Prof. Dr. Sabine Dittrich

Forschungs- und Lehrgebiete

Prof Dr Sabine Dittrich is a public health microbiologist passionate about diagnostic and how we can best utilize different tools and interventions to support patient management and public health decision making. Her research and teaching predominantly focuses on the development and deployment of technical solutions (from digital guidelines to improved diagnostic tools) in the global public health context to improve patient based and public health decision making. In addition, her passion are zoonotic and vector-borne diseases that cause febrile illnesses (malaria, scrub typhus, typhoid) and her work has focused on the epidemiology and diagnostic development pipeline of those. Since joining DIT in Pfarrkirchen she continues to support international organizations like the World Health Organization as part of expert groups (typhoid and meningitis diagnostic) and applied research that helps inform policy decision making. Her research group is made up of PhD and MSc students based in the UK, Switzerland and Germany all exploring optimized ways and tools to improve the utilization of diagnostic as a key tool to improve management and decision making. The goals of all her research projects are to optimize the care that care providers can deliver with a view towards reducing the threat from AMR and future pandemics.

Since joining the faculty of the DIT her goal is to continue to establish the MSc in Global Public Health to enable current and prospective students to get a balanced education as well as a network of contacts that will make them the future leaders in global public health.