Nikolaus Mezger
Steering Committee / Next Generation Youth Council
Research Associate, Centre for Planetary Health Policy
Nikolaus is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, currently as a research
fellow in environmental epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet and as a
junior doctor in geriatrics at Ersta hospital (Sweden).
He holds a PhD in public health from Martin Luther University
Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), for which he examined clinical cancer
epidemiology through field research in Sub-Saharan Africa (Namibia,
Republic of Congo). Nikolaus also holds a master’s in public health
epidemiology from Karolinska Institutet, where he is engaged in
supporting the institution’s climate and health strategy, having served
as a two-time planetary health campus ambassador and has co-led three
iterations of the Planetary Health Report Card.
Nikolaus also works with the German Climate and Health Alliance (KLUG)
with a focus on research and policy in societal and health care
resilience facing extreme weather events. He teaches at multiple
universities in Sweden and Germany, speaks six languages, and sings in a
choir.