Stella Hartinger

Main Topic of PhD and Supervisor

  • Reducing childhood illness – Fostering growth. An integrated home-based intervention package (IHIP): Improving indoor-air pollution, drinking water and child nutrition. Supervised by Prof. D. Maeusezahl

Current Research Projects

  • A multidisciplinary approach to prevent Pneumonia in Peruvian Children
  • Stove –related air pollution exposure assessment for the San Marcos stove-intervention project

Main Interests

  • Delivering health intervention that by addressing environmental health problems create health supportive environments towards the prevention of disease especially focusing on disease related to childhood illnesses such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and malnutrition
  • Assessing and controlling environmental factors that can potentially affect health such as air quality, water quality and sanitation 
  • Finding effective ways to deliver health interventions, design scaling up plans and strengthen information transference processes to policy and decision makers