PD Dr. Sonja Merten, MD, PhD, MPH

Professional activities at Swiss TPH

• Equity in access to health services
• Sexual and reproductive health and rights
• Maternal health, gender and rights
• Community perspectives on social protection in reproductive health
• Household food security

Higher education and qualifications

• 2003-2006: PhD student, interfaculty PhD Program Epidemiology, Institute of Social- and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel, and Swiss Tropical Institute (Perception and interpretation of traditional and biomedical health concepts in a rural African community: Nutrition among Ila-speaking peoples in Zambia. Funding: SNSF, KFPE, Zingg-Schwichtenberg Fond)
• 2005: Master of Public Health (Do Baby-friendly hospitals influence breastfeeding duration on a national level?)
• 2002-2005: Graduate School Gender Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland
• 1997: Diploma in Visual Arts, HdKZ, Switzerland
• 1993: Staatsexamen, MD

Previous work experience:

• 2009- today: Swiss TPH
• 2007-2008: Swiss School of Public Health
• 2002: WHO Headquarters, Nutrition for Health and Development
• 1999-2006: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland
• 1994-1998: Institute of Medical Education, University of Bern, Switzerland