Professor Dr. med. Ulrich Laaser, DTM&H, MPH, works in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the School of Public Health, Bielefeld, Germany. He had the status of Venia Legendi for Epidemiology in Internal Medicine at the Medical Faculty of Cologne (1980) and external Professor (1987). He has also served as a Professor at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, in the Faculty of Sociology (1989) and the Faculty of Health Sciences (1994). He was the principal investigator of the Stability Pact Project on Public Health Training and Research in South Eastern Europe (2001-2010). In 2004, he was appointed as a visiting professor at the School of Public Health in Belgrade and an honorary professor at the universities in Sofia, Bulgaria and Tirana, Albania. He was a member of the executive boards of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER, president 1993-1995) and the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA, president 2010-2012). He obtained degrees in 1969 from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Diploma of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene) and in 1970 from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA (Master of Public Health). He was the awardee of the German Hufeland Price (1979), Andrija Stampar Medalist of ASPHER (2008), and recipient of the WFPHA Lifetime Achievement for Excellence in Global Health Award (2023). Publications: ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5889-4471?lang=en