Institution

Careum Center for Health Literacy, Careum Foundation and Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, Department Health

Based in

Switzerland , Zürich

Languages

Dutch English French German

Short Bio

Saskia De Gani studied human movement sciences and sports at the ETH Zurich and earned her PhD in integrative human physiology at the University of Zurich. Her main focus in research has been in the field of health sciences and public health, including health promotion and prevention. She has acquired a particular interest and extensive expertise on health literacy - from population surveys and monitoring, to surveying health literacy levels of health professionals and its implementation in health organisations and health systems. Since September 2020, she has been leading the Careum Center for Health Literacy, and since April 2022 also the research focus on health literacy at the Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences (Deparment Health). Managing this competence center includes not only research on different levels (population, professionals, organizations, systems), but even more the transfer of insights into practice and policy. In this function, she was responsible for the Swiss Health Literacy Study 2019-2021, and is active in regional, national as well as international networks and working groups. Particularly, she has represented the principal investigator of Switzerland in the WHO Action Network M-POHL and is member of the IHLA practice standard committee. She is also fellow of Sciana - The Health Leaders Network.

Other Expertise

Leadership One Health Public Health Health Literacy Health Promotion & Prevention