Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann appointed to the WBGU

The medical scientist is Director of Environmental Medicine in Research and Clinical Care at University Hospital Augsburg and Helmholtz Munich and is Deputy Director of the Centre for Climate Resilience at the University of Augsburg. With her work, Traidl-Hoffmann seeks to understand which environmental factors make us ill and which protective factors from the environment keep us healthy. Here, a major focus is on climate change-induced environmental changes. The clinical focus is on chronic inflammatory diseases such as allergy and neurodermatitis. The overarching goal of her work is the prevention of environmental diseases and the climate resilience of the health system. 

Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann succeeds Sabine Gabrysch, who left the WBGU for health reasons. Sabine Gabrysch: “I have very much enjoyed working in this wonderfully interdisciplinary group of experts and I am awfully sorry that I can no longer do so. Unfortunately this happened before we completed our report on Planetary Health, which is very close to my heart. But I am glad that the WBGU has been able to find a strong successor who combines health expertise with a planetary perspective.”

A medical doctor, Ms Gabrysch had been a member of the Advisory Council since November 2020, and during her time she played a key role in shaping the content and concept of the current main report on "Environment and Health". The Council would like to thank Ms Gabrysch for her substantive and conceptual contributions and her great commitment, and deeply regrets her premature departure from the WBGU.