Institute for Health and Human Development

Dr Jürgen Schmidt

Position: Research Fellow

Location: UH 211, Stratford Campus

Telephone: +44 (0776) 965 8534

Email: jurgen.schmidt@btinternet.com

Contact address:

School of Health and Bioscience
University of East London
Stratford Campus
Water Lane
Stratford E15 4LZ

Breif Biography:

Jürgen is an experienced public health manager who has participated in delivering public health programmes to poor communities during the past twenty years. He has worked with organisations such as the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, European Union, MSF, with national governments, with charities and as an individual consultant. During his six years as a civil servant with DFID, he was responsible for Public Health Sector policy in a number of DFID-assisted countries, specifically developing Strategy Papers for Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, and specific papers, “Regional Health Strategy” (DFID health strategy in the Balkans). This would go alongside project management responsibilities for a wide range of public health programmes implemented in-country. His experience covers both development and post-conflict/early rehabilitation work.

Trained in public health at the London School of Public Health, he has taught epidemiology, needs assessments, population surveys etc to field workers, he has participated in epidemiological investigations (see above), and has carried out needs assessments in each of the countries he has been operating in.

Jürgen has worked as a clinical doctor in hospitals in the UK (Hammersmith, Guy’s) and in Italy, providing paediatric intensive care.