Simon Gottwalt Project Leader Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH)

Simon Gottwalt is project lead for the implementation of the Swiss antibiotic resistance strategy in the human sector at the Federal Office of Public Health’s Infectious Disease Division. Previously, he was a program officer at the NGO Biovision in Zurich, responsible for managing development projects in Kenya and Ethiopia on tropical diseases and sustainable agriculture. He worked for the WHO in the area of access to medicines and financing of research and development. Simon Gottwalt is a molecular biologist by training with a special focus on infectious diseases and drug development and a fellow of the Mercator Fellowship on international affairs.