Verina Wild is fascinated by the relation between the individual, the population and the social and environmental structures. In her work she discusses this relation in various areas, such as pandemics, digital health, climate change, migration, social gradient in health, (global) health inequalities. Being trained as a physician she has intensely researched public and global health ethics and theories of health justice over the last decade. Together with Andreas Mielck she has just completed a book on health inequalities. An intricate field to explore ethical dimensions at the individual, population and global level are mobile health technologies (apps, wearables) and she does this together with her research group „META - mHealth: Ethical, legal and social aspects in the technological age“, funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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In November 2020 Verina Wild has taken up her position as Professor of Medical Ethics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Augsburg. Before coming to Augsburg she was Deputy Director at the Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, LMU Munich. She wrote her "Habilitation" with the title "Justice and Vulnerability in Bioethics" at the University of Zurich where she has held a position of a Senior Teaching and Research Associate and later on also Deputy Director from 2008-2016 at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine. Her medical dissertation was on ethical aspects of clinical drug trials during pregnancy and is published at the publishing house Campus. Prior to becoming a scholar in health ethics she has worked as a physician in internal medicine in Berlin, Germany and gathered work experience in Tanzania, Scotland, Spain and Argentina.

2020: BMBF-Fellowship at Rutgers University, USA (School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy)

2018: Princess Therese von Bayern-Award (LMU) for outstanding performance in research and teaching
2017: DFG-Fellowship at “Sydney Health Ethics", University of Sydney, Australia
2011: SNSF-Fellowship at “Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health” Columbia University New York, USA
2006: Young Scholar Award from the Academy of Ethics in Medicine AEM, Germany
2003-2004: Carlo Schmid / DAAD-Fellowship Ethics Unit of World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Since 2024: Member of Advisory Board Project "Gesunde Quartiere 2.0", HAW Hamburg

Since 2024: Member of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Public Health (LAGePH) am Bayerischen Staatsministerium für Gesundheit, Pflege und Prävention

Since 2023: Member selection committee "Förderprogramm zur Einwerbung hochkarätiger Drittmittel", University of Augsburg

Since 2023: Member of World Health Organisation Editorial Board for Guidance Document for ERCs, an Intersectional Gender lens in infectious disease research ethics

Since 2023: Member of World Health Organisation Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Embedding Ethics in Health and Climate Change Policy

Since 2023: Member of Advisory Board for the project "Post Covid-19 Care" of the University of Vienna (Department of English and American Studies) and the Medical University of Vienna (Department of Health Economics).

Since 2023: Member of the German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA)

2021-2022: Member of the „Drafting group on equity in access to treatment and equipment in a context of scarcity“, Committee on Bioethics / Council of Europe (DH-BIO)

Since 2021: Associate Editor Journal Public Health Ethics (Oxford Journals)

Since 2020: Founding member Public Health Ethics Working Group at the German Academy of Ethics in Medicine (AEM)/Founding member of the Public Health Ethics Working Group at the Competence Network Public Health COVID-19

Since August 2020: External expert in the German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) Working group COVID-19

2020-2022: Member of advisory board of the project ‚Lebensweltbezogene Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung: Partizipative Erarbeitung eines Definitionsleitfadens voll- und teildigitaler Settings sowie Ansätzen digitaler Verhältnisprävention‘, University of Bielefeld

Since 2019: Regular member to the committee "Digitalisation in health care" of the German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer)

2018-2020: Member of the Core Group Global Health at the Center of Advanced Studies (CAS), LMU, with a subgroup on Global mHealth (together with Günter Fröschl and Claudia Lang)
Since 2018: Co-founder of working group (AG) public health ethics/global health ethics at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Public Health ( DGPH), Co-founded with Prof. Peter Schröder-Bäck
Since 2017: Member of international Consortium on Vulnerability and Equity in Humanitarian Responses (COVEHR), partly funded by Wellcome Trust, UK
Since 2016: Member of international network Migration and Health Network Southern Africa ( MaHp)
Since 2015: Member of WHO working groups on Antimicrobial Resistance and Ethics; Revision of Ethics Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis (Section: Migration); Health Systems Research and Ethics
Since 2015: Liaison professor for the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
2015 – 2021: Member Editorial Board of the Journal Public Health Ethics (Oxford Journals)
2011 – 2015: Ethical Advisor for Safety Board for the EU-FP-7 Project „Diabetes and Pregnancy Vitamin D and Lifestyle Intervention for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Prevention (DALI)“
2014 – 2017: Member of working group Ethics in Transplantationmedicine at the German Bundesärztekammer
2008 – 2016: Member of the Steering Committee Center for Ethics, University of Zurich
2008 – 2013: Country Representative Switzerland for the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB)
2008 – 2010: Clinical ethicist (intermittendly) and deputy director of clinical ethics committee, Clinical Ethics, University Hospital Zurich

Current memberships: Academy for Ethics in Medicine, Germany (AEM); International Association of Bioethics (IAB); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Public Health (DGPH)

Ongoing:

• Ömer Akif (TUM, Dr. med.): mHealth in der Diabetologie: Eine quantitative Studie zu Chancen und Herausforderungen
• Tanja Greiderer (LMU, Dr. med.): Interviewstudie zur Arzt-Patienten Beziehung im Kontext von mHealth
• Dominik Haselwarter (LMU, Dr. med.): Ethics of medical care for asylum seekers in public hunger strike: A qualitative interview study.
• Quintus Sleumer (Charité, Public Health MA thesis): Ethics of lockdown during Covid-19 with a focus on schools
• Ann Kristin Augst (LMU, sociology, PhD, Co-supervision): Die »Unordnung der Geschlechter« im deutschen Gesundheitssystem
• Sabrina Zolg (LMU Munich, PhD, Co-supervision); Health impact of digitally connected work places
• Tanja Greiderer (LMU Munich, Dr. med.): Ärztliches Rollenverständnis und Ethik: Veränderung der Arzt-Patienten-Beziehung im Zeitalter mobiler Gesundheitstechnologien (The influence of mobile health technologies on the physician-patient-relationship)
• Christine Bally-Zenger (University of Zurich, PhD Biomedical Ethics and Law, Co-supervision): Ethical aspects of migration of people in need of long-term care

Completed:

• Naomi Jacobs (Eindhoven University of Technology, PhD Phil, 2021, External Reviewer): Values and Capabilities. Ethics by Design for Vulnerable People
• Laura Mertgen (LMU, MA Munich Epidemiology 2021): Readability, accessibility, and content analysis of terms of use documents and privacy policies of popular health apps in Germany
• Rachna Bhalla (LMU, MA Munich Epidemiology 2021): Feasibility and acceptability of mhealth for womens’ health in low and lower-middle income countries
• Nicole Peter (LMU, MA Public Health): mHealth: opportunities and challenges now and in the future
• Jasmin Metz (LMU, MA Public Health): Vulnerability in public health emergencies
• Felix Machleid (LMU, BA philosophy 2019, Co-supervision): Implications of mHealth for Individual Responsibility and Social Justice. Does mHealth Promote Social Justice in Health?
• Ela Sauerborn (LMU, BA philosophy 2019; Co-supervision): Structural [In]justice and Mobile Health Technologies: An ethical evaluation of mobile applications against gender-based violence
• Katharina Eisenhut (LMU, BA philosophy 2019; Co-supervision): Epistemic Injustice and Mobile Health Technologies: The Case of Gender based Violence Apps in India
• Daniel Drewniak (University of Zurich, PhD Biomedical Ethics and Law, 2017): Migration, Ethnicity, and Disparities in Health Care. The Perspective Of Health Care Providers
• Sandra Haubner (University of Zurich, MA Science in Nursing , 2013; Co-supervision): Erleben von Moralischem Stress bei Pflegenden in einem Schweizer Universitätsspital. Eine qualitative Unterstudie der DRG-Begleitforschung Pflege
• Pingyue Jin (University of Zurich, PhD Biomedical Ethics and Law, 2013): Ethical implications of case-based payment in China
• Eliane Pfister (University of Zurich, PhD Biomedical Ethics and Law, 2012; Co-supervision): Die Rolle der Ethik in der Gesundheitspolitik. Eine philosophisch-empirische Untersuchung anhand der DRG-Reform in der Schweiz
• Kai Alessandra Berger (University of Zurich, Dr. med. 2012): Ärztliches Ethos und ärztliche Kompetenz im Spitalalltag. Eine Interviewstudie in einer akutgeriatrischen Klinik vor Einführung der Fallpauschalen (DRG) in Schweizer Akutspitälern