Nathalie Roebbel

Nathalie Röbbel is the Lead for WHO’s work on Urban Health at the WHO, in the Department for Health Determinants, Promotion and Prevention.
Over the past years she has been in charge of the development of WHO’s new guide for decision makers – Taking a strategic approach to urban health. She is also responsible for the development of an urban healthy capacity building programme.
Prior to this, she was leading WHO's work on air pollution and housing in the Department for Environment, Climate Change and Health. One of her main areas of work was the development of WHO Housing and Health Guidelines and WHO’s efforts to address slum upgrading through housing policies and other social policies and interventions.
Before joining WHO HQ, she worked as a technical officer at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, where she was responsible for environmental health performance reviews and involved in several urban health-related projects.
Ms Röbbel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn, Germany.