Gisela Schneider

Dr. med. Gisela Schneider (MPH, DTM&H) worked as a missionary doctor in Africa for more than 20 years. Besides her clinical work she developed Primary Health Care programmes, was involved in training and HIV care in the Gambia. In 2005 she was appointed as Director of training at the Infectious Disease Institute at Makerere University in Kampala/Uganda where she set up training programmes for ART, HIV care and other infectious diseases for health workers from across Africa. Since July 2007 she leads the German Institute for Medical Mission (Difäm e.V.). During the Ebola outbreak in 2014/2015 Dr Schneider worked with the Christian Health Associations in Liberia and later Sierra Leone, to strengthen local health services in their response to the epidemic and developed the programme: Keep Safe – Keep Serving with local providers who were able to keep health services going throughout the epidemic. Difäm works with faith based services across Africa in the area of PHC; health system strengthening and access to medicines as well as training and capacity building.