Prof. Dr. Hajo Zeeb

Prof. Hajo Zeeb took over the Department of Prevention and Evaluation at the BIPS in January 2010.

He graduated from the RWTH Aachen in Germany where he also wrote his medical dissertation. After several years of clinical medical practice in Germany and the UK, he worked as a medical officer in Northern Namibia. Returning to Germany, he obtained a Masters Degree in Public Health from Heidelberg University and worked as epidemiologist for the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ Heidelberg) and then from 1999-2005 at the University of Bielefeld, School of Public Health. There he was involved in various epidemiological studies and taught in the Public Health and Epidemiology degree courses, in particular the MSc Epidemiology.

In 2005 Dr.Zeeb joined the Department of Public Health and Environment of the World Health Organization in Geneva, working mainly on issues related to environmental radiation. He then took over a post as Professor of Epidemiology at the Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center, Mainz University, before coming to Bremen in 2010.

Prof. Zeeb is an active member of several international and national scientific organisations (e.g. IEA, DGEpi), as well as the German Radiation Protection Commission (SSK) and various SSK working groups, since 2021 he is a Member of SSK. Also since 2021 he is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine and a current member of the German UNSCEAR delegation. From 2024 to 2026 he is Chair of the German Public Health Association.

Hajo Zeeb is Co-Speaker of the high-profile research area “Health Sciences” of the University of Bremen. As speaker of the board of directors he heads the Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen since 2019.