Sara Gari

Professional Activities

  • HIV&AIDS, Malnutrition
  • Interdisciplinary mental health and psychosocial studies
  • Cross-cutting health-related interests in gender, stigma, and help seeking behavior

Higher Education & Qualifications

  • 2010 Inter-faculty PhD Program Epidemiology, Institute of Social- and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel, and Swiss Tropical Institute (in progress)
  • 2006 P.G. Dip Public Health
  • 2004 MSc Clinical & Health Psychology
  • 2001 BSc Psychology

Work Experience

  • International Public Health Consultant & Program Manager in developing countries
    • 2010 Switzerland - IVR Gender and Immunization. WHO
    • 2009 Germany - Evaluation of European Commission’s Support to Health policy Development and the Fight against Poverty Related Diseases. Particip GmBH.
    • 2008 Afghanistan - Institutional and operational support to the Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in the prevention and fight against acute and chronic malnutrition. ACF-Unicef
    • 2007 Bangladesh/ Sri Lanka. HIV prevention programs among the most-at-risk populations (MARPs) - Prevention of child malnutrition through people's awareness and community intervention. Red Cross UK-London
  • 2005-2007 Health Psychologist and Counselor at the CTA Hospital in Valencia. Malnutrition and Eating disorders Specialty
  • 2004-2005 Research Fellows at the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health in the University of Valencia.