Univ. Prof. Dr. Eva Annette Rehfuess, B.A., M.A. (Oxon), Ph.D.

Brief CV

• since 2018 Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology and Pettenkofer School of Public Health, LMU Munich
• since 2015 Adjunct Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/eva-rehfuess-phd/
• 2009 - 2018 Senior Scientist, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology and Pettenkofer School of Public Health, LMU, Munich
• 2011 - 2014 Habilitation in Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine LMU, Munich
• 2002 - 2008 Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London
• 2002 - 2009 Establishment and coordination of a programme on household air pollution from solid fuel use in developing countries, World Health Organization, Geneva
• 2001 - 2007 Coordination of Global Initiative on Children's Environmental Health Indicators, World Health Organization, Geneva
• 1999 - 2000 Refinement of the global solar UV index and development of concepts for skin cancer prevention among children, World Health Organization, Geneva
• 1999 - 2000 Post-Graduate Fellowship Programme for International Affairs with the Robert Bosch Foundation, the World Health Organization, Geneva and the Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Education, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
• 1995 - 1998 B.A. and M.A. (Oxon) in Biological Sciences, University of Oxford

Research Areas

Selected research areas

• Methods for evidence-based public health
• Knowledge translation and evidence-informed decision making
• Systematic reviews and guidelines of complex interventions in complex systems
• Evaluation of complex interventions in complex systems
• Global Health

Selected research projects

• Food environments in Africa: Addressing Malnutrition using a Syndemics Approach (FoodSAMSA), https://foodsamsa.samrc.ac.za/
• Munich Science Communication Lab, https://www.mscl.de/
• Evaluation of the community-based intervention “Präventionskette Freiham”, https://ihrs.ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de/biopsychosocial/laufende-projekte/pk_freiham/
• Several Network University Medicine (NUM) projects, including PREPARED (https://num-prepared.de/), coverCHILD (https://coverchild.de/) and CollPAN
• COVID-19 evidence ecosystem (CEOsys), https://covid-evidenz.de/
• Collaboration for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Public Health in Africa (CEBHA+), www.cebha-plus.org
• Policy Evaluation Network for policies affecting dietary and physical activity, https://www.jpi-pen.eu/
• The ADAPT study: development of guidance for the adaptation of population health interventions, https://adaptstudy.co.uk/
• Integrated health technology assessment for the evaluation of complex technologies (INTEGRATE-HTA), www.integrate-hta.eu/

Selected other activities

• Co-Speaker and member of the Steering Committee of the German Alliance for Global Health Research, globalhealth.de
• Member of Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert Koch Institute
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the UK Prevention Research Partnership, https://ukprp.org/
• Founding member of Cochrane Public Health Europe, http://ph.cochrane.org/cochrane-public-health-europe and Editor of Cochrane Public Health

Teaching Activities

Selected teaching activities

• Global Public Health module as part of MSc Public Health and MSc Epidemiology programmes
• Basics of evidence-based medicine as part of medical curriculum (MeCUM)
• Organisation and teaching as part of European Summer School in Evidence-Based Public Health (www.evidencebasedpublichealth.de)

Publications

Selected methodological publications: complexity and evidence-based public health

• Rehfuess EA, Movsisyan A, Pfadenhauer LM, Burns JB, Ludolph R, Michie S, Strahwald B (2023). Public health and social measures during health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic: an initial framework to conceptualize and classify measures. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses,17:e13110.
• Moore G, Campbell M, Copeland L, Craig P, Movsisyan A, Hoddinott P, Littlecott H, O’Cathain A, Pfadenhauer L, Rehfuess EA, Segrott J, Hawe P, Kee F, Couturiaux D, Hallingberg B, Evans R (2021). Adapting interventions to new contexts—the ADAPT guidance. BMJ 374:n1679.
• Movsisyan A, Arnold L, Evans R, Hallingberg B, Moore G, O’Cathain A, Pfadenhauer L, Segrott J, Rehfuess EA (2019). Adapting evidence-informed complex population health interventions for new contexts: a systematic review of guidance. Implementation Science 14:105.
• Rutter H, Savona N, Glonti K, Bibby J, Cummins S, Finegood D, Greaves F, Harper L, Hawe P, Moore L, Petticrew M, Rehfuess EA, Shiell A, Thomas J, White M (2017). Why we need a complex systems model of evidence for public health. Lancet 390:2602-2604.
• Pfadenhauer LM, Gerhardus A, Mozygemba K, Bakke Lysdahl K, Booth A, Hofmann B, Wahlster P, Polus S, Burns J, Brereton L, Rehfuess EA (2017). Making sense of complexity in context and implementation: The Context and Implementation of Complex Interventions (CICI) Framework. Implementation Science 12(1):2.

Selected methodological publications: systematic reviews and guidelines

• Rehfuess EA, Burns JB, Pfadenhauer LM, Krishnaratne S, Littlecott H, Meerpohl JJ, Movsisyan A (2022). Undertaking rapid reviews on public health and social measures during a global pandemic. Research Synthesis Methods 1-15.
• Rehfuess EA, Stratil JM, Scheel IB, Portela A, Norris SL, Baltussen R (2019). The WHO-INTEGRATE evidence to decision framework version 1.0: integrating WHO norms and values and a complexity perspective. BMJ Global Health 4(Suppl 1):e000844.
• Rehfuess EA, Booth A, Brereton L, Burns J, Gerhardus A, Mozygemba K, Oortwijn W, Pfadenhauer LM, Tummers M, van der Wilt G-J, Rohwer A (2018). Towards a taxonomy of logic models in systematic reviews and health technology assessments: a priori, staged and iterative approaches. Research Synthesis Methods 9(1):13-24.
• Booth A, Noyes J, Flemming K, Gerhardus A, Wahlster P, van der Wilt GJ, Mozygemba K, Refolo P, Sacchini D, Tummers M, Rehfuess EA (2018). Structured methodology identified seven RETREAT criteria for selecting qualitative evidence synthesis approaches. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 99: 41–52.
• Rohwer A, Pfadenhauer LM, Burns J, Brereton L, Gerhardus A, Booth A, Oortwijn W, Rehfuess EA (2017). Logic models help make sense of complexity in systematic reviews and health technology assessments. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 83:37-47.

Selected publications on public health interventions

• von Philipsborn P, Huizinga O, Leibinger A, Rubin D, Burns J, Emmert-Fees K, Pedron S, Layx M, Rehfuess EA (2023). Interim Evaluation of Germany’s Sugar Reduction Strategy for Soft Drinks: Commitments versus Actual Trends in Sugar Content and Sugar Sales from Soft Drinks. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, online ahead of print.
• Kratzer S, Pfadenhauer LM, Biallas RK, Featherstone R, Klinger C, Movsisyan A, Rabe JE, Stadelmaier J, Rehfuess EA, Wabnitz K, Verboom B (2022). Unintended consequences of measures implemented in the school setting to contain the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review. Cochrane Database Syst Rev Issue 6. Art. No.: CD015397.
• Burns J, Hoffmann S, Kurz C, Laxy M, Polus S, Rehfuess EA (2021). COVID-19 mitigation measures and nitrogen dioxide – a quasi-experimental study of air quality in Munich, Germany. Atmospheric Environment 246:118089.
• Krishnaratne S*, Pfadenhauer LM*, Coenen M, Geffert K, Jung-Sievers C, Klinger C, Kratzer S, Littlecott H, Movsisyan A, Rabe J, Rehfuess EA, Sell K, Strahwald B, Stratil J, Voss S, Wabnitz K, Burns J (2020). Measures implemented in the school setting to contain the COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid scoping review. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 12. Art. No.: CD013812.
• Polus S, Burns J, Hoffmann S, Mathes T, Mansmann U, Been JV, Lack N, Koller D, Maier W, Rehfuess EA (2021). The impact of the Bavarian smoke-free legislation on pregnancy outcomes: an interrupted time series study. Nature Scientific Reports 11:4209, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83774-0.

Selected global health publications

• Burns J, Movsisyan A, Stratil JM, Biallas RL, Coenen M, Emmert-Fees KM, Geffert K, Hoffmann S, Horstick O, Laxy M, Klinger C, Kratzer S, Litwin T, Norris S, Pfadenhauer LM, von Philipsborn P, Sell K, Stadelmaier J, Verboom B, Voss S, Wabnitz K, Rehfuess E (2021). International travel-related control measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid review. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 3(3):CD013717.
• Macicame I, Prista A, Parhofer KG, Cavele N, Manhiça C, Nhachungue S, Saathoff E, Rehfuess EA (2021). Social determinants and behaviors associated with overweight and obesity among youth and adults in a peri-urban area of Maputo City, Mozambique. Journal of Global Health 11: 04021.
• Burns J, Boogaard H, Polus S, Pfadenhauer LM, Rohwer AC, van Erp AM, Turley R, Rehfuess EA. Interventions to reduce ambient particulate matter air pollution and their effect on health. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019, Issue 5. Art. No.: CD010919.
• Pope D, Bruce NG, Jagoe K, Dherani M, Rehfuess EA (2017). Real-life effectiveness of “improved” cookstoves and clean fuels in reducing PM2.5 and CO: systematic review and meta-analysis Environment International 101:7-18.
• Paudel D, Shrestha IB, Siebeck M, Rehfuess EA (2017). Impact of the Community-Based Newborn Care Package in Nepal: a quasi-experimental evaluation. BMJ Open 7(10), e015285.