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Since 2020
Founder and President of the Heart-Based Medicine Foundation, Basel
Since 2019
Professor of Paediatrics, Infectiology / Vaccinology, UKBB, Basel
Since 2018
Co-founder and member of the executive board of Youkidoc Kindergesundheit, Basel
Since 2012
Head physician for paediatric infectious diseases, UKBB, Basel
2015 - 2022
Deputy Head, Paediatric Infectiology/Vaccinology, UKBB
2012 - 2019
Privatdozent Paediatric Infectiology/Vaccinology, University of Basel
2003 - 2019
President, Brighton Collaboration Foundation
2006 - 2007
Assistant Physician Paediatrics, Infectious Diseases and Vaccines University of Basel
2005
Assistant Physician Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, St George's University of London
2000 - 2006
Research Associate, Paediatric Infectious Disease and Vaccines, UKBB, Basel (2000-2004; 2006),
St Georges Vaccine Institute, London, UK (2005),
Centres of Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA (2001-2002)
2000 - 2004
General Co-ordinator, The Brighton Collaboration
2012
Habilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel
2010
Specialisation - Infectious Diseases, Swiss Society for Infectiology
2008
Specialisation - Paediatrics, Paediatrics Switzerland & FMH (Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum)
1999
Dr med., University of Basel
Since 2023
SwissPedHealth - PReparing PERsonalizEd PEdiatRic PRimaRy caRE (PREPP)
2019 - 2020
SPEAC - Safety Platform for Emergency Vaccines, CEPI
2015 - 7
GAIA - Global Alignment of Immunisation Safety Assessment in Pregnancy project
2013 - 2019
ADVANCE - Accelerated development of vaccine benefit-risk collaboration in Europe, IMI
2011 - 2017
GRIP - Global Research in Paediatrics, DG Research FP7-HEALTH
2011 - 2012
GVSB - Global vaccine safety Blueprint, WHO
2009 - 2012
VAESCO - Vaccine Adverse Event Surveillance & Communication, ECDC
currently
Member - European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID)
currently
Member - Pediatric Infectious Diseases Group of Switzerland
currently
Member - Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases
currently
Member - Paediatrics Switzerland
2015 - 2016
Chair - Human Vaccines, International Alliance for Biological Standardisation (IABS)
2014 - 2017
Consultant - WHO: Maternal Immunisation Safety
2014 - 2016
Member - Strategic Advisory Group of the WHO Global Vaccine Safety Initiative (GVSI)
2012 – 2014
Member - WHO Global Vaccine Safety Initiative Planning Group (GVSI)
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