Dr. Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, MSc, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor and Head Global Health at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Department of Global Public Health and Bioethics, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands & Visiting Professor, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

She is an epidemiologist and nutrition scientist with over 25 years of experience in international research and research capacity building in epidemiology, implementation science, public and global health.

Her research is on the etiology, prevention and management of cardiometabolic/vascular disease, double burden of malnutrition, and multiple long-term chronic conditions including communicable diseases in a global context. She is the the Utrecht based principal investigator on implementation science projects that aim to improve and scale-up care for hypertension, diabetes and multiple long-term chronic conditions such as PEN-CONNECT (Strengthening integrated, patient-centred care for hypertension, diabetes and common mental disorders in Mozambique), iHEART-SA (Integrating heart health in HIV care in South Africa) and SCUBY (Scaling-up diabetes and hypertension in vulnerable populations).

Research capacity building activities focus on non-communicable disease epidemiology and public health in a global context at Utrecht and Wits University and through programmes such as CAPSTONE (Capacity Strengthening of Transdisciplinary Education for Non-Communicable Disease Care in West Africa) and IS4NCDs (Implementation Science Training for Non-Communicable Diseases).

She has supervised and mentored over 125 Master, PhD and postdoctoral fellows and published over 325 peer-reviewed papers.

Academic and societal activities include memberships of institutional committees and academic/research networks. Amongst others, she is Editor of the World Health Federations’ scientific journal Global Heart, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the STOP-NCD NIHR Global Health Research Center, and Executive Board Member of the European Global Health Research Institutes Network (EGHRIN).

In her current position as Associate Professor and Head Global Health her focus is on the development of global health research and capacity building (www.globalhealth.eu) at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.