Xavier Bosch-Capblanch
- Phone: +41 61 284 83 19
- Fax: +41 61 284 81 03
- Email: X.Bosch@unibas.ch
- Profession: Senior Public Health Specialist
- Position: Project Leader
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Professional activities at Swiss TPH
Xavier Bosch-Capblanch (XBC) is a Medical Doctor, with an official speciality degree in Public Health and MSc in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Spain). He is Group Leader at the Systems Support Unit, at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Basel). He is also Honorary Lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
XBC started his career working as a clinician in Spain and he has been living and working in rural settings of Sub-Saharan Africa for 10 years. Over the years, he progressively moved from clinical work to health care management, public health and project management, including four years coordination of a rural health research centre in Mozambique.
XBC has undertaken formal lecturing and on-the-job training of government officials and national consultants being involved in the design and/or implementation of public health programmes in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria as well as in Liverpool and Basel.
His areas of expertise include health information and evidence around health systems interventions. In the former, he has been involved in numerous initiatives to assess the quality of routine administrative and surveys data, has led several surveys in different countries and has lectured on data and information for decision making. A significant part of this work is directly related to health systems evidence and vaccination coverage data. He has been involved in several Cochrane systematic reviews and has led initiatives to bridge the gap between research evidence and management and policy making.
Higher education & qualifications
2003 | Official qualification as Specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Ministry of Education, Madrid, Spain |
1990-1991 | Master in Tropical Medicine and Tropical Health (MSc), University of Barcelona, Department of Tropical Diseases, Barcelona, Spain |
1989 | Bachelor in Theology (BA), School of Theology of Catalonia, CITY, Spain |
1988 | Graduate in Medicine and Surgery (MD), University of Barcelona, School of Medicine, Barcelona, Spain |
Past professional activities
2007 - present | Group Leader of the Data-Evidence-Evaluation-Policy Group, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Swiss Centre for International Health, Basel, Switzerland |
2003-2007 | Public Health Consultant, several locations |
2002-2003 | Research Associate, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK |
1998-2002 | Health Research Centre Coordinator, Ministry of Health, Manhiça Health Research Centre, Mozambique |
1997-1998 | International Project Coordinator, University of Barcelona, Fundació Clínic, Spain |
1996-1997 | Project Manager, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Belgium), Chad |
1993-1995 | Nsoroma Project Coordinator and Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Ghana |
1990-1992 | Several clinical services, Barcelona, Spain |