Dr. phil. Patricia Schwärzler

Work at ZHAW

Position

Senior research associate and lecturer (research, teaching, evaluations)

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

Lecturer for health personnel at BSc and MSc levels (scientific writing, qualitative methods, diversity, transculturality, transsectionality, gender, global/public health)

Experience

• Senior research associate and lecturer
  ZHAW, School of Health Professions
  06 / 2018 - today
• 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

• Alumni Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland
• Alumni NCCR North-South, University of Bern, Switzerland
• MMS Medicus Mundi Switzerland - Health for all
• CASB Centre for African Studies Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland

Social media

• LinkedIn
• ResearchGate

Projects

• DSembedded: Integrating discipline-specific Know How into Data Stewardship / Team member / Project ongoing
• Competences for inter-professional cooperation and appropriate teaching formats / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Zysset, Annina; Schwärzler, Patricia; Dratva, Julia,

  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), pp. 6804.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20196804

• 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.

  Interprofessional educators' competencies, assessment, and training - IPEcat : protocol of a global consensus study.

  Journal of Interprofessional Care.

  36(5), pp. 765-769.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2021.2001445

• Nodjiadjim Laoubaou, Abdias; Wyss, Kaspar; Schwärzler, Patricia; Obrist, Brigit; Bergman, Manfred Max,

  2006.

  Communication socioculturelle comme outil de prévention des maladies sexuellement transmissibles et le VIH chez les adolescents au Tchad.

  VertigO.

  2006(3).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4000/vertigo.1852

• 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.

  Basel:

  Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Basel.

• Sy, Ibrahim; Schwärzler, Patricia; Kouadio, Alain Serge; Kablan, Cléopatre; Granado, Stefanie; Obrist, Brigit; Tanner, Marcel; Cissé, Guéladio,

  2010.

  An interdisciplinary vulnerability and resilience approach to health risks in under-privileged urban contexts in West Africa

  .

  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

• Schwärzler, Patricia,

  2010.

  Sex and the City : Erzählungen alter Männer und Frauen über jugendliche Sexualiät und AIDS in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

  .

  In:

  Dilger, Hansjörg; Hadolt, Bernhard, eds.,

  Medizin im Kontext : Krankheit und Gesundheit in einer vernetzten Welt.

  Frankfurt am Main:

  Peter Lang.

  pp. 389-409.

• 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)

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