Clemens Martin Auer
Clemens Martin Auer (* 1957 in Miesenbach, Lower Austria) is Special Envoy for Health[1] in the Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection (Austria).
Life
Auer studied philosophy and political science at the University of Vienna and completed his doctoral dissertation in 1991 with Norbert Leser as his doctoral advisor.[2]
From 1993 to 2003 he worked under Vice-Chancellor Erhard Busek and later under Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel as Political Director of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He then served as Chief of Cabinet for Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat of the Federal Ministry of Health and Women (Austria). From 2005 to 2018, he headed up Division I (Health System, Central Coordination) in the Federal Ministry of Health (Austria). From 1993 to 2003, he worked initially under Vice Chancellor Erhard Busek and later under Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel as head of the Political Department of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP). He then served as Chief of Cabinet for Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat of the Federal Ministry of Health and Women (BMGF). From 2005 to 2018, he headed up General Directorate I (Health System, Central Coordination) at the Federal Ministry of Health; chaired the Steering and the Coordination Committee for ELGA, respectively (the national Electronic Health Record System); served as Managing Director of the Federal Health Agency (Bundesgesundheitskommission) and chaired the Fund for the Financing of Private Hospitals (PRIKRAF). He served as representative of the Republic on the Supervisory Board and at the General Meeting (2003 – 2018) of the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit, AGES) and as representative of the Republic at the General Meeting of the Austria Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, GÖG) (2006 – 2018). From May 2012 to 2018, he chaired the eHealth Network of the European Union, a collection of competent authorities for the spread of e-health in Europe. He was elected to this position by the Member States. Up to September 2018, Auer served as Managing Director of the Federal Health Agency (Bundesgesundheitskommission) and chaired the Fund for the Financing of Private Hospitals (PRIKRAF). In his capacity as Directorate General in the Ministry of Health, he was considered to be the central sponsor and architect of all major structural policy reforms in the Austrian health system. His last reform thus far has been the Primary Care Act passed by the Austrian Parliament in June 2017. Its aim is to assure basic medical care on an interdisciplinary and multiprofessional basis. Following the merger of the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Social Affairs in 2018 by Federal Minister Beate Hartinger-Klein, Auer was named Special Envoy for Health.
In September 2018, he was nominated by the European Regional Committee of the WHO to be a member of the Executive Board of the WHO in Geneva for the period of 2019 till 2022. In addition, he is the official candidate of Austria for the position of Regional Director of WHO Europe.
Since 2017, Auer has been president of the European Health Forum Gastein, an interdisciplinary European health conference in which the European Commission, the WHO and the Austrian Ministry of Health take part.
For meritorious services, Auer was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honor in Silver with Star of the Republic of Austria (2014) and the Golden Ring of Honor of the Austrian Social Insurance Institutions (2018).
Authored books
- Universität und Demokratie in Österreich. Zur empirischen und theoretischen Relevanz, Manz'sche, Wien 1997, ISBN 3-214-07290-0 Search this book on
., together with Georg Feith, Walter H. Rechberger - Die Modernismuskrise des Katholizismus. Menschenrechte, Demokratie, die Revolution von 1848 und die katholische Kirche, in: Helmut Wohnout (ed.), Demokratie und Geschichte. Jahrbuch des Karl von Vogelsang-Instituts zur Erforschung der Geschichte der christlichen Demokratie in Österreich, Wien – Köln – Weimar 2 (1998), 118–142
- Die Modernismuskrise des Katholizismus (Teil 2). Autonome Freiheit vs. theonome Wahrheit: Das Katholische Lehramt im Konflikt mit der Meinungs- und Religionsfreiheit, in: Helmut Wohnout (ed.), Demokratie und Geschichte. Jahrbuch des Karl von Vogelsang-Instituts zur Erforschung der Geschichte der christlichen Demokratie in Österreich, Wien – Köln – Weimar 3 (1999), 197–200.
- 1. Mai 2000 – Tag der neuen Arbeit, ÖAAB-Bundesleitung Wien, 2000 (Gesellschaftspolitische Informationen 79), together with Norbert Hartl
- Diesmal. Analysen zur Nationalratswahl 2002, Molden Verlag Wien 2003, ISBN 3-85485-094-8 Search this book on ., together with Michael Fleischhacker
References
- ↑ Bundesministerin und Stabsstellen. Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
- ↑ Clemens Martin Auer. Austria-Forum. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
External links
- Literature by and about Clemens Martin Auer in the German National Library catalogue
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