Karl Emmert-Fees, MPH


Visiting Research Scholar | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Biography


Karl Emmert-Fees is a visiting research scholar originally from the southern part of Germany. He has a bachelor's degree in social economics with a specialization in health economics from the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg and a master's degree in public health from the LMU Munich. His thesis was about the cost-effectiveness of a collaborative care intervention for patients with diabetes and co-morbid depression in India in the INDEPENDENT clinical trial. He is currently doing his PhD in medical research in epidemiology and public health at LMU Munich focusing on simulation modeling of population-level dietary policies for the prevention of cardiometabolic diseases. During his stay at Emory University he worked on several projects, including the effects of the Medicaid expansion in people with diabetes. Additionally, he supported Michael Laxy, PhD with the projects for his Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy and Practice and Mohammed K. Ali, a core faculty member of the EGDRC, to work on ongoing research projects focusing on prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Karl Emmert-Fees, MPH