Nino Künzli
- Phone: + 41 61 284 83 99
- Fax: + 41 61 284 81 05
- Email: nino.kuenzli@unibas.ch
- Profession: Prof., MD PhD
- Position: Deputy Director, Head of Department, Head of Unit, Groupleader
- Department/Unit:
Professional Activities
- Management of EPH as head of department and deputy director of STPH
- Leading public health teaching as the Chair of Public Health at the medical school University of Basel
- Initiating and conducting research in environmental epidemiology in national and international collaborations with a particular focus on exposure to and effects of ambient air pollution and related health impact assessment
Higher Education & Qualifications
- 1983 Medical exam University Basel
- 1986 MD University Basel
- 1992 MPH University of California Berkeley
- 1995 PhD in Epidemiology University of California Berkeley
- 2000 Venia docendi (PD / Associate professor) University Basel medical school
Work Experience
- Since 2010 Deputy Director STPH and Head of Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
- May 2009 Full Professor / Chair of Social and Preventive Medicine / Public Health University Basel Medical School (director of former Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine Basel)
- 2006-2009 ICREA Research Professor at the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, CREAL; head of air pollution research group
- 2002-2005 Associate Professor with tenure University of Southern California Los Angeles, Division of Environmental Health at the Department of Preventive Medicine
- 1996-2002 PROSPER Senior Researcher fellowship of Swiss National Science Foundation at Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine University Basel
- 1996 Research advisor Swiss Lung Association
- 1989-1992 Research assistant in air pollution epidemiology, coordinator of Swiss Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults SAPALDIA
- Since 1998: Steering Committee member, Work package leader, principal and/or co-investigator of large cohort, exposure assessment or health impact studies in the field of air pollution and health (SAPALDIA; European ECRHS; European ESCAPE and TRANSPHORM; Spanish REGICOR-AIR; USC Children’s Health Study and TROY; EXPOLIS; APHEKOM)