Jerome Bickenbach

Member of the Center for Rehabilitation in Global Health Systems, Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine at the University of Lucerne
Consultant with the World Bank, UNICEF and OECD

Until December 2025, Prof. Jerome Bickenbach was a member of the ICF Research Branch Steering Committee.

As a consultant to World Health Organization, Prof. Jerome Bickenbach, PhD, LL.B worked on developing and finalizing the ICF. His research spans various aspects of disability studies, including quality of life of persons with disability, disability epidemiology, participatory action, inclusion, modelling disability statistics for population health surveys, the relationship between disability and health, and the ethics and the application of ICF to monitoring the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 

A Steering Committee of the ICF Research Branch and Senior Research at Swiss Paraplegic Research (Switzerland) until December 2025, Prof. Bickenbach had been instrumental in advancing the implementation of functioning and the ICF in healthcare and other application areas. His tireless work as an advocate for functioning and the ICF continues well into retirement.