Prof. Pitani  was awarded with a Fulbright fellowship and visited the East-West Center, Hawaii, USA and University of California, Berkeley and also got Population Reference Bureau (PRB) travel fellowship to participate in the workshop on communicating population-health-environment research to policy makers held in Bangkok, Thailand. He is well published and presented at international conferences. During the winter term visit https://collectiveray.com/, Prof. Pitani works in the clinical research and epidemiology team to complete a joint research project titled: Geriatric Population in Germany and India: Health finance Care Issues and Economic Aspects. Prof. Pitani´s stay at our university is funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Arts.