Helmut Spitzer

Helmut SPITZER, PhD, is a Professor of Social Work at Carinthia
University of Applied Sciences, Austria. He served as Overall
Coordinator of the projects PROSOWO I (2011-2014) and PROSOWO II
(2016-2018) on the promotion of professional social work in East Africa.
His teaching, research and publications (in German and English) focus
on international social work, social work methods, gerontological social
work, children in especially difficult circumstances, crosscultural
research, and social work in East Africa. The book Professional Social
Work in East Africa: Towards Social Development, Poverty Reduction
and Gender Equality (2014), which he published together with Janestic M.
Twikirize and Gidraph G. Wairire, has become a major reference on
social work in the East African region.