Karin Gross

Professional activities at Swiss TPH

  • Project coordination of the NCCR North-South Transversal Project Mandate (TPM) "Society, Equity and Health: At the intersection of Public Health, Social Sciences and Development"
  • Data analysis within the WAGE project

Higher education & qualifications

  • 2011 PhD in Epidemiology on pregnant women's access to malaria prophylaxis and antenatal care in rural Tanzania at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
  • 2005 MA in Social Anthropology (Minors: Economics and Media Studies) at University of Basel

Past professional activities

  • 2010-11 Program Officer Health, East and Southern Africa, Regional Cooperation at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC in Berne, Switzerland
  • 2007-11 PhD student associated with the ACCESS Programme on understanding and improving access to malaria treatment in rural Tanzania at the Ifakara Health Institute (Tanzania) and  the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Switzerland)
  • 2006 Junior lecturer at the Anthropological Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland

Teaching focus

  • Anthropology, Social Sciences