EPOS Stories
Family Planning in the Amhara Region
Donor: GTZ Project
Name: Family Planning in the Amhara Region Progress Monitoring Mission, September and October 1997 in North and South Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
EPOS' experts: Dr. Christian Schönhals, Team Leader and Dr. Dieudonnée Schweigart responsible for Focus Group Discussions with Community Based Distributors (CBD`s) and the target groups
European Commission Health & Family Welfare Sector Programme in India
India – European Commission Health & Family Welfare Sector Programme in India – Sector Investment Programme – Streamlining and Improving Implementation National Workshop – Goa – January 2002
Afghan Hospital Delegation Undertakes a German Hospital Study Tour in July 2011
Key department heads, nursing supervisors and core planning members of the Balkh Hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, as well as representatives of the Ministry of Health in Kabul are presently taking part in a nine day German hospital study tour to view functions and work flows of comparatively sized German hospitals. The study tour includes visits to four German Hospitals in Füssen, Kaufbeuren, Bamberg and Nuremberg as well as workshops reviewing technical, functional and administrative concerns of real-time hospital management.
EPOS 30th Anniversary
I got to know EPOS in 1996 through short-term assignments in Uzbekistan and later India which turned out to be a lucky break for me. These assignments led to Dr. Gaertner offering me long-term employment with EPOS in 2000. Although I had to give up my academic career as a Social Anthropologist at the University of Heidelberg in the process of completing my habilitation, I have never regretted the change. The following years were challenging; working as team leader for 6 years in India; more than 2 years in Bangladesh (both GIZ projects); and in 2011, in Tajikistan (EU project), where I continued as short-term expert after retirement in 2012.
The Red Mosque
In the summer of 2007, Thomas Wicha, the IT specialist of epos Beratungsgesellschaft and I traveled to Pakistan on a request of the WHO to EPOS to evaluate two tertiary care centers in the country regarding their readiness for hospital accreditation.
While we had heard that American and British experts had turned down the job offer, we felt that the political situation in Pakistan was stable enough at that time to carry out such a mission.