Holger Pfaff is professor for quality development and director of the Institute for Medical Sociology, Health Services Research, and Rehabilitation Science (IMVR), and he leads the Centre of Health Services Research Cologne at the University of Cologne. Additionally, he is honorary professor at Macquarie University, Sydney. He studied social and administration sciences at the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Constance. From 2012–2019, he was an elected member of the review board “medicine” of the German Research Foundation, and from 2016–2019, chairman of “the board of experts” of the German Innovation Funds appointed by the German Ministry of Health.