Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer

Professional Activities

  • Environmental Epidemiology with focus on air pollution on health in children
  • Environmental determinants for the development of asthma and allergies
  • Gene by environment interactions in asthma and allergies
  • Health effects of climate change
  • Environmental medicine
  • Environmental determinants affecting physical activity

Higher Education & Qualifications

  • Since 2002: Titular Professor of Public Health, Medical Faculty of the University of Basel
  • 1988-1989: Training in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • 1976-1979: Clinical training in Surgery, and Internal Medicine in Switzerland
  • 1968-1975: Medical student, University of Basel

Work Experience

  • Since October 2005: Director ad interim of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel
  • 1997-2005: Deputy Director of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel
  • 1991-1997: Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellow (PROSPER programme) Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel
  • 1989-1991: Research Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel
  • 1981-1987: Research Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel (maternity leaves 1980-1981 and 1982-1984)