Sophia Schlette, MPH, is a temporary Senior International Advisor at Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Policy. Prior to joining Kaiser in January 2009, Sophia has been a Senior Expert Health Policy at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German non-profit foundation and think-tank. At the foundation, she built and directs the International Network Health Policy & Reform since 2002 (www.hpm.org). The Health Policy Network brings together experts from 20 industrialized countries who regularly report on health policy developments. Reform experiences are used to inform German decision-makers on policy options based on international experiences in areas such as integrated care, primary care, workforce issues, prevention, pay-for-performance, or mental health integration. To this end, Sophia arranged a number of events with international experts and key health care stakeholders in Germany. Similarly she coordinated an AcademyHealth Study Tour of US experts to Germany in fall 2007. A lot of her work centers on knowledge dialogue and translational work between research, policy, and practice. In recent years Sophia was also detached to the German Federal Ministry of Health as international advisor, supporting activities during the German EU presidency in 2007, coordinating study visits of the Minister to the USA (California in 2007, Massachusetts in 2008), and occasionally serving as an English speech writer for the Minister.
A political scientist by training, Sophia’s public health career began in 1989 in Africa working with UNICEF and the WHO. After earning an MPH in Health Policy and Management from Harvard in 1993, she consulted in several Latin American countries on behalf of the German cooperation and also for international organizations before shifting focus to domestic and industrialized countries’ health care issues in the mid-90s. Sophia speaks German, English, French, Spanish and Italian, and she loves to travel, bike, read, dance, and eat.
ZEFQ is the only technical journal that occasionally appears in international rankings. The paper is in German but has an English summary; the English version of the article is still 'under construction'.
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