Prof. Dr. Wilm Quentin is the Chair of Planetary & Public Health in the Faculty of Law, Business and Economics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Prior to his appointment at the University of Bayreuth, Prof. Quentin worked for almost 15 years at the Department of Health Care Management, Berlin University of Technology (TUB) in Germany, where he received his formal lecturer qualification (Habilitation) in Public Health in 2017. He is a medical doctor and holds an MSc in Health Policy, Planning & Financing (HPPF) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the London School of Economics (LSE). He studied medicine and political sciences in Würzburg, Munich, Madrid, Leipzig and Marburg. Currently, Prof. Quentin is leading the German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention (G-WAC). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal “Health Policy” and an editor of the European Observatory’s Health Care Systems in Transition Series. Prof. Quentin serves as a consultant for international Organisations (WHO EURO, WHO AFRO, World Bank), national governments (e.g. Ghana, Belgium, Slovenia) and other actors (national health insurance in Poland and South Korea). He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institut National de Santé Publique in Abidjan and holds a Visiting Professor position at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana.