, Lina Tucker; Albrecht, Daniel (October 2010). "Implications of the Adelaide Statement on Health in All Policies". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. 88 (10): 720. doi:10.2471/BLT.10.082461. PMC 2947051. PMID 20931052. Archived from the original on May 27, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  8. ↑ Raviglione, Mario; Krech, Rüdiger (June 2010). "Tuberculosis: Still a Social Disease". International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 15 (suppl. 2): S6-8. doi:10.5588/ijtld.11.0158. PMID 21740652.
  9. ↑ Rasanathan, Kumanan; Krech, Rüdiger (October 2011). "Action on Social Determinants of Health Is Essential to Tackle Non-communicable Diseases". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. 89 (10): 775–776. doi:10.2471/BLT.11.094243. PMC 3209983. PMID 22084516. Archived from the original on September 3, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  10. ↑ Krech, Rüdiger (October 2011). "Social Determinants of Health: Practical Solutions to Deal with a Well-Recognized Issue". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. 89 (10): 703. doi:10.2471/BLT.11.094870. PMC 3209985. PMID 22084502. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  11. ↑ Krech, Rüdiger (December 2011). "Healthy public policies: looking ahead". Health Promotion International. 26 (suppl. 2): 268–272. doi:10.1093/heapro/dar066. PMID 22080083.
  12. ↑ Cometto, Giorgio; Tulenko, Kate; Muula, Adamson S.; Krech, Rüdiger (September 2013). "Health workforce brain drain: from denouncing the challenge to solving the problem". PLOS Medicine. 10 (9): e1001514. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001514. PMC 3775719. PMID 24068895.
  13. ↑ Sales, Mozart; Kieny, Marie-Paule; Krech, Rüdiger; Etienne, Carissa F. (November 2013). "Human resources for universal health coverage: from evidence to policy and action". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. 91 (11): 798–798A. doi:10.2471/BLT.13.131110. PMC 3853969. PMID 24347697. Archived from the original on April 10, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  14. ↑ Krech, Rüdiger (January 2014). "Globale Gesundheitssteuerung und globale Steuerung für mehr Gesundheit". Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik (in German). 68: 10–13. doi:10.5771/1611-5821-2014-1-10. ISSN 1611-5821.
  15. ↑ Krech, Rüdiger; Kieny, Marie-Paule (September 2014). "The 2014 Ebola outbreak: ethical use of unregistered interventions". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. 92 (9): 622. doi:10.2471/BLT.14.145789. PMC 4208580. PMID 25378748. Archived from the original on September 5, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
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