New offices for HHSA team

Also we started moving into our new offices. We will be housed in the building of the Centre for African Studies, Steinengraben 5. Our new phone number is 0041 (0)61 267 14 98.

New researcher in the HHSA project

We are very happy to welcome a third researcher in our History of Health Systems in Africa team. Dr. Hines Mabiko joines our team next month. We are very happy to have such a competent researcher as part of our team.

bilateral research seminars

Swiss National Science Foundation calls for applications for bilateral research seminars Swiss-South Africa. Call open till 25.11.2008. Details:
http://www.snf.ch/D/NewsPool/Seiten/news_080917_Ausschreibung_CH_Suedafrika.aspx

network for history of hospitals in africa, india, southern america, the middle east

this is a call for communications. if you are interested in such a networking possibility, please contact me

conf society for the social history of medicine, glasgow

Greetings from a very interesting conference in Glasgow. I presented a paper that focused on how Swiss doctors in Ifakara discussed health needs and a convienent structure of the hospital to answer such needs: preventive and curative services?. Contact me if you wish to know more about this. marcel{punkt]dreier{at?unibas(.)ch