Massimo Ciotti is a Medical doctor with specialisation in hygiene and public health as well as medical statistics. Until 2021 he worked as the ECDC Deputy Head of Unit Public Health Functions / Head of Section Emergency Preparedness and Response. During his career he has been managing multiple EU-wide and largescale Programmes and been working at the intersection of highly technical subject matter areas and in highly sensitive political arenas.
Dr Petra Dickmann MA, MBBS, MD, PhD is a senior health security specialist working for international organisations (WHO, IFRC, UNICEF) and governments on biosafety, biosecurity, health security and resilience. Her main areas of interests are risk communication governance and the social interface of health and security; she has been pioneering novel approaches of social laboratory workshop designs and conducting ‘incubator’ workshops at global level. Petra holds a PhD on health security (ETH Zurich / HU Berlin) and did her MD on CRBN threats (Kings College London/Frankfurt University). Her post-PhD degree (Habilitation) is in Public Health that she teaches as senior lecturer at Jena University Hospital.
Medical doctor, MPH, PhD in Public Health
Irina is a Senior Advisor, leading complex Programme in the area of Health systems strengthening; Design curriculums and coordinate training modules, including for virtual (e-) learning within Master program and short courses, Provide training, facilitation and individual counselling to students.
Furthermore, she is a Coordinator of a training program for the Dutch military doctors GOLAMA. The GOLAMA focuses on planning and implementation of humanitarian and medical aid as part of an international military operation. It covers outbreak detection and control, setting and management of a refugee camp, cooperation with local authorities and NGO's, intercultural communication.
Joachim Gromotka has a long track-record of Managing a team of national and international staff in Hamburg and abroad. He has been managing over 30 multi-annual TA contracts with annual turnover of EUR 12 Mio and provided TA to projects, particularly in health financing and procurement.
Mahdi Abdelwahab is a Global Health advisor and Training & Learning Specialist with expertise in health education, and qualitative research methods. Madhdi is committed to innovation in health education, including E-Learning, interactive and adaptive learning, and serious games. He is currently coordinating the Master of Public Health at KIT while working simultaneously on several research and training development projects.
Elisabeth Kleipool, MSc Global Health, is advisor in the health systems strengthening team at KIT, with over 9 years of experience in the field of public health with management, M&E, quantitative and qualitative research, and capacity development, with a specific focus on fragile- and conflict affected settings.
From 2015-2019 she managed the Third Party Monitoring & Evaluation of SEHAT/Sehatmandi (Afghanistan national health services), overseeing the nationwide health survey, health facility assessments, HMIS verifications and drug quality assessments for the MoPH (World Bank). She provided technical assistance to the MoH of Somalia on the maintenance of essential health services during Covid19 (2020). She trained hospital and DHMT staff in remote Sierra Leone on leadership and management for preparedness in health challenges (2021). She assessed the Technical Cooperation for HRH in the Americas for WHO PAHO (2021). Since 2021 she is coordinating the annual KIT course on Strengthening Disrupted Health Systems, and teaching and mentoring in the KIT MPH program. She is currently project lead of the HRH situational assessment in Afghanistan for WHO EMRO.
Nwanneka is a Global health professional with a background in Pharmacy and international health research. She has experience in public health implementation and evaluation, project design and management, health system research, health policy, and health systems strengthening.
She is interested in employing trans-disciplinary methods to generate evidence-based strategies that explore how social determinants of health impact health systems.
Healthcare Administration and Crisis Response Expert
KIT Royal Tropical Institute
Dr. Myrte Wassenaar
Myrte Wassenaar is a medical doctor and quantitative researcher from the Netherlands with a particular interest in global health and infectious diseases. She is currently working as an advisor in health systems strengthening at KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
