About
Prof. Kerstin Klipsteiin Grobusch
Professor Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch is Associate Professor and Head Global Health at the Julius Center for Health Sciences & Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands and Visiting Professor at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
She is an epidemiologist with over 25 years of experience in international research capacity building and mentoring in epidemiology, public and global health. She is the principal investigator of the ‘Capacity Strengthening of Transdisciplinary Education for Non-Communicable Disease Care in West Africa (CAPSTONE)’ and co-investigator of the IS4NCDs (Principal Investigator) focused on strengthening implementation science education and institutional capacity for non-communicable disease (NCD) care in Africa.
Her research focuses on the etiology, prevention and management of cardiovascular disease, double burden of malnutrition and co- and multimorbidity of communicable and non-communicable disease in a global context, including implementation science projects that aim to improve and scale-up care for hypertension and diabetes in Africa, Asia and Europe. She leads the Horizon Europe funded ‘Optimizing care pathways and quality of care for moderate-to-severe hypertension, diabetes and common mental health multimorbidity in Mozambique (PEN-CONNECT)’ initiative. Previous work include the NIH-funded ‘Integrating heart health in HIV care in South Africa (iHEART-SA)’, and Horizon 2020-funded ‘Scaling-up diabetes and hypertension in vulnerable populations (SCUBY)’ and the MRC-PaLS (Patient-led support groups in the management of hypertension and diabetes in low-resource settings (UKRI)implementation science projects.
Academic and societal activities include memberships of institutional committees and academic/research networks. Amongst others, she is Deputy Editor of the World Health Federations’ scientific journal Global Heart and Executive Board Member of the European Global Health Research Institutes Network (EGHRIN).
In her current position as Head of Global Health her focus is on the development of global health research and capacity building (https://www.globalhealth.eu) at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.
