Andrea Schmidt

Ms. Andrea E. Schmidt is head of department Climate Resilience and One Health at the Competence Centre Climate & Health at the Austrian National Public Health Institute. She works at the interface of policy, practice and research, currently focusing on topics such as climate resilience of health systems, a climate-smart health workforce and socio-ecological transformation of health and long-term care systems. She has a PhD degree in social sciences and economics from Vienna University of Business and Economics, and a MSc in Public Policy and Human Development at Maastricht University. She looks back on research stays at LSE Health, Stockholm University and University of British Columbia, among others, and has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs and book chapters in the field of long-term care and health economics and social policy analysis. She is also a consultant and technical expert for the World Health Organization on health information systems, long-term care as well as in the WHO-hosted network “Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health” (ATACH).