Priv.-Doz. Dr. Timo-Kolja Pförtner
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In 2002 to 2008, Timo-Kolja Pfoertner studied social science (Diploma) at the University of Cologne. He subsequently wrote his PhD-thesis between 2008 and 2011 as a scholar in the Research Training Group „Social Order and Life Chances in Cross-National Comparison“ at the University of Cologne. His doctoral thesis was about “Poverty and Health in Europe”. After graduation, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Medical Sociology at the University of Halle (Saale) and worked among other things in an EU-funded project called “SILNETackling socio-economic inequalities in smoking: learning from natural experiments”. Since October 2014, he is research assistant at the IMVR.
Currently, Mr. Pförtner teaches as a substitute professor at the Research Methods Department of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne (https://www.hf.uni-koeln.de/41676)
- Work and health
- Social determinants of health and health inequalities
- Cross-national comparisons in health and health inequalities
- Life course research
- Quantitative methods in empirical social research
- Pflegerische Versorgung in Zeiten von Corona – Drohender Systemkollaps oder „normaler Wahnsinn“? Wissenschaftliche Studie zu Herausforderungen und Belastungen aus der Sichtweise von Leitungskräften
- Promoting the health literacy of managers – An evidence-based training program (HeLEvi)
- Der Lebensstandardansatz zur Messung von Armut
- Implementierung des Lebensstandardansatzes als Level-3-Projekt im Rahmen der Nationalen Kohorte
- INHECOV – Sozioökonomische Ungleichheit in der Gesundheit während der COVID-19 Pandemie: Empirische Analysen und Implikationen für die Pandemieplanung