Secretary & International Strategic Advisor, Global Expert – Empirical Research
Specialty: Family Medicine
Dieter Kotte is a Founding Member of the International Nature and Forest Therapy Alliance (INFTA) and the Founding Member and President of INFTA (Germany). As INFTA’s Secretary & International Strategic Advisor, he is responsible for administrative and organisational oversight, incl. international research collaborations, development and supervision of training standards, certification and quality control issues. He holds several academic degrees, among which is a PhD in Empirical Research Methods from the University of Hamburg, Germany. His habilitation thesis for a full professorship was accepted by Humboldt University, Berlin. He led and collaborated in many international research projects, ranging from measuring reading literacy across 40 countries, economic literacy in Queensland to Germany’s first federally-funded research project on the effectiveness of Forest Therapy as evidence-based Public health practice. He held several leading positions at universities in different countries and provided his expertise in monitoring & evaluation as well as policy development to international organisations, such as the ADB, World Bank and UNESCO. In Australia, Dieter is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Australia.