Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D.

Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D., has joined the faculty of Epidemiology and Public Health as professor of public health and head of the division of international health. She succeeds Lowell Levin, M.P.H. ’60, who retired in June. Dr. Kickbusch comes to Yale from the World Health Organization, where for the past four years she was director of the Division of Health Promotion, Education and Communication. She began her work at WHO as a consultant in 1980 and previously held a Yale appointment as lecturer in public health, in 1985. Her research interests focus on the effects of globalization of health, global health governance and strategies for health promotion.