Prof. Simone Scheithauer is director and W3 ordinaria of the Department of Infection Control and Infectious Diseases at the University Medical Center Göttingen. She is a specialist in hygiene and environmental medicine as well as a specialist in microbiology, virology and infectious disease epidemiology and infectious diseases.
Since 2024, she has been a member of the “Health and Resilience” expert panel at the Federal Chancellery (BKAmt). Since 2023, she has been an appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Board on Public Health Microbiology at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI); since 2019, she has been an appointed member of the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO) at the RKI. She is an associate member of “Airborne Transmission COVID-19”; at the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organisation in Göttingen since 2021 and a member of the Supervisory Board of Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI) Braunschweig since 2020. Since 2022, she has been Vice President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie (DGHM) and Member of the advisory board “Plasma for Life”, and since 2018, she has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Medical Faculty Bielefeld. In her work, she focuses on infection prevention and control in the hospital setting. One major focus is bridging knowledge and information across different faculties and sectors in the healthcare system. She works on innovative surveillance strategies, individualized risk factor identification and focused interventions in order to improve effectiveness and efficacy of infection prevention and control. With respect to the context of this joint forum, she works on improving suitability of infection prevention and control measures with ecological sustainability: as an example, she is the spokesperson of a recently published comment of the KRINKO on appropriate
usage of medical gloves with respect to sustainability from the ecological point of view. She is the head of the consortia project HOPE “Hospital hygiene Preventing Emissions” aiming at compiling a matrix which brings together the potential of decreasing the ecological footprint by maintaining patient safety with respect to hospital aquired infections due to modification of infection prevention and control measures. Simone Scheithauer led 13 officially funded project during the last 10 years.
