Alarcos Cieza MSc, MPH, PhD - Switzerland

Interviewee

Dr Alarcos Cieza oversees the World Health Organization’s work on vision, hearing, disability and rehabilitation in her position of Unit Head, Sensory Functions, Disability and Rehabilitation.
Prior to joining WHO in September 2014, she served as Chair and Professor of Medical Psychology at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. After obtaining her MSc in psychology in Madrid, Spain, she conducted a Master in Public Health and obtained a PhD in Medical Psychology from the Ludwig-Maximillians University in Munich, Germany.
She led the research unit for over ten years at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and then at the Pettenkofer School of Public Health at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.

Unit Head
Sensory functions, Disability and Rehabilitation
World Health Organization
Avenue Appia 20
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland

Tel.: +41 22 791 1998
Mobile: + 41 79 6338776
Email: ciezaa@who.int
Website: www.who.int/disabilities/