Barbara Matthys
- Phone: +41 61 284 83 12
- Fax: +41 61 284 81 03
- Email: barbara.matthys@unibas.ch
- Profession: Epidemiologist, Public Health Specialist
- Position: Project Associate
- Department/Unit:
Professional activities at Swiss TPH
Barbara Matthys, PhD, is an epidemiologist and public health specialist at the Swiss Centre for International Health of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. She has strong experience in programmatic performance and monitoring and evaluation of malaria control programs, health management information systems, data quality, and in operational research, and she performed consultancies for a broad range of clients. Activities include technical assistance to national control programs, data quality audits and on-site data verifications of grants of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and design and piloting of data collection and outreach training tools within a USAID malaria diagnostics strengthening program. Barbara Matthys conceived, implemented, coordinated, and technically and scientifically backstopped epidemiological and population-based surveys (malaria, human intestinal parasites, iodine and nutritional status) in school-, community- urban-, and agro-ecological settings, and outlined recommendations to national control programs. She has long-term working experience in West- and Central Africa and Central Asia and with local partners.
Higher education & qualifications
2003–2006 | PhD in Epidemiology, University of Basel, Switzerland. Thesis title: ‘The effect of irrigated urban agriculture on malaria, schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in different settings of Côte d’Ivoire’ |
1995–2002 | MSc in Geography, University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland |
1994-1995 | ‘Diplôme annuel de Langue et Civilisation Françaises de la Sorbonne’, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France |
Past professional activities
2007- present | Epidemiologist and Public Health Specialist, Swiss Centre for International Health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland |
2002-2006 | Scientific Assistant, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland; and the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques (CSRS), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire |
2000-2001 | Scientific Assistant, National Centre for Forestry Seeds, National Ministry of Environment and Water, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. |