Bernhard Mann


Bernhard Mann is a Social Scientist and Master of Public Health, Professor emeritus of Health and Social Management at the FHM Bielefeld - University of Applied Sciences, former Professor of Health Management and Vice-President at the University of Applied Sciences Bamberg, Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Social Medicine and Sociology at the University of Koblenz-Landau, at the Berlin School of Public Health - Charité, Medical University, at several Universities of Educational Cooperation as well as of Applied Sciences like in Bochum, Düsseldorf, Essen, Koeln and Wuppertal. He is Public-Health-Coordinator of the German program at the IESS - Institut Européen des Sciences de la Santé Casablanca, Maroc.

Education and career

After college education in London and Paris and the university-entrance diploma in Stuttgart, Bernhard Mann studied political economics, law, sociology, medical sociology and social policy at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the University of Göttingen between 1971 and 1977. Mann acquired a master's degree in social sciences. He could continue his research for PhD in social gerontology and social planning at the University of Kassel, his research for a MPH in public health at Hannover Medical School and his advanced training in total quality management at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology.
Bernhard Mann acted as an assistant professor of sociology at the faculty of economics and social sciences of the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and at the faculty of social sciences of the University of Konstanz, assistant professor of sociology and public health at the faculties of medicine and philosophy of the University of Bonn and the faculty of educational sciences of the University of Koblence-Landau. Mann is an adjunct professor of public health at the FOM - University of Applied Sciences Essen, at the iba - International University of Cooperative Education Heidelberg and as well as an adjunct professor of sociology at the IUBH - International University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf. He was a member of the scientific board of the M.A. program for Health Management in Koblence-Landau elected for certifying the Faculty of Social Sciences in Göttingen and the M.A. program for Health Management in Koblence-Landau. Together with three colleges, he is editor of the Koblence memoire for public health and health management, published by LIT.

Sociological consultation

Bernhard Mann operated as project manager for public-health-projects for the German health ministry in the case of consulting political refugees, the German family ministry in the case of health promotion with elderly handicaps and the Bavarian social ministry in the case of the social management with elderly handicaps. He was consultant at the Germany Society for Rehabilitation and at the Institute for Vocational Training, Labour Market and Social Policy, Offenbach am Main, is senator of the German Association of Sociologists and belongs to the jury in order to select the German city with the best quality of life for the elderly 2010. Mann was appointed to be an honorary judge at the administrative court in Ansbach and Köln, especially in the cases of the procedure for granting the Right of asylum. He is a member of the head of the Social Democratic Party in Unkel, a place Willy Brandt settled and died. Bernhard Mann is living in a house in Unkel, where Willy Brandt settled.

International projects

Mann was funded for international studies in Japan, India, Mexico, England and France. In 1970 Mann was a selected delegate of the German youth to the World Youth Conference organized in Tokyo and Osaka / Japan under his patronage the excellence akihito. In India he held a research project in Bapagram about the Basic education by Mahatma Gandhi in comparison with the pedagogical concepts by Paulo Freire. In 1996 he was a visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh. From 2003 to 2005 Bernhard Mann was elected as adviser for the Programme national de recherche 45 - Problemes de l´Etat social, Suisse and in 2009 as adviser for Health Sociology for the European Union at the Republic of Cyprus. 2017 Bernhard Mann was keynote speaker with a Certificate of Recognition at the 3rd World Congress of Public Health, Nutrition and Epidemiology held during 13–14 November 2017 in Osaka, Japan. His presentation was about The Development of public health in Germany. 2018 Mann was keynote speaker and member at the organizing committees at international congresses in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Paris, France. Mann is coordinator of the German Programm of the IESS - Institut Européen des Sciences de la Santé Casablanca, Member of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region and Partner of the City University of New York. Since 2008 he is listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World.

Willy-Brandt-Forum

Bernhard Mann is a Politician - representative of the Social Democratic Party - and a member of the Forum in memory of Willy Brandt.

German writer

The research in the view of sociology, public health, social planning and social gerontology is documented in various publications:
Basic Education by Mahatma Gandhi and Education for liberation by Paulo Freire aims to develop the whole personality. The accommodation, adequate supply and health care of political refugees needs to offer psychosocial services. The elderly entering in a retirement home needs to protect their personal and social identity and the support of elderly handicaps in a nursing home require's quality management. In the light of the increasing violence, a burden for the health as the World Health Organization reports, the development of Public Health will be a very important issue.

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