Wolfgang Hoffmann is Professor for Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health at the Medical School of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald and Head of the Institute for Community Medicine, Medical School of Ernst-Moritz Arndt-University Greifswald. His research topics include epidemiology of environmental risk factors, epidemiology of health care, new concepts of health care and prevention, epidemiology of chronic diseases and epidemiologic methods. He is a member of editorial boards in journals such as International Journal of Epidemiology, European Journal of Epidemiology, Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics, Energy and Environment ? A Multi-Science Journal.