Prof. Dr. Jan Dietrich Reinhardt studied Sociology, Philosophy and Social Psychology at the Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf and the University of Trier. He received his “Habilitation” (certification of eligibility for full professorship in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland) in Health Sciences from the University of Lucerne in 2015. Dr. Reinhardt is currently employed as a full professor, and director of Disaster Health Sciences at IDMR, Sichuan University. He also serves as Chair of the Committee for Disaster Rehabilitation of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM), an NGO in official relation with WHO. Dr. Reinhardt has been leading two research groups in Switzerland for seven years, supervised numerous PhD and Master students, and has over 70 publications in international journals listedin the Science Citation Index. He has participated in Chinese research on disaster rehabilitation since more than 6 years.

Representative research results.

Books/Book chapters

1. Reinhardt, Jan D.& James E. Gosney (2015): Natural disaster, health-related aspects. In:James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social &Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 16. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 315–319.

2. Reinhardt, Jan D.& Marcel W. Post (2015): Disability, psychological and social aspects. In:James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social &Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 16. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 467–471.

3. Bertschy,Sue &Jan D. Reinhardt (2013): The depiction of olympics and paralympics in the Swiss Print Media. In: Otto Schantz & Keith Gilbert (eds): Heroes or Zeros? The Media’s Perceptions of Paralympic Sport.

4. Reinhardt, Jan D. (2013): Contribution to Chapter “Enabling environments”. In: WHO (ed.): International Perspectives in Spinal Cord Injury. Geneva: WHO press.

Journal papers

1. Reinhardt JD, Zheng Y, Xu G, Lu X, Yin Y, Liu S, Gao Q, Xiong X, He C, Li H, Li J.People with Spinal Cord Injury in China.Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2017 Feb;96(2 Suppl 1):S61-S65.

2. Gross-Hemmi MH1, Post MW, Ehrmann C, Fekete C, Hasnan N, Middleton JW, Reinhardt JD, Strøm V, Stucki G; International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey (InSCI) Group.Study Protocol of the International Spinal Cord Injury (InSCI) Community Survey.Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2017 Feb;96(2 Suppl 1):S23-S34.

3. Reinhardt JD, Post MWM, Fekete C, Trezzini B, Brinhof M, on behalf of the SwiSCI study group: Labor market integration of people with disabilities: Results from the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Cohort Study. PloS One11(11)

4. Solvang PK, Hanisch H, Reinhardt JD: The rehabilitation research matrix: producingknowledge at micro, meso, and macro levels. Disabil Rehabil, September 2016

5. Leiulfsrud AS, Ruoranen K, Ostermann A, Reinhardt JD. The meaning of employment from the perspective of persons with spinal cord injuries in six European countries.Work. 2016 Sep 8.

6. Reinhardt JD, Zhang X, Prodinger P, Ehrmann-Bostan C, Selb M, Stucki G, Li J: Towards the system-wide implementation of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health in routine clinical practice: Empirical findings of a pilot study from Mainland China. J Rehabil Med. 2016 May 12.

7. Reinhardt JD, Ballert C, Brinkhof MW, Post MW:Perceived impact of environmental barriers on participation among people living with spinal cord injury in Switzerland. J Rehabil Med. 2016 Mar 1;48(2):210-8.

8. Li L,Reinhardt JD [shared first authorship], Zhang X, Pennycott A, & Li J: (2015)Physical Function, Pain, Quality of Life and Life Satisfaction of Amputees from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake: A Prospective Cohort Study. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine. May;47(5):466-471

9. Ruoranen K, Post MW, Juvalta S, &Reinhardt JD(2015):Participation and integration from the perspective of persons with spinal cord injuries from five European countries. J Rehabil Med 47(3):216-222.

10. Ballert C, Post MW, Brinkhof M, &Reinhardt JD(2015):Psychometric Properties Of The Nottwil Environmental Factors Inventory Short Form (NEFI-SF). Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 96(2):233-240

Scientific research project

International spinal cord injury survey, Sichuan, China

Cultivation of talents

PhD and Master supervisor for epidemiology and biostatistics major, and teaching postgraduate course “Public health and natural disaster”, teaching master students inphysical therapy and occupational therapy major joint program “Critical inquiry” and “Research methods”, teaching undergraduate course “ disaster data analysis and life education”