BRCCH | Digital Support Systems to Improve Child Health and Development in Low-Income Settings 

Speaker: Prof Günther Fink is an associate professor and Head of the Household Economics and Health Systems Research unit at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Switzerland. His work focuses on developing and evaluating new and innovative approaches for improving child health and development and on measuring the long-term benefits of early life improvements. Within the context of the BRCCH, he leads a project to develop digital tools to help parents best support the development of their children in the first 1000 days of life. At the Swiss TPH, he is currently the PI of the Zambia Early Childhood Development project, as well as the Co-PI of the São Paulo Western Region Cohort project, two longitudinal studies exploring the long-term effects of early life adversity. He is also currently working on cluster-randomized trials aiming to improve nutritional and early learning outcomes among children under age 5 in Brazil, Pakistan, Peru, South Africa and Zambia.
This seminar is within the theme "Digital Support Tools for Paediatric Health", as part of the BRCCH 2023 seminar series.