Johannes Siegrist#
| Email: | siegrist 'at' uni-duesseldorf.de |
| Membership Number: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES |
| Date of Birth: | 1943/08/06 |
| Username: | jsiegrist |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1992 Professor of Medical Sociology and Director of the Postgraduate Training Program on Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany
- 1973-1992 Professor of Medical Sociology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Marburg, Germany (interrupted by visiting Professorships at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria (1977-1979) and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA (1991))
Fields of Scholarship
- chronic psychosocial stress at work and development of chronic diseases
- social determinants of health in early old age
- concepts and measurements of social inequalities in health
- sociological aspects of clinical decision-making and evaluation research
Honours and Awards
- Hans Roemer Award (German College of Psychosomatic Medicine 1979)
- Belle van Zuylen Chair (University of Utrecht, Netherlands 1994)
- Honorary member European Society of Health and Medical Sociology 1998
- Elected Member Academia Europaea London 2000
- Salomon Neumann Award German Society of Social Medicine and Prevention 2001
- Fellow European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology 2003
- Honorary Member German Society of Medical Sociology 2003
- Research Award European Society of Health and Medical Sociology 2004
- Corresponding Member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 2004






