Healthy at Work Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Markus Wiencke holds a PhD in psychology and an MA in social and
cultural anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin. He has training as a
systemic therapist and counselor. In his work at the Federal Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) in Berlin, he focuses on structures and
strategies for health and safety at work. Previously, he was visiting research fellow for the Healthy at Work
(GiB) project at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. Further, he has
worked as the therapeutic head of ward for a psychiatric clinic and as a management
consultant. He has written on the social and cultural dimensions of health (promotion),
based on his fieldwork in Germany, Brazil, Chile, India, and Tanzania.
Mirella Cacace holds
a PhD in economics and currently works as postdoctoral researcher at the Research
Center on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM) at the University of Bremen,
Germany. Her previous positions include analyst with RAND Europe and visiting
professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. In 2008 and 2009, she
was a Harkness Fellow in International Health Policy and Practice, sponsored by
the Commonwealth Fund, and hosted by Columbia University in New York City. Her
main areas of research concern institutional economics and international
healthcare systems, especially in Germany and the United States.

Sebastian Fischer has been a
postdoctoral researcher at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany, where
he also received his PhD in organizational psychology. He researched the
influence of situational characteristics on employees with different
personalities. His research focuses on explaining employee
behaviors and feelings ranging from stress and withdrawal from work to
innovative and proactive behaviors. Recently, he joined market research focusing
on outcome perspectives of innovation rather than on processes.