Klaus Hurrelmann is Senior Professor of Public Health and Education at the Hertie School. His research focuses on health and education policy. Hurrelmann was the founding dean of Germany’s first Faculty of Health Sciences at Bielefeld University, where he also served for twelve years as Director of the Research Center SFB 227 “Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence.”
From 1992 to 2006, he coordinated the German contribution to the international “Health Behaviour in School-aged Children” (HBSC) study for the World Health Organization. He is part of the leadership team of several ongoing national studies on the development of families, children, adolescents, and young adults.
Previously, Klaus Hurrelmann was Professor of Socialization at the universities of Essen and Bielefeld. He studied at the University of Münster and the University of California, Berkeley, and earned his doctorate on the relationship between education systems and society.