2022 Visiting Professor Equality Diversity and Inclusion Series

The Gendered Curriculum: Identifying and addressing gender bias in our teaching.

Date: Monday 10 October 2022

Time: 12pm - 1pm

Venue: Zoom

This event is free and open to all, registration is via Zoom

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Teaching Medical Students about Gender Bias in Patient Management

Date: Tuesday 11 October 2022

Time: 11am - 12pm

Format: in-person and online

Venue: registration via Eventbrite Room 3.51, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James’s Hospital.

Online: registration via Zoom

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Carole CLAIR
Carole Clair is an Associate Professor in medicine at the University of Lausanne. She works as a general internist and researcher at the Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), where she currently co-directs the Health and Gender Unit.

After her clinical training, she did a post-doctorate from 2009 to 2011 at the Tobacco Research and Treatment Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (USA). In parallel, she completed a Master in Science in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. She obtained her Master of Science in 2012.

She has developed a research interest around gender and health and currently leads several research projects to better understand the influence of sex and gender in clinical medicine. She also leads a project to implement gender in the pregraduate teaching of medical students at the University of Lausanne. She is a member of  the European Commission’s Gendered Innovations 2 Expert Group.

Joëlle SCHWARZ
Joëlle Schwarz is a public health researcher with a background in sociology (MA) and epidemiology (PhD, MSc). She co-leads the Health and Gender Unit at the Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

After working on bilateral cooperation projects in primary health care and sexual and reproductive health in low-income countries, she obtained a PhD from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel. She conducted her doctoral research on the topic of Family Planning practices and policies in Burundi.

At Unisanté, she supervises and implements research projects in the field of gender medicine, developing tools and approaches for the inclusion of sex and gender in quantitative health research. She lectures and coordinates educational activities at the Lausanne Faculty of Biology and Medicine on the topic of gender and medicine, including on the topic of gender bias in clinical practice, as well as qualitative methods and social sciences in health.