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Education Initiative on Unconscious Bias in Health Care

The goal of this project is to raise awareness on the topic of unconscious bias in health care among faculty of medical and health care professions at Swiss universities.

Description

The goal of this project is to raise awareness on the topic of unconscious bias in health care among faculty of medical and health care professions at Swiss universities.Further objectives that contribute to this overarching goal are to:

  1. Assess the current state of implementation of the topic in the curricula and assess research activity.
  2. Collect examples of implementation and teaching material where the topic is currently addressed.
  3. Conduct a workshop with faculty of medical and health care professions to share good examples for integration of the topic into the curricula.
  4. Share materials for teaching and for further education.
  5. Assess to what extent the topic can be linked to or integrated in other overlapping topics such as culture sensitive health care or gender medicine.

Key data

Deputy Projectlead

Project partners

Université de Lausanne / Unité santé et genre; Universität Basel / Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Project status

Start imminent, 08/2025

Institute/Centre

School of Health Sciences; Institute of Public Health (IPH)

Funding partner

Stiftung Swiss School of Public Health plus SSPH+

Project budget

25'000 CHF