Prof. Dr. Siegfried Geyer
Former Head of the Research and Teaching Unit Medical Sociology
Graduate sociologist
Phone: (0511) 532 - 6679
Fax: (0511) 532 - 4214
geyer.siegfried@mh-hannover.de
Born on Sept. 19, 1956 in Jugenheim/ Rhineland-Palatinate
Qualifications
1977 - 1984 Studied sociology and psychology at the University of Mannheim, graduated in sociology (Dipl.-Soz.)
1989 Doctorate in Social Psychology, University of Mannheim
1998 Habilitation in Medical Sociology, University of Düsseldorf
Professional background
1984 - 1985 Research assistant, Chair of Social Psychology, University of Mannheim (Prof. Dr. M. Irle).
1985 - 1992 Research Assistant, Institute for Medical Sociology, University of Marburg (Prof. Dr. J. Siegrist)
1992 - 1998 Research Assistant, Institute for Medical Sociology, University of Düsseldorf (Prof. Dr. J. Siegrist)
1998 - 2002 Lecturer in Medical Sociology in the Department of General Medicine, Hannover Medical School
2002 Appointment as adjunct professor, Hannover Medical School
2003 - 2005 Appointment as Acting Head of the Department of General Medicine, Hannover Medical School
2005 - 2024 Head of Medical Sociology as an independent Department, Hannover Medical School
10/2013 - 03/2014 Member of the research group "Normative Aspects of Public Health" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research/ Bielefeld (ZIF)
Functions in professional organizations
2000 - 2003 Member of the Board of the European Society of Health and Medical Sociology
2003 - 2007 President of the European Society of Health and Medical Sociology
2014 - 2018 Chairman of the German Society for Medical Sociology
Academic functions:
- Member of a working group of the International Agency for Research against Cancer (IARC/WHO)
- Member of the Control Commission of the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions
Awards:
Walter Siegenthaler Prize 2016 for the paper Engelmann/ Grote/ Miemietz/ Vaske/ Geyer published in DMW: "Weggegangen-Platz vergangen?" DMW 2015, 140: e28-e35.
- Morbidity compression and its alternative concepts
- Social inequalities in health, disease and mortality
- Cancer epidemiology
- The importance of social and psychological factors in the onset and course of diseases (research projects on cancer and cardiovascular diseases)
- Development of research methods: construction and testing of questionnaires, development of assessment-based evaluation procedures, secondary data analyses with health insurance data
- German Research Foundation
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Hans Böckler Foundation
- German Cancer Aid Foundation
- Research Council of Belgium,
- Health Research Council of New Zealand
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France)
- Swiss National Fund (Switzerland)
- Reviewer for 22 national and international scientific journals
- Co-editor of the International Journal of Public Health (2011)
- Co-editor of the journal Social Theory and Health
- Member of the scientific advisory board of the Centro di Ricerca Interdepartementale sui Sistemi Sanitari e le Politiche di Welfare of the University of Catanzaro/ Italy
- Center for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University and Karolinska Institute; Prof. Denny Vagerö (Sweden)
- Department of Health Research, University of Bern; Prof. Dr. Thomas Abel (Switzerland)
- Faculty of Sociology, University of Pamplona; Prof. Lourdes Lostao and University of Madrid; Prof. Enrique Regidor (Spain)
- Oslo University College, University of Oslo; Prof. Espen Dahl (Norway)
- University College of London; Prof. David Blane (Great Britain)
- Member of the Doctoral Committee of the MHH for the Dr. Public Health
- Representative of the Senate of the MHH for student exchange with France
- Module coordinator for the module "Empirical Research Methods in Public Health" of the Public Health study programmes at MHH (Epidemiology, Statistics, Research Methods)
- Chairman of the Examination Board of the Master's program in Public Health at the MHH
Safieddine, B., Geyer, S., Sperlich, S. et al. Factors associated with health-related quality of life in women with paid work at breast cancer diagnosis: a German repeated cross-sectional study over the first five years after primary surgery. BMC Cancer 25, 98 (2025). h ttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-025-13491-8