Marco Waser, PhD, MAS Quality Leadership

Function(s)
Quality Development Officer, Senior Scientific Project Leader

Qualification
Head Quality Development

Organisational entity

Profile

Marco Waser, PhD and MAS Quality Leadership, is the Head of Quality Development and a scientific project leader at Swiss TPH. He holds a PhD in Environmental Epidemiology from the University of Basel, focusing on Childhood Asthma and Allergies. After three years of postdoctoral research at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel, Waser moved into Quality Management, training at the University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich (HWZ) and SAQ-QUALICON, and completing a leadership programme with the Swiss Excellence Forum. At Swiss TPH he leads quality development for top management, covering strategy development and implementation as well as research project life cycle processes. Under the EFQM excellence model, he is responsible for key management processes across all three business areas - Research, Services and Education - and Operations. As a trained Diversity, Equity and Inclusion specialist, he accompanies professorship search commissions at the University of Basel.

Selected publications

All publications
My publications

Waser M, Pelikan K, Di Pasquale A. Wissensmanagement – (k)eine Frage neuer Tools. wissensmanagement. 2025;3:42-45

Waser M, Pelikan K, Haueter I, Utzinger J. Nutzen eines Qualitätslabels - Mit EFQM nachhaltige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit im globalen Gesundheitssektor sichern. MQ - Management und Qualität. 2025;55(9/10):22-24

Saric J, Bolz M, Waser M, Käser M. The consequences of compromising the EU's free movement of persons principle on Swiss research: how to survive constrained access to regional funding. Health Res Policy Syst. 2021;19:30. DOI: 10.1186/s12961-021-00684-3

Waser M, Beatrice-Matter S, Utzinger J. Durchgängiger Strategieprozess als Erfolgsfaktor einer exzellenten Organisation. Managment und Qualität. 2021(01-02):1-3

Waser M. Wie wird kontinuierliche Verbesserung im heutigen Umfeld zur Unternehmenskultur? (Lean KVP for Swiss TPH): Analyse von Erfolgsfaktoren am Beispiel des Schweizerischen Tropen- und Public Health Instituts. Zürch: HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft, 2018. MAS-QL

Bertolotti A, Haas P, Haueter I, Käser M, Kronig M, Mörgeli S, Schwarz S, Tamborrini M, Waser M. Umfrage zur Kundenzufriedenheit und zum Verbesserungs-Potential der Administration – Schlussbericht. Basel: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, 2017

Pelikan K, Waser M. Swiss TPH PhD studies: interplay of knowledge management, quality management and communication. In: Wimmer P, ed. Wissen im Prozess: Beiträge zu den Kremser Wissensmanagement-Tagen 2015, 67-75. Krems: Edition Donau-Universität, 2016

External membership

Switzerland