Manfred Stoermer, M.A. Public Administration, is a seasoned health-financing expert at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). With over 30 years of professional experience, he has worked extensively across Africa, East and South Asia, Europe, and Central Asia, focusing on health service financing, health insurance development, governance, decentralization, community development, project appraisals, and the financial management, planning, monitoring, and evaluation of projects. From 2011 to 2023, Mr. Stoermer led the "Health Promotion and System Strengthening" (HPSS) Project in Tanzania as Project Director, which worked on health insurance development, community health promotion, medicine and supply chain management, and health technology management. A significant achievement was his support in developing the health insurance system of the "Improved Community Health Fund" (iCHF), which has been implemented by the Government of Tanzania nationwide, benefiting specifically rural populations and the informal sector. Manfred Stoermer conducted training courses on health financing and project cycle management in several countries. His expertise and research interest in health financing, health system strengthening and financial management is also reflected in his teaching roles at the Swiss TPH and as an associate lecturer of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zürich) at the NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation since 2002.