Biography
Andreas Alois Reis (MD, MSc) is the Co-Unit Head of the Health Ethics & Governance Unit at
WHO in Geneva, Switzerland.
After medical studies and practice in internal medicine in Germany, France and Chile he pursued
studies in health economics and obtained a post-graduate degree in biomedical ethics. His work
focuses on ethical aspects of infectious diseases, public health surveillance, health research, and
Artificial Intelligence in health. Since 2023 he holds an appointment as adjunct professor for
medical ethics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Prof. Reis has lectured and organized trainings for WHO in more than 50 countries and serves on
the editorial boards of Public Health Ethics and Monash Bioethics Review. He has published widely
and is the co-editor of four books on health ethics
