Health Focus works with competent, creative, multi-disciplinary teams. We strongly believe in teamwork as a key to success and excellence.
Our permanent employees have longstanding professional experience, strong interpersonal and managerial skills, and an excellent ability for communication and dialogue in various cultural settings. Young professionals with innovative skills assist them. Together, the teams secure a consistently high level of performance to meet the needs and expectations of our partners and clients.
Health Focus offers an inspiring working environment with space for continuous technical exchange and renewal. Moreover, we invest in the continuous professional development of our employees.
The Health Focus headquarters resides in Potsdam, Germany, while another fully equipped branch office is located in Conakry, Guinea. Further permanent staff is located in sub-Saharan Africa (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Bujumbura, Burundi), as well as Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) and Central America (San Salvador, El Salvador).
The firm’s permanent personnel covers key areas such as health system strengthening, HIV&AIDS prevention, sexual and reproductive health, social protection / health insurance, qualitative and quantitative research (studies/surveys), project planning and management, monitoring and evaluation, financial management, strategic development, human resources development and training, quality management, health systems development, etc. Health Focus’ permanent staff members have extensive experience in backstopping and managing large project portfolios for a broad range of donors and clients. Moreover, they have several years of field experience in developing countries, during which they have served as technical advisors, team leaders or project managers on various topics in the health sector.
In addition to its permanent staff, Health Focus works closely with a wide range of associated staff that has accumulated long standing experience in the areas of public health, operational research, teaching and training, communication, health economics, ethnology, administration, management, monitoring and evaluation. They are experienced experts with a broad knowledge and understanding of current approaches and strategies regarding quantitative studies, technical and managerial capabilities, training capacities – especially in the health sector. To this end Health Focus also recruits, trains and manages national field staff during projects almost without exception.