Jürgen M. Pelikan, PhD is Professor emeritus for sociology at University of Vienna /Austria and Director of the Competence Center for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Care at the Austrian Public Health Institute in Vienna / Austria. He has co-initiated the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU) and was its PI for data analysis and reporting. Later he was directing further research on health literacy of specific populations (adolescents, migrants) and on health literate health care organizations in Austria and was PI in an EU-Project on diabetes health literacy. He is a co-editor of the WHO publication Health Literacy – The Solid Facts. Actually he is co-chairing a working group on “Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Literate Health Care Organizations” of the International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services and also is co-chairing the Action Network for Measuring Population and Organizational Health Literacy (M-POHL) of the European Health Information Initiative (EHII) of WHO-Europe. He is the international PI of the next European health literacy survey HLS19. He is a member of the Executive Board of the International Health Literacy Association (IHLA) and of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Asian Health Literacy Association (AHLA).