Karl Emmert-Fees, MSPH
Research associate
Professorship of Public Health & Prevention Technical University of Munich Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60/62 80992 Munich | Room: L-516 |
Profile
Karl has been a research associate at the professorship of Public Health and Prevention at TUM since March 2021. In parallel, he is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Epidemiology at the Helmholtz Zentrum München. Since 2019 he has been enrolled in the PhD program "Medical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health" of the Munich Medical Research School at LMU Munich. Previously, he earned his Master of Science in Public Health at LMU Munich. In his PhD thesis, Karl works on the evaluation of population-based policies to reduce the health and economic burden of non-communicable diseases. Internationally, he is also involved in projects related to cardiometabolic and mental health lead by the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Research interests
- Economic evaluation of dietary policies
- Analysis and economic evaluation of clinical studies
- Decision modelling and simulation
- Socioeconomic aspects of health inequalities
- Diabetes and depression
Selected publications
Ali MK, Chwastiak L, Poongothai S, Emmert-Fees, KMF, et al. Effect of a Collaborative Care Model on Depressive Symptoms and Glycated Hemoglobin, Blood Pressure, and Serum Cholesterol Among Patients With Depression and Diabetes in India: The INDEPENDENT Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2020;324(7):651–662. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.11747
Emmert-Fees, K. M., Karl, F. M., von Philipsborn, P., Rehfuess, E. A., & Laxy, M. (2021). Simulation Modeling for the Economic Evaluation of Population-Based Dietary Policies: A Systematic Scoping Review. Advances in Nutrition. 2021. doi:10.1093/advances/nmab028
Pedron, S, Emmert-Fees, KMF, Laxy, M, & Schwettmann, L (2019). The impact of diabetes on labour market participation: a systematic review of results and methods. BMC public health, 19(1), 25.