Gerold Stucki

Gerold Stucki
gerold.stucki@unilu.ch
Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine at the University of Lucerne
Co-Director, Center for Rehabilitation in Global Health Systems
Until December 2025, Prof. Gerold Stucki was Director of the ICF Research Branch.
For over 25 years, Prof. Stucki's had been collaborating with the World Health Organization's (WHO) Classification, Terminology and Data Standards team in an international effort to implement the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in rehabilitation and the health sector in general. To facilitate human functioning sciences research, Prof. Stucki had initiated the ICF Research Branch at the former Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as an international research network under the auspices of WHO´s German Collaborating Center for the Family of International Classifications.
As Director of Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF). from 2005-2025, Prof. Stucki continued his instrumental role in promoting the implementation of functioning and the ICF in healthcare and in other application areas. This has continued in his role as Co-Leader of the Lucerne Initiative for Functioning, Health and Well-Being (LIFE). The LIFE Initiative advances health and well-being in the face of illness and aging by anchoring the WHO concept of functioning as a new paradigm of health. It fosters interdisciplinary research and drives the reorientation of health and social systems towards lived health.