Manfred Zahorka
- Phone: +41 61 284 81 58
- Fax: +41 61 284 81 03
- Email: manfred.zahorka@unibas.ch
- Profession: Senior Public Health expert
- Position: Head of Unit
- Department/Unit:
Professional Activities
- Project Management and Consultancies in the field of Public Health with a focus on Reproductive Health, Operations Research and Quality Management
- Long-term project experience in African, Central and East European countries
- Quality Manager in SCIH. Present tasks:
- Team leader Moldova Swiss Perinatology Project, Romania Quality Assurance in Health, Rwanda-Swiss public health programme, Burundi-Swiss Health Systems support programme, RDC-Swiss Health systems support programme in South Kivu Province.
Higher Education & Qualifications
- Short courses, intercultural communication, organisational analysis and development, outcome mapping
- PhD cand. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tulane University New Orleans, USA
- Masters of Public Health, Tulane University New Orleans, USA
- Short courses in Emergency Care and Occupational Health
- Accreditation for Family Medicine and Tropical Medicine, Bavarian Physicians Board, Munich Germany
- Medical studies, Marburg and Freiburg Universities
Work Experience
- 2002 to date Project Manager and Technical Expert in Public Health, at the Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland. Key areas of work/main responsibilities: Team leader Romanian Swiss Neonatology Project, Team leader Gambia German Family Planning Project, Advice on MCH and Reproductive Health including Family Planning, Perinatology and Safe Motherhood.
- 1997 – 2001 GTZ Team Leader in Banjul, The Gambia. Projects included Gambia German Family Planning Programme, Multimedia HealthPromotion Project, European Program for young professionals, "SteppingStones Project", various GTZ initiatives.
- 1996 – 1997 GTZ Expert short term contracts, GTZ, Germany: Evaluation and planning, implementation of the Gambia German Family Planning Programme.
- 1994 – 1996 Research and Teaching Assistant Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. Main subject area: Epidemiology.
- 1987 – 1991 Volunteer for German Volunteer Service (DED) in Kouandé and Cove, Benin. Maintasks: Deputy Head physician of 60 bed district hospital (clinical workin surgery, obstetrics, tropical and internal medicine); Public Health adviser to district authorities.
- 1985 – 1986 House officer, Philipps University Hospital, Marburg, Germany: surgery and internal medicin.