Tilman Kühn takes up professorial chair in Public Health Nutrition

In mid-November, MedUni Vienna and the University of Vienna appointed Tilman Kühn to the dual professorial chair in Public Health Nutrition (§98). At MedUni Vienna, the nutritionist and epidemiologist from Heidelberg is assigned to the Center for Public Health. His principal areas of interest are the dietary aspects of public health. Tilman Kühn is focussed on the prevention of diet-related diseases (with an emphasis on obesity and cancer) and on plant-based diets. Kühn's dual professorship in Public Health Nutrition at MedUni Vienna and the University of Vienna covers a comparatively new discipline, which draws on aspects of public health and nutritional science and, in particular, encompasses the social, economic and political contexts that impact the lives of certain population groups, making them more prone to diet-related disease. "The consideration of nutrition as an important determinant of individual health is fundamentally changing in light of the pressures imposed by climate and environmental crises," explains Kühn. "The EAT-Lancet Commission's 2019 report shows that, if nothing else, eating a more plant-based diet will be critical in helping to achieve the 1.5° global warming target from the Paris Agreement.