Yahya Wardak was born in 1967 in Afghanistan. He is son of Zir Gul Wardak who had worked at top management in banking system of Afghan Ministry of Finance, whose last job was the chairmanship of Pashtany Bank.
Mr. Wardak is married and has one daughter and two sons. He lives in Germany since 1992.
He got primary education at Spin Kali School, secondary education in Harbi Showanzai (Military High School 1981-1985), and higher education in the field of General Medicine in Czechoslovakia (1985-1992).
After learning language in Germany, he studied Health Systems, Public Health, and Tropical Medicine in developing countries at Heidelberg University. Later on, he studied Health Management at Mibeg Institute in Cologne for one year.
Yahya Wardak (MD, DCH & TM, Berlin), from 2000 to 2002, was an official personal of The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg. After that, he joined with InWEnt (GIZ) in Bonn. He worked in creating and applying medical e-learning courses for the doctors of developing countries (2003-2006).
He was an editor with Deutsche Welle Radio and an advisor for some other German organizations (e.g. DED, InWEnt) regarding programs for Afghanistan, from 2007 up to 2009.
He traveled to Nangarhar in 2009 to observe the situations of Afghan universities, and he, until (May 2021), was an advisor at the Ministry of Higher Education in Kabul. He has now an office and continuing the publishing of textbooks program.
In this period, besides other works, he has published 500 textbooks and Literary books and distributed them free of charge to all universities of Afghanistan.
He has been teaching Pashto in Bonn since 2005 and has prepared a series of Pashto learning books for A1 and A2 grades, which include reading, exercising books, grammar books, vocabulary books, and teaching guides.
Bonn, June, 2023
Publications
Medicina Afghanica. Bulletin of Health Care in Afghanistan. German & English, 10 issues from 1997 to 2007.
Gesundheitswesen in Afghanistan: Medizin unter Armut und Vergleich mit BRD. German, (Health System in Afghanistan: Medicine in Poverty and Comparison with the Federal Republic of Germany), Mibeg-Institut Köln, 2000.
Gesundheitsinformation für Ihre Reise (Health Information for Travelers).
Co-author. Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Hamburg, 2002.
Online Course: HIV & AIDS for Medical Staff. An interactive E-Learning-Training. Co-Developer. Published by InWEnt Bonn, 2004.
Quotations of Bacha Khan (Pashto, Dari, English & German), 2008, 2009, 2016, 2019, 2020.
Nonviolence, Politics and Tolerance in Islam. Editors: Klußmann, J., Murtaza, M.S., Rohne, H.-C., Wardak, Y. (eds.), Springer Verlag 2016. (German)
Publishing Textbooks for Afghan Universities (Pashto, Dari, English), 2017, 2022.
German for Afghans (Pashto, Dari), 2018, 2019, 2020 2022.
Higher Education in Afghanistan: Opinions, Suggestions & Advice, (Pashto/German/English), 2017, 2018, 2022.
Textbooks for Medical Students, Ministry of Higher Education, Kabul, 2021.
Short Guide for Book Publishing, Ministry of Higher Education (Pashto/English), Kabul, 2021, 2022.
Publishing a Series of Pashto Learning for A1 & A2 levels.
More information at:
→ www.wardak.de
Contact: info@wardak.de
