CURRICULUM VITAE

Barbara Kollerits is psychologist and research scientist at the ICF Research Branch of WHO FIC Collaborating Center (DIMDI), IHRS, located at the University of Munich, Germany. She was born 1979 in Innsbruck, Austria.
In 2002, she received her diploma in psychology from the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria. In April 2003 she started the post gradual study "Master in Public Health" at the University of Munich, which will be finished in February 2005. In her master thesis, she evaluated the so-called "risk SCORE" in patients with cardiovascular diseases at the Medical University in Innsbruck, Department of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Health Economics.
Her main points of research at the ICF Research Branch encompass various fields, e.g. focus groups, the interview of patients with chronic conditions, literature reviews, the Delphi exercises, and the development and implementation of linkage rules to link health status measures to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).