Gertraud Stadler

Gertraud Stadler is a psychologist and Professor of Gender-Sensitive Prevention Research at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, where she has directed the Institute of Gender in Medicine since 2019. Her central interest is in personalized prevention interventions and the question of how individuals and couples can change their everyday behavior in order to remain healthy throughout their lives and find better ways to dealing with illness. 

She studied psychology at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and completed her doctorate at the University of Hamburg in 2006. She subsequently held research positions at Columbia University in New York and a lectureship in health psychology at the University of Aberdeen. Her research examines health behaviour, personalised prevention, gender differences in healthcare and the influence of social relationships on health and well-being. Current projects address gender-sensitive prevention, medication safety and behavioural interventions. She is a member of the board of BBAW’s Interdisciplinary Working Group “Targeted Prevention – Innovative Methods and Approaches for Disease Prevention”. In 2014, she received the Early Career Award from the International Association of Applied Psychology.