Barbara Kloss-Quiroga
Barbara Kloss-Quiroga is a physician by training, who specialises in anaesthesiology and intensive care. She graduated from the Free University in Berlin, Germany. She has a Masters Degree in Community Health and Health Management for Developing countries from the University of Heidelberg (1994), and an MA in Gender and Diversity Competence from the Free University in Berlin (2010).
Barbara began her professional career in 1974 as anaesthetic officer at the University Hospital in Berlin and worked from 1979 to 1988 in Nicaragua with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health as an anaesthetic consultant, developing a curriculum for anaesthetic technicians. After returning to Germany she joined the German Foundation for International Development (a predecessor of GIZ) as head of the Primary Health Care Division. In that function she was in charge of capacity building programmes in East Africa and Latin America. Later she took over the responsibility as the HIV/AIDS cross sector representative in InWEnt (now merged to GIZ), and was in charge of capacity-building programmes in the field of social security.
Overall, she has more than 30 years experience in planning, developing, monitoring, and managing development cooperation programmes in Latin America, Africa and southeast Asia, mainly in capacity building.
Since June 2011, Barbara heads the Sector Initiative Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Population Dynamics at GIZ Head office in Eschborn. She is also the editor of various training manuals for district health management and HIV/AIDS awareness-raising, and reviews publications on the capacity building experiences in African and Latin American countries.
Barbara began her professional career in 1974 as anaesthetic officer at the University Hospital in Berlin and worked from 1979 to 1988 in Nicaragua with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health as an anaesthetic consultant, developing a curriculum for anaesthetic technicians. After returning to Germany she joined the German Foundation for International Development (a predecessor of GIZ) as head of the Primary Health Care Division. In that function she was in charge of capacity building programmes in East Africa and Latin America. Later she took over the responsibility as the HIV/AIDS cross sector representative in InWEnt (now merged to GIZ), and was in charge of capacity-building programmes in the field of social security.
Overall, she has more than 30 years experience in planning, developing, monitoring, and managing development cooperation programmes in Latin America, Africa and southeast Asia, mainly in capacity building.
Since June 2011, Barbara heads the Sector Initiative Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Population Dynamics at GIZ Head office in Eschborn. She is also the editor of various training manuals for district health management and HIV/AIDS awareness-raising, and reviews publications on the capacity building experiences in African and Latin American countries.
