Barbara Matthys

Professional Activities

  • Operational research: rapid appraisals and epidemiological surveys with focus on malaria and intestinal parasitic diseases
  • Health-research linked consultancies
  • Project performance monitoring and evaluation: development of data collection and outreach supervision tools for malaria control programs, health facility assessments, data quality audits, on-site data verifications

Higher Education & Qualifications

  • PhD, 2006 in Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
  • MSc, 2002 in Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland   

Work Experience

2007-present

Project associate at the Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss Tropical Institute, Switzerland: Technical, scientific and administrative support to projects and research activities.

  • Technical officer for the USAID | PMI ‘Improving Malaria Diagnostics Project’ (IMaD) in 15 selected African countries. Project performance monitoring and evaluation. Countries: Benin, Liberia
  • Evaluation of the immunization coverage monitoring methodology funded by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
  • Data quality audits for the Immunization Programme (GAVI, Côte d’Ivoire), on-site data verifications of the reporting system of malaria, TB and HIV Aids Programs (Global Fund, Burkina Faso, Niger)
  • Scientific and technical backstopping of a national micronutrient status survey in Tajikistan (UNICEF, Tajikistan)
  • Rapid appraisals of the malaria situation with regard to irrigated agriculture and of iodine deficiency and helminthes in schools (SDC, Tajikistan)
  • Mapping and setting up of a web platform on antimalarials (ACT) research initiatives for researchers and policy makers (UNICEF UNDP World Bank WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases – TDR, Switzerland)