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 analyses) - 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 - 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
- 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
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
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Trüb, Moira; Kucera, Anja; Schwärzler, Patricia; Kerry-Krause, Matthew J.; Stamm, David; Huber, Marion,
2024.
International Journal of Health Professions.
11(1), pp. 99-109.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijhp-2024-0009
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Zysset, Annina; Schwärzler, Patricia; Dratva, Julia,
2023.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
20(19), pp. 6804.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20196804
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Paignon, Adeline; Schwärzler, Patricia; Kerry-Krause, Matthew J.; Stamm, David; Bianchi, Monica; Xyrichis, Andreas; Gilbert, John; Cornwall, Jon; Thistlethwaite, Jill; Iwg-Ipecat; Huber, Marion,
2022.
Journal of Interprofessional Care.
36(5), pp. 765-769.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2021.2001445
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Nodjiadjim Laoubaou, Abdias; Wyss, Kaspar; Schwärzler, Patricia; Obrist, Brigit; Bergman, Manfred Max,
2006.
VertigO.
2006(3).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.4000/vertigo.1852
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Schwärzler, Patricia,
2013.
Basel:
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Basel.
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Sy, Ibrahim; Schwärzler, Patricia; Kouadio, Alain Serge; Kablan, Cléopatre; Granado, Stefanie; Obrist, Brigit; Tanner, Marcel; Cissé, Guéladio,
2010.
In:
Hurni, Hans; Wiesmann, Urs, eds.,
Global change and sustainable development : a synthesis of regional experiences from research partnerships.
Bern:
Geographica Bernensia.
pp. 33-46.
Perspectives of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South ; 5.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7892/boris.5902
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Schwärzler, Patricia,
2010.
In:
Dilger, Hansjörg; Hadolt, Bernhard, eds.,
Medizin im Kontext : Krankheit und Gesundheit in einer vernetzten Welt.
Frankfurt am Main:
Peter Lang.
pp. 389-409.
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Huber, Marion; Spiegel-Steinmann, Brigitta; Schwärzler, Patricia; Kerry-Krause, Matthew J.; Kaap-Fröhlich, Sylvia; Panfil, Eva-Maria; Witt, Claudia; Feusi, Emanuel; Gerber-Grote, Andreas; Melloh, Markus; Wieber, Frank; Schirlo, Christian; Dratva, Julia; et al.,
2020.
Kompetenzen zur interprofessionellen Zusammenarbeit und geeignete Unterrichtsformate.
Bern:
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)