Keywords: Health Equity, Paediatrics and Child Health, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Obesity & Overweight, Public Health, Clinical Trials, Evidence Synthesis, Individual Participant Data, Prospective Meta-Analysis, Research Integrity

Career: Anna Lene Seidler is a professor at the University Medicine Rostock, where she holds the chair of Health Equity in Child Health at the Clinic for Psychiatry, Neurology, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy in Children and Adolescents and at the German Centre for Child and Youth Health (site Greifswald/Rostock). Previously, she was a research group leader at the National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. She was also a visiting scientist at the QUEST Center at the Charité Berlin and the University College London. Prof. Seidler has an outstanding international network. She is an Honorary Affiliate at the University of Sydney, Australia, an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at University College London, UK, and the main point of contact for the international Cochrane Prospective Meta-Analysis Methods Group. She is also the research area leader of the Translating Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (EPOCH-Translate) Centre for Research Excellence in Australia.

Main field of research: Prof. Seidler heads large, international and interdisciplinary research consortia. She develops innovative methods for analysing heterogeneous, global data sets in order to answer healthcare-related questions in the field of child and adolescent health. As a basis for evidence-based prevention and care programmes and guidelines, she summarises international studies – as prospectively as possible in their planning phase and as ‘individual participant data’. The participation of various stakeholders (e.g. patients, political decision-makers, guideline commissions) in these consortia is particularly important to her. The health equity perspective plays a crucial role in reducing the social gradient and analysing tailored prevention approaches for different population groups.