Bernadette Peterhans
- Phone: +41 61 284 82 25
- Fax: +41 61 284 81 06
- Email: bernadette.peterhans@unibas.ch
- Profession: RN, MSc in Public Health for Developing Countries
- Position: Course Coordinator
- Department/Unit:
Professional Activities
- Coordinator in charge for the Diploma Course in Health Care and Management in Tropical Countries (3 months core course for the masters degree in International Health) and the advanced module in health district management (3 weeks) responsible for organising, lecturing and running the courses.
- Tutoring MIH students in their course planning and thesis work.
- Cooperating in the tropEd teaching/training network in international health and the Swiss Medicus Mundi Network
- Teaching assignments in different programmes (Swiss master of public health program, nursing science University Basel, Institute of Child Health London, HELP course ICRC, University Geneva, University Copenhagen, summer school Lugano).
- Tailor made courses in strategic programme/ project design and management (Eritrea, Vanuatu, The Solomon Islands, Rumania, North Ossetia, ICRC Geneva)
- Consultancy work for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Swiss Red Cross (SRC) mainly in assessment of health systems and project planning / evaluation for community based health care in conflict and post conflict countries
Higher Education and Qualifications
- 2009 Outcome Mapping, Agridea, Männedorf, CH
- 1998 – 1999: MSc in public health for developing countries, 1999, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
- 1997: Course in Program Planning and Evaluation for Developing Countries, University of Queensland Medical School, Queensland, Australia
- 1996: Certificate Accidents due to Venomous and Poisonous Animals, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel
- 1995: Certificate District Health Management, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel
- 1994: Diploma Health Care and Management for Tropical Countries, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel
- 1988: Cadre School for Nursing, Aarau
- 1980 - 1982: Emergency Nurse, Triemli City Hospital Zurich
- 1975 - 1978: RN, Aarau Cantonal Hospital
Work Experience
- 2001 - present SRC consultant in Eritrea, Sudan (North and South), Ghana mainly project design and evaluation missions
- 1997 - present Course coordinator, Swiss Tropical and Pubic Health Institute, Basel
- 1995 - 1997 Assistant course coordinator, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel
- 1992 - present different ICRC missions in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Lebanon
- 1989 Head Nurse short mission Swiss Medical Unit, Rundu, Namibia
- 1986 - 1992 Deputy head nurse emergency unit, Triemli City Hospital, Zurich
- 1985 - 1986 Emergency nursing Limmattal Hospital, Schlieren
- 1980 - 1984 Emergency nursing Triemli City Hospital, Zurich
- 1979 - 1980 General nursing Triemli City Hospital, Zurich
- 1978 - 1979 General nursing Cantonal Hospital, Baden