Sibylle Gerstl

Sibylle Gerstl studied Biology in Rome and Tübingen with a focus on tropical diseases, in addition to holding an MBA. After a short detour in the pharmaceutical industry, she completed a PhD in Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical Institute where she based her dissertation on her work involving the socio-economic aspects of urban agriculture in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
In 2003, she joined Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) where she worked on applied epidemiology and program evaluation in complex emergencies and outbreaks in difficult settings for Epicentre in Paris. Her research in this position took her to more than 10 countries in Africa alone. For the past two years, she has worked for the MSF London office where she was responsible for research on a large scale malaria project in Southwest Sierra Leone.
Sibylle recently joined Malteser International, a worldwide relief organization.