Head of the Competence Centre for Health Promotion and Health Care at Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, Austria
Peter Nowak: 1985 – 2008 research and organisational development projects in healthcare and health promotion at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Sociology of Health and Medicine (Vienna). 2008 - 2011 Senior Researcher for user and patient participation in healthcare and Deputy Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Health Promotion Research (Vienna). Since 2011 at the Austrian Public Health Institute: initially as Deputy Director of the Federal Institute on Quality in Healthcare, 2013-2020 Head of the Department Health and Society, since 2016 also director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Care, since 2022 Head of the Competence Centre Health Promotion and Healthcare focusing on national strategies in health promotion, health literacy, patient-centred care, communication in healthcare.