Xavier Hospital
Regional advisor on education for health and wellbeing, UNESCO Dakar
Xavier Hospital is Regional Advisor on Education for Health and Wellbeing at the UNESCO office in Dakar where he coordinates programs in response to early and unintended pregnancy, gender-based violence (including in school settings), HIV and other health issues in West and Central Africa. He is a major contributor to the development of tools to analyze and visually represent complex education programs: Analysis and Imaging of Education Response to School-related gender based violence (2017, 2021), Sexuality Education Review and Assessment Tool (2012, 2020) and, in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Inside & Out (2013).
Xavier has been working for more than 15 years in West and Central Africa for international non-governmental organizations and UNESCO as a country coordinator, consultant or regional monitoring and evaluation coordinator. His work mainly focused on capacity building of education authorities, strengthening multisector national and regional platforms and creating an enabling environment for the implementation of education programs on sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing.
He holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Montpellier and studied as well as lectured at the universities of Lille, Manchester and Lisbon, developing an expertise in conflict negotiation, decision-making and research methods in social and behavioral sciences.