Prof. Dr. Thomas Ernst Dorner is head of the Academy for Ageing Research and the Research and Teaching Department at Haus der Barmherzigkeit (a non-profit health care organisation offering long-term to people with chronic conditions). He heads the Karl Landsteiner Institute for Health Promotion Research. He is Honory President of the Austrian Association for Public Health (ÖGPH). As an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the Center for Public Health at the Medical University of Vienna, he headed the Lifestyle & Prevention Unit. His research interests include gerontology, health promotion research, health services research, social determinants of health, health effects through lifestyle, and social aspects of chronic illnesses, as well as determinants of work disability.