Dr. Carsten Mantel has over 30 years of work experience in academic and global UN settings and the consulting sector in the fields of immunization, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, malaria and neglected tropical diseases. He co-founded MMGH Consulting to assist global health institutions and countries in the development and implementation of disease prevention and control strategies, policies, and programmes. MMGH also works to ensure equitable access to vaccines and adequate treatments, to support integrated primary health care approaches, and to conduct relevant evaluations. Before MMGH, Dr. Mantel was the Priority Area Lead for New Vaccines and Innovation in the WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals in Geneva for almost 10 years. More recently he worked as Senior Advisor in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Department of the Robert Koch Institute, a major German public health institute. Prior to this, he was Director of the International Health Programme at the Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health of the Charité Medical School of Humboldt University in Berlin. In addition, Dr. Mantel is a founding member of the Global Health Hub Germany and of the German Epidemiological Society.
