Karin Wiedenmayer

Professional Activities

  • Project management and consultancies in the field of public health and the pharmaceutical sector with a focus on assessment, resource management, capacity building and system strengthening (policy, supply, financing, medicine use)
  • Operational research on use, access and delivery of medicines and vaccines
  • Consultant for the City Council and  Ministry of Health, Tanzania, Sino Project Tajikistan, the World Health Organization and the World Bank
  • LFA team leader on behalf of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)
  • Academic appointment with the Faculty of Pharmacy of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Senior lecturer and coordinator of international MIH courses. Continuing education for Swiss pharmacists.
  • Co-author of "Managing Pharmaceuticals in International Health" (Birkhäuser) and WHO publication "Developing Pharmacy Practice- a focus on patient care"

Higher Education & Qualification

  • Doctorate in Clinical Pharmacy, PharmD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
  • Masters Degree, MSc Pharmacy, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Certificates in promotion of rational drug use, managing drug supply, public health modules, tropical epidemiology and history of African civilization

Work Experience

  • 1996 to date Project Manager and Technical Expert in public health pharmacology at the Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
    Key areas of work/main responsibilities: pharmaceutical sector assessment and support, project management, PhD and diploma supervision, operational research, teaching, training coordination.
  • 1994-1995 RA/QA Manager BAXTER Healthcare, Switzerland.
    Key areas of work/main responsibilities: regulatory affairs (market registration of new products) and quality assurance (QA system) for Switzerland and Austria
  • 1993 Consultant Pharmacist Calcutta Rescue (NGO), Calcutta, India
    Key areas of work/main responsibilities: medicine supply to clinics, therapeutic and pharmaceutical advice to medical team, counseling of patients.
  • 1991–1992 Scientist Swiss Medicine Regulatory Authority (Swissmedic), Bern, Switzerland.
    Key areas of work/main responsibilities: registration of medicines, medicine group revisions.
  • 1987-1990 Clinical Pharmacist UNC Hospitals, Department of Cardiology, University of North Carolina UNC, Chapel Hill, N.C., USA and Valley Hospital, Department of Oncology, Ridgewood, N.J., USA. Key areas of work/main responsibilities: pharmacotherapy support, pharmacokinetic advice, medicine information, ward rounds, teaching, patient counseling.