Professor João Schwalbach
Comité Nacional de Bioética para a Saúde de Moçambique
João Fernando Lima Schwalbach, of Mozambican nationality, was born on April 30, 1942 in Tete, Mozambique. He has a degree in Medicine. He was Director and Chief Physician of the District of Chibuto and of Maputo Province and directed the Directorate of Health of the City of Maputo, the National Institute of Health, the Maputo Regional Sanitary Development Center of Mozambique WHO. He was Director of the Faculty of Medicine of Eduardo Mondlane University for ten years and an elected member of the Academic Council and the University Council of the Eduardo Mondlane University.
He has extensive teaching experience, teaching several subjects at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo Regional Health Development Center of the World Health Organization, Maputo State and Law School, Maputo National Health Institute, Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences of University of Porto (Portugal), Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), Instituto Superior Politécnico e Universitário de Maputo, Instituto Superior de Ciências e Tecnologia de Moçambique de Maputo. He was the first President of the National Commission to Combat AIDS and Coordinator of the National Coordination Center of the National Program to Combat AIDS in Mozambique.
He has more than 70 articles published in Mozambican and international magazines. He is currently President of the Mozambican Public Health Association (AMOSAPU), of the National Commission on Bioethics for Health in Mozambique and Coordinator of the LusoAfro-Bioethics Project – Strengthening Bioethics Committees in Lusophone African Region, a project that is part of the EDCTP2 programme supported by the European Union.
He has extensive teaching experience, teaching several subjects at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo Regional Health Development Center of the World Health Organization, Maputo State and Law School, Maputo National Health Institute, Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences of University of Porto (Portugal), Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), Instituto Superior Politécnico e Universitário de Maputo, Instituto Superior de Ciências e Tecnologia de Moçambique de Maputo. He was the first President of the National Commission to Combat AIDS and Coordinator of the National Coordination Center of the National Program to Combat AIDS in Mozambique.
He has more than 70 articles published in Mozambican and international magazines. He is currently President of the Mozambican Public Health Association (AMOSAPU), of the National Commission on Bioethics for Health in Mozambique and Coordinator of the LusoAfro-Bioethics Project – Strengthening Bioethics Committees in Lusophone African Region, a project that is part of the EDCTP2 programme supported by the European Union.