Verina Wild is fascinated by the relation between the individual, the population and the social and environmental structures. In her work she discusses this relation in various areas, such as pandemics, digital health, climate change, migration, social gradient in health, (global) health inequalities. Being trained as a physician she has intensely researched public and global health ethics and theories of health justice over the last decade. Currently she is completing a co-authored book on health inequalities. An intricate field to explore ethical dimensions at the individual, population and global level are mobile health technologies (apps, wearables) and she does this together with her research group „META - mHealth: Ethical, legal and social aspects in the technological age“., funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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In November 2020 Verina Wild has taken up her position as Professor of Medical Ethics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Augsburg. Before coming to Augsburg she was Deputy Director at the Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, LMU Munich. She wrote her "Habilitation" with the title "Justice and Vulnerability in Bioethics" at the University of Zurich where she has held a position of a Senior Teaching and Research Associate and later on also Deputy Director from 2008-2016 at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine. Her medical dissertation was on ethical aspects of clinical drug trials during pregnancy and is published at the publishing house Campus. Prior to becoming a scholar in health ethics she has worked as a physician in internal medicine in Berlin, Germany and gathered work experience in Tanzania, Scotland, Spain and Argentina.

2020: BMBF-Fellowship at Rutgers University, USA (School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy)

2018: Princess Therese von Bayern-Award (LMU) for outstanding performance in research and teaching
2017: DFG-Fellowship at “Sydney Health Ethics", University of Sydney, Australia
2011: SNSF-Fellowship at “Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health” Columbia University New York, USA
2006: Young Scholar Award from the Academy of Ethics in Medicine AEM, Germany
2003-2004: Carlo Schmid / DAAD-Fellowship Ethics Unit of World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Since 2021: Member of the „Drafting group on equity in access to treatment and equipment in a context of scarcity“, Committee on Bioethics / Council of Europe (DH-BIO)

Since 2020: Founding member Public Health Ethics Working Group at the German Academy of Ethics in Medicine (AEM)/Founding member of the Public Health Ethics Working Group at the Competence Network Public Health COVID-19

Since August 2020: External expert in the German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) Working group COVID-19

Since 2020: Member of advisory board of the project ‚Lebensweltbezogene Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung: Partizipative Erarbeitung eines Definitionsleitfadens voll- und teildigitaler Settings sowie Ansätzen digitaler Verhältnisprävention‘, University of Bielefeld

Since 2019: Regular member to the committee "Digitalisation in health care" of the German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer)

2018-2020: Member of the Core Group Global Health at the Center of Advanced Studies (CAS), LMU, with a subgroup on Global mHealth (together with Günter Fröschl and Claudia Lang)
Since 2018: Co-founder of working group (AG) public health ethics/global health ethics at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Public Health ( DGPH), Co-founded with Prof. Peter Schröder-Bäck
Since 2017: Member of international Consortium on Vulnerability and Equity in Humanitarian Responses (COVEHR), partly funded by Wellcome Trust, UK
Since 2016: Member of international network Migration and Health Network Southern Africa ( MaHp)
Since 2015: Member of WHO working groups on Antimicrobial Resistance and Ethics; Revision of Ethics Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis (Section: Migration); Health Systems Research and Ethics
Since 2015: Liaison professor for the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Since 2015: Member Editorial Board of the Journal Public Health Ethics (Oxford Journals)
2011 – 2015: Ethical Advisor for Safety Board for the EU-FP-7 Project „Diabetes and Pregnancy Vitamin D and Lifestyle Intervention for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Prevention (DALI)“
2014 – 2017: Member of working group Ethics in Transplantationmedicine at the German Bundesärztekammer
2008 – 2016: Member of the Steering Committee Center for Ethics, University of Zurich
2008 – 2013: Country Representative Switzerland for the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB)
2008 – 2010: Clinical ethicist (intermittendly) and deputy director of clinical ethics committee, Clinical Ethics, University Hospital Zurich

Current memberships: Academy for Ethics in Medicine, Germany (AEM); International Association of Bioethics (IAB); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Public Health (DGPH)

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