Matt Commers has a full-time (1.0 FTE) appointment as Assistant Professor of European Public Health with the Department of International Health at Maastricht University.

His teaching responsibilities include course coordination, lecturing, and advising in the Bachelor and Master of European Public Health programs. Topics include: comparative health care systems and health policy; cross-border care and public health, epidemiology and social epidemiology, prevention and education through intervention in behavior and environment; theory of determinants of public health and research on the meaning of health to people; and communication between "science and society”. 

His research interests currently include: cross-border care issues, changes in the legal landscape, organization, and financing of Dutch health insurers and providers (also as seen in an international comparative light); the funding and organization of international health organizations; health promotion and education intervention and evaluation; climate change and its real and anticipated impact on public health; and public mental health including the impact of natural disasters.

Dr. Commers received his Ph.D. from Maastricht University in May of 2001 for his research focusing on the role of the Dutch public in health policy formulation. He holds a Master’s degree in Health Policy and Administration from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s degree with a double major in English and History from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

From 2001-2006, he dedicated five years full-time to building Commers Health Consulting, securing an international presence for the consultancy with clients such as the Dutch Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Health of Japan, and Plan International. In Summer of 2006, Dr. Commers relocated with his family to the United States. He joined Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis in July, 2006, and spent three years with the hospital as a strategic planner and state lobbyist.

In August of 2007, Commers was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of global health studies at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, a formal appointment he currently maintains.