Dr. phil. Patricia Schwärzler
Dr. phil. Patricia Schwärzler
ZHAW
School of Health Sciences
Institute of Public Health
Katharina-Sulzer-Platz 9
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Focus
qualitative social science research (epistemology, methodology and analysis); Anthropology of Health, Cultural Epidemiology; Global Health, Public Health, urban health, rural health, development cooperation; Transculturality, Transssectionality, Diversity, Gender; Sexual and reproductive health and rights, youth sexuality, HIV/AIDS, Mother-, newborn and child health (MCH); Interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity (GRIPP Getting research into Policy and Practice), interprofessionality; geografiic focus: Africa (specially central and western Africa)
Teaching
Experience
- Lecturer
ZHAW, School of Health Professions
08 / 2024 - today - Senior research associate and lecturer
ZHAW, School of Health Professions
06 / 2018 - 07 / 2024 - International expert and consultant in Cameroon and Switzerland
Independent
04 / 2016 - 05 / 2018 - Country representative in Cameroon
Médecins du Monde Suisse, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
10 / 2013 - 03 / 2016 - Research associate and programme coordinator
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
10 / 2005 - 08 / 2013
Education and Continuing education
Education
- PhD / Epidemiology
Swiss TPH (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute), associated institute of the University of Basel, Switzerland
09 / 2003 - 07 / 2013 - M.A. / Social Anthropology (minors: Human Geography, German literature)
University of Basel, Switzerland
10 / 1987 - 06 / 1997
Continuing Education
- Qualified administrator Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)
IDI, LLC, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
10 / 2025 - CAS Higher and Professional Education
School of Managment and Law SML, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning ZID, ZHAW Winterthur, Switzerland
07 / 2019 - Course Results based Project Cycle Management
Fédération neuchâteloise de coopération au développement (Latitude 21), Neuchâtel, Switzerland
11 / 2015 - Course certificate Public Health
Swiss School of Public Health SSPH+
10 / 2013 - Certificate of attendance National Center for Competence in Research North-South (NCCR N-S)
University of Bern, Switzerland
06 / 2013 - Certificate of attendance Peer mentoring 'Between medicine and culture'
Programme fostering young female scientists at the Universities of Zürich, Basel and St. Gallen, Switzerland
12 / 2007 - Certificate Graduate School Gender Studies
Center for Gender Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland
04 / 2005
Network
Membership of networks
- MAS Medical Anthropology Switzerland
- SEG Swiss Anthropological Association
- CASB Centre for African Studies Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland
- MMS Medicus Mundi Switzerland - Health for all
- Alumni Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Alumni NCCR North-South, University of Bern, Switzerland
- NRP83 Gender medicine and health
ORCID digital identifier
Social media
Projects
- Gender concepts and Nutrition In childhood / Team member / ongoing
- DSembedded: Integrating discipline-specific Know How into Data Stewardship / Team member / completed
- Competences for inter-professional cooperation and appropriate teaching formats / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Kerry, M., Schwärzler, P., & Huber, M. (2025). Preliminary empirical validation of the framework for evaluation of interprofessional education and collaboration : a mixed-methods multi-level model. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 40(100753). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2025.100753
- Trüb, M., Kucera, A., Schwärzler, P., Kerry-Krause, M. J., Stamm, D., & Huber, M. (2024). Fostering factors for perspective taking in students on the Zurich clinical interprofessional training ward ZIPAS® : first results of the evaluation. International Journal of Health Professions, 11(1), 99–109. https://doi.org/10.2478/ijhp-2024-0009
- Zysset, A., Schwärzler, P., & Dratva, J. (2023). Seeking health in a digital world : exploring immigrant parents’ quest for child health information – a scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(19), 6804. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20196804
- Paignon, A., Schwärzler, P., Kerry-Krause, M. J., Stamm, D., Bianchi, M., Xyrichis, A., Gilbert, J., Cornwall, J., Thistlethwaite, J., Iwg-Ipecat, & Huber, M. (2022). Interprofessional educators’ competencies, assessment, and training - IPEcat : protocol of a global consensus study. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 36(5), 765–769. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2021.2001445
- Nodjiadjim Laoubaou, A., Wyss, K., Schwärzler, P., Obrist, B., & Bergman, M. M. (2006). Communication socioculturelle comme outil de prévention des maladies sexuellement transmissibles et le VIH chez les adolescents au Tchad. VertigO, 2006(3). https://doi.org/10.4000/vertigo.1852
Books, peer-reviewed
Schwärzler, P. (2013). “De nos jours, chacun fait ce qu’il veut”? : dynamiques des relations sociales et pratiques sexuelles dans le contexte du VIH/sida à Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso [Doctoral dissertation]. Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Basel.
Book chapters, peer-reviewed
- Schwärzler, P. (2010). Sex and the City : Erzählungen alter Männer und Frauen über jugendliche Sexualiät und AIDS in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In H. Dilger & B. Hadolt (eds.), Medizin im Kontext : Krankheit und Gesundheit in einer vernetzten Welt (pp. 389–409). Peter Lang.
- Sy, I., Schwärzler, P., Kouadio, A. S., Kablan, C., Granado, S., Obrist, B., Tanner, M., & Cissé, G. (2010). An interdisciplinary vulnerability and resilience approach to health risks in under-privileged urban contexts in West Africa. In H. Hurni & U. Wiesmann (Eds.), Global change and sustainable development : a synthesis of regional experiences from research partnerships (pp. 33–46). Geographica Bernensia. https://doi.org/10.7892/boris.5902
Other publications
Huber, M., Spiegel-Steinmann, B., Schwärzler, P., Kerry-Krause, M. J., Kaap-Fröhlich, S., Panfil, E.-M., Witt, C., Feusi, E., Gerber-Grote, A., Melloh, M., Wieber, F., Schirlo, C., & Dratva, J. (2020). Kompetenzen zur interprofessionellen Zusammenarbeit und geeignete Unterrichtsformate. Bundesamt für Gesundheit.
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
- Schwärzler Patricia. 2013. «De nos jours, chacun fait ce qu'il veut»? Dynamiques des relations sociales et pratiques sexuelles dans le contexte du VIH/sida à Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. PhD Thesis. Basel: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel. (in French)
- Schwärzler Patricia. 2010. Sex and the City: Erzählungen alter Männer und Frauen über jugendliche Sexualität und AIDS in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In H. DILGER & B. HADOLT, Hg. Medizin im Kontext. Krankheit und Gesundheit in einer vernetzten Welt. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, S. 389–409. ISBN 9783631578391. (in German)
- Sy I., Schwärzler P., Kouadio A. S., Kablan C., Granado S., Obrist B., Tanner M. & Cissé G., 2010. An interdisciplinary vulnerability and resilience approach to health risks in under-privileged urban contexts in West Africa. In: H. Hurni & U. Wiesmann, Hg., with an international Group of co-editors. Global Change and sustainable development: A Synthesis of regional experiences from research partnerships. Perspectives of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, University of Bern, Vol. 5. Bern: Geographica Bernensia, S. 33-46.
- Nodjiadjim L. A., Wyss K., Schwärzler P., Obrist B. & Bergman M. M., 2006. Communication socioculturelle comme outil de prévention des maladies sexuellement transmissibles et le VIH chez les adolescents au Tchad. VertigO - la revue électronique en sciences de l’environnement, Hors-série 3.
- Schwärzler, Patricia. 1996. Representations of the body and concepts of well-being and illness among the Moose [Burkina Faso]. Unpublished M.A Thesis. Basel: Insitute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel. (in German)