Short CV Matthias Kerker:

2007

Consultant, healthFORUM, Winterthur, Switzerland

Project planning and evaluation in various countries (Eastern Europe, Balcans); individual health coaching

2003- 2006

Construction work (sabbatical)

Renovation (ecological standard) of my house at coast of Lake Geneva

2000- 2002

Consultant, Health Management Consulting HMC

Consultancies for SDC, COHRED, WHO

1999- 2000

Senior Health Advisor, Council of Health Research for Development COHRED, Geneva

Latin American Health Research Network, int. Conference, Bangkok

1992- 1999

Senior Health Officer, Scientific and conceptual advisor at HQ of Swiss Development Cooperation SDC / Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Project support, funding of national/international health agencies and networks, development of SDC's health policy

1992

PHD, Theses at Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPMZ, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Issue: Measurement of HIV-Seroprevalence in the Swiss Population (Unlinked Anonymous Screening UAS)

1989- 1992

Senior researcher, Institute of Social an Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich

AIDS-Department, Surveillance of Swiss HIV-Epidemiology

1989

MPH Master of Public Health, HSPH, Harvard University, Boston USA

Concentration: International Health / Health Policy and Management

1988

Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Public Health, Swiss Tropical Institute STI, Basel

Malaria Control

1986- 1987

Research fellow at Geneva University Hospital, TB-Unit

Assessment of efficacy of DOTS-treatment in jail environments (ICRC-experience Lima, Peru), epidemiology of MOTT-disease in Switzerland

1984- 1988

Medical delegate, International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC

Various short/long missions in Latin America, Africa and Middle East (prisoners health, emergencies, displaced populations, sanitation, TB-control)

1984

Chief of Delegation, Swiss Disaster Relief Corps

National Immunization campaign, Guinea Equatorial

1979- 1983

Physician in General practice, regional hospitals and Swiss Air Rescue REGA

Family Medicine, Anesthetics, Surgery, Emergency Medicine

1978

MD Diploma in Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland