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Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Professor at the University of Education Freiburg, Head of Doctoral Program Health Equity, Dept. of Public Health & Health Education, is experienced in empirical research in the sociology of education and health inequality research. He has led several projects, funded e.g. by EU, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, German Research Foundation. He is responsible for several multi-method based, empirical projects and evaluation studies as well as developmental projects in the realm of school-based health promotion. He has worked on the topic of the “knowledge society”, about functional illiteracy, and the relationship between education and health.