Biography
Jörg Haslbeck is Dean of the School of Social Work at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland. He completed a BSc and MSc in Nursing at Witten/Herdecke University and earned his Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) at Bielefeld University’s School of Public Health, focusing on chronic illness and medication self-management. As a 2008–09 Commonwealth Fund / B. Braun Stiftung Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, Joerg was placed at Yale University School of Nursing, where he explored self-management support for vulnerable older adults living alone with chronic conditions. He held academic and postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Nursing Science in Basel and at Bielefeld University, working on patient engagement and chronic care. From 2010 to 2017 he worked at the Careum Foundation, Zurich, piloting evidence-based peer-led self-management support in chronic illness, before moving to the Swiss Cancer League as Head of the Follow-up Care and interim Co-Head of the Departement of Prevention, Counseling and Follow-up Care. From 2021 to 2026, he acted as Vice Director for Higher Education, Deputy CEO and Professor at the Careum School of Health, Part of the Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences in Zurich.
Joerg's research and policy work centres on patient and public involvement, health literacy, self-management support, empowerment, and cancer survivorship, including contributions to WHO Europe’s landmark report on health literacy and to Swiss national strategies in non-communicable diseases and cancer. Since 2026, Joerg is a fellow of the Sciana Health Leaders Network of Salzburg Global.
