Handbook of Disability, Work and Health

Ute Bültmann is full Professor of Work and Health in the Department of Health Sciences, Community and Occupational Medicine at the University Medical Center Groningen/University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She completed both her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. From 2003 until 2007, she worked at the National Institute of Occupational Health in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research includes the epidemiology of work and (mental) health and the measurement of health-related functioning at work. In addition to collaborative work and health research in Canada, she is affiliated with the National Research Centre for the Working Environment in Copenhagen (DK) and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (SE). She is Vice-President of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) Section “Social Security, Work and Health.” She (co-)authored more than 200 scientific publications. Her current research activities focus on work and health research from a life-course perspective with strong policy and practice links. She is a VICI laureate of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for her research on “Today’s youth is tomorrow’s workforce: Generation Y at work.”

Johannes Siegrist is currently Senior Professor of work stress research at Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf in Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Freiburg i. Br. in 1969, and he held professorships for medical sociology at the Universities of Marburg and Duesseldorf from 1973 to 2012. He was visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University (USA) (1981) and at Utrecht University (NE) 1994). With his long-standing research on healthadverse psychosocial work environments and social inequalities in health, he has published more than 500 papers and book chapters and several international books. In addition to his collaboration in distinct European research networks, he served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, and he chaired several national and international academic societies. Among other distinctions, he is a member of Academia Europaea (London) and a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.