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Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg
Country:
Germany
Parliament:
German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag)
Party:
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
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Other current affiliations:
Health Policy Advisor,
Board Member of Transparency International Germany,
Honorary Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
Previous other affiliations:
MP 1994-2009
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Bio:
Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg is a german physician and Health Policy Adviser. He is an Honorary Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) and a Board Member of Transparency International Germany.
His European initiatives and reports brought important issues such as "Faked Pandemics", private military companies, the role of media for democracy, palliative medicine or genetic testing and genetically modified organisms on the political agenda.
Before getting elected Member of the German Bundestag, Wolfgang Wodarg worked as a ship´s doctor, port health authority and in the Bernhard-Nocht-Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hamburg, practiced medicine in several clinics and was the director of a public health institute in Northern Germany. He initiated and chaired for ten years the Specialist Committee on Environmental Health of the Chamber of Physicians (FAGUSH) and was a member of the Epidemiology Task Force in his country Schleswig-Holstein.
From 1994 to 2009, he was member of the German Parliament, serving on the Health Committee during his five mandates and since 2005 in the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development.
From 1998 until January 2010, Dr. Wodarg was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE). Since 2002 he has been Vice-Chairman of the European Socialist Group, since 2006 speaker of the German Social Democrats and deputy head of the German delegation in Strasbourg. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Culture, Education and Science and afterwards Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health until January 2009. Parallel to that, he was a Member of the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe.
Recently he was rapporteur on "Private military and security firms and the erosion of the state monopoly on the use of force” for the Political Affairs Committee and on "Palliative care: a model for innovative health and social policies” for the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee.
Dr. Wodarg is a lecturer at the University of Flensburg and President of the Rheuma-Liga Schleswig-Holstein.
