Ines Steffens
Ines Steffens is the editor-in-chief of Eurosurveillance. She succeeded Karl Ekdahl in this role in 2011.
Career
Prior to joining Eurosurveillance, Steffens worked at the Robert Koch Institute, where she was editor-in-chief of the , Germany's national epidemiology journal. She joined Eurosurveillance as managing editor in 2006 and became editor-in-chief in 2011. She spoke on behalf of Eurosurveillance at the 2015 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases.Steffens is a member of the editorial board of the European [Food Safety Authority]'s journal. She was a member of the European Association of Science Editors Gender Policy Committee and the peer review committee in 2017. In addition, she was a member of the associations programme committee for the 2020 conference
where she presented a virtual talk on how the COVID-19 pandemic had affected ''Eurosurveillance''