African Contributions to Global Health - Sponsors
Günther Fink heads the Household Economics and Health Systems unit at Swiss TPH and is Professor of Epidemiology and Household Economics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Basel.
He holds a PhD in economics from Bocconi University in Milan, and was working for 11 years at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health prior to joining Swiss TPH in 2017. Fink’s research focuses on developing and evaluating novel approaches to improving health systems globally, with a particular focus on child health and child development in low, and middle-income countries.
He has worked extensively on evaluations of national and regional health system reform initiatives, and currently oversees intervention trials in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Pakistan, South Africa, The Gambia, Tanzania and Zambia.