Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
 

Til Stürmer is the Nancy A. Dreyer distinguished professor in the Department of Epidemiology at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He is also the co-director of the NC Diabetes Research Center Human Studies Consultation Core. As former director of the Department of Epidemiology Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and past president of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE), he has been able to assemble an outstanding multidisciplinary team of researchers with expertise in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, internal medicine, geriatrics, and biostatistics from within and outside of UNC. His research team focuses on advancing study design and analytic methods to provide valid evidence for comparative benefit and harm of clinically relevant treatment alternatives in older adults. Funded by the National Institute on Aging since 2005, his research team has published more than 100 (>390 total) papers with a focus on developing and implementing novel methods to answer therapeutic questions of importance to older adults in the absence of alternative evidence.
 

Til Stürmer teaches ‘Pharmacoepidemiology and comparative effectiveness research’ together with Jennifer Lund on Monday 15 June and Tuesday 16 June 2026.