SCHWARZ Joëlle

Biography

As a researcher at Unisanté since 2017, I lead teaching and research projects on gender in health. I co-head the Health and Gender Unit with Prof Carole Clair, and we lead a team that works to promote and implement multidisciplinary approaches.

I am trained in social sciences and epidemiology. My two research domains are social epidemiology and medical sociology. In social epidemiology, I conduct quantitative research projects on gender-related health disparities. In medical sociology, I use qualitative methods to understand how gender shapes clinical practice and medical training. I teach these thrilling subjects at the Lausanne School of Medicine and elsewhere. 

I conducted my doctoral research at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH/University of Basel) on the topic of family planning policies and practices in Burundi. Prior to that, I worked at Swiss TPH in Switzerland and abroad on international cooperation projects in the field of health.

Teaching

School of Medicine, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne:

- B1.5 Lecture: Medicine and gender

- B2.9 Workshop: Research Design, community research 

- B3.6 Community Immersion, Bachelor thesis (board member)

- B3.8 Skills course: Prevention of sexism and sexual harassment (forum theatre)

- M1.6 Workshop: Gender bias in clinical practice using reflexivity 

- M1.9 Lecture: Equity in health, discrimination in healthcare: sexism and racism 

- Supervision of master thesis and doctoral theses (MD and PhD)

- Doctoral School in Life Science FBM: Lecture on health and gender, in Applied humanities in health and medicine: methodological tools

- CAS Sex- and Gender-specific medicine: Study Design & Research module (Unibe, UZH)

- CAS Sex- and Gender-specific medicine: Primary Care module (Unibe, UZH)

- CAS in Clinical Research: lecture on gender medicine (Unisanté, UNIL)