Dr. Pascal Schmid
Administrative staff
Research associate

Pascal Schmid

Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät

Zentrum für Afrikastudien

Administrative staff

Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel
Rheinsprung 21
4051 Basel
Schweiz

Tel. +41 61 207 34 82
pascal.schmid@unibas.ch

Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät

Zentrum für Afrikastudien

Research associate

Rheinsprung 21
4051 Basel
Schweiz

Tel. +41 61 207 34 82
pascal.schmid@unibas.ch

Pascal Schmid coordinates the   advanced study programme at the Centre as well as projects in the fields of research and communication. In addition he supports the coordination office in the acquisition of third party funding and in communication measures and publications.

From 2008 to 2011, Pascal Schmid was a research assistant in the project History of Health Systems in Africa at the History Department of the University of Basel. He has written his PhD thesis on the history of a former mission hospital and the development of health care services in rural Ghana. Previously, Pascal Schmid has worked as a journalist and online editor. He studied history, media science and political science at the Universities of Basel and Freiburg i.Br. (Germany).

Publications

ALL PUBLICATIONS
Schmid, P. (2018) ‘Davos of Ghana? Local, national and international perspectives on tuberculosis treatment and control (ca. 1920-1965)’, in Lengwiler, M., Penn, N., and Harries, P. (eds) Science, Africa and Europe: Processing Information and Creating Knowledge. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 208-236.   edoc
Schmid, P. (2018) Medicine, Faith and Politics in Agogo. a history of health care delivery in rural Ghana, ca. 1925 to 1980. Wien: LIT Verlag (Swiss African Studies / Schweizerische Afrikastudien / Etudes africaines suisses).   edoc
Arlt, V. and Schmid, P. (2016) ‘Obituary: Prof. Emer. Patrick Harries (1950–2016)’, Newsletter der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien. Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien. Available at: http://www.sagw.ch/africa/Newsletter.html.   edoc | Open Access
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