Prof. Dr. Günther Fink

Prof. Günther Fink is Professor of Epidemiology and Household Economics at the University of Basel as well as head of the Household Economics and Health Systems Research Unit at the Swiss TPH. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, as well as a Master’s in applied economics from the University of Michigan. Dr. Fink’s work focuses on developing and evaluating new and innovative approaches to improving health systems globally, with a particular focus on child health and child development in developing countries. He has worked on evaluations of national and community-based health insurance initiatives in Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, community-based health workers programs in Nigeria, and large-scale private and public sector initiatives to reduce the burden of malaria in Angola, Namibia, Uganda and Zambia. He is the PI of the Zambia Early Childhood Development Project and co-leads cohort studies in Brazil, Cote d'Ivoire, Laos, Peru, and Tanzania. He is also a member of the Basel Center of Health Economics, and co-investigator on range of intervention trials in Laos, Cote d'Ivoire and Zambia.