Don de Savigny
- Phone: +41 61 284 81 60
- Fax: +41 61 284 81 05
- Email: d.desavigny@unibas.ch
- Profession: Prof. Epidemiologist & Public Health Specialist
- Position: Head of Unit, Groupleader
- Department/Unit:
Professional Activities
- Epidemiologist and public health specialist
- Head of the Health Systems Interventions Research Unit in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical
Institute. - Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Basel
- Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine. - Frequent advisor to the World Health Organization
- Advisory panels including Chair of the Health Metrics Network Technical Advisory Group, Chair of the WHO Roll Back Malaria Working Group on Scalable Malaria Vector Control, the Scientific Advisory Committee for the INDEPTH Network of Demographic and Health Observatories, the WHO African Malaria Expert Committee, the Gates Malaria Partnership, and the Council for Health Research for Development.
- Current research focuses on interventions to strengthen health systems in developing countries, and on the health system effects of Global Health Initiatives for scaling up access.
Working Experience
- Head of the Swiss Tropical Institute Field Laboratory in Tanzania (currently the Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre)
- 1988 - 1996: Principal Health Specialist for the International Development Research Centre, Canada.
- Worked for many years in Africa, most recently as lead facilitator for the Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Program (TEHIP) for the Ministry of Health in Tanzania.