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Dr. Alexander Bischoff, PhD, MPH, RNInstitute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Switzerland Alexander Bischoff was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and trained as a nurse in Switzerland. He worked for seven years in primary health care and nursing in Angola, and has received his Masters in Community Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1994. Between 1995 and 2003 he was involved in nursing and research in the areas of migrant and refugee health, interpreting and cross-cultural care at the Geneva University Hospital. He received his PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Basel (Swiss Tropical Institute) in 2001. Short term missions led him to Rwanda, Zanzibar, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Belarus. Lecturer and senior scientist at the Institute of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel/Switzerland, his research focuses on intercultural communication, community interpreting, health disparities and chronic disease management among migrant populations. He is the principal investigator of a research project on intercultural mediation, funded by the National Research Programme 51 "Social Integration and Social Exclusion". Contact information:
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