Head of Department

Deputy Dept. Head

Claudia Kessler

Communications

Joanne Blackwell

Job Opportunities

Job Offers

About the SCIH

Improving Health Systems Worldwide

Approximately 100 professional staff members, representing 24 nationalities, currently work for the SCIH in Basel and abroad. Our backgrounds range from public health and medicine, epidemiology, health economics, and engineering, to sociology, social geography, public administration and organizational development, medical anthropology, education, financial auditing, pharmaceutical medicine, and pharmacology.


We are globally active and have representatives based in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Niger, Romania, Rwanda, Tanzania, Romania, Tajikistan and the Ukraine, in addition to Local Fund Agents in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon (PPSAC), and Nicaragua.

SCIH staff is involved in teaching and training at various Swiss and international universities and contribute actively to the international discussion on health development. We regularly publish papers in peer reviewed journals and support and supervise students in their research projects. An annual Spring Swiss TPH Symposium on international health issues is also organised by the SCIH.