Hon. Prof. (FH) Dr. Bernhard Rupp, MBA, is a health economist (Emory University, Atlanta; University of Toronto) and lawyer (University of Vienna). Certified ISO 9000 auditor. University lecturer and researcher in public health, health economics, and health technology, currently active at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences Krems, the Medical University of Vienna, and Hochschule Campus Wien.

Since September 2026 he is Senior Research Fellow at Economica research institute. He has been Head of the Lower Austrian Health Professions Register Authority from 2020 to 2026. For a 20-year period (2006–2026) he was Head of the Health Policy Department, Chamber of Labor Lower Austria. From 1998 to 2005 he served as Managing Director at NÖGUS (hospital planning and financing); psychiatric coordinator for Lower Austria.

His research focuses on public-private partnerships in health care; harm reduction; economic evaluation of smart homes and ambient assisted living; health workforce planning; legal enforcement in innovative therapies; access to pediatric rehabilitation; fraud and corruption control in health care.

Among other functions, Prof Rupp has been a Member of the Supervisory Board and Finance Committee, NÖ Landesgesundheitsagentur (2000–2005); Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, HSSG Lower Austria; board member, Cholesterol Alliance; Scientific Board member, PRAEVENIRE; Deputy Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Austrian Academy of Occupational Medicine; expert lay judge, Supreme Court (1997–2001).

He is a frequent speaker at international conferences on harm reduction and addiction medicine (Vienna, Brussels, Bratislava, Berlin, Prague, 2022–2026); author of publications on health policy, occupational medicine, and rehabilitation.