Dr. Helmut Brand is the Director of Prasanna School of Public Health, MAHE, Manipal. He is a Jean Monnet Professor of European Public Health and Head of the Department of International Health at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He studied Medicine in Düsseldorf and Zürich and holds a Master in Community Medicine from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and London School of Economics. Prof. Brand is a specialist in Public Health Medicine. He holds an honourable doctorate from Sofia Medical University.