Elisabeth Zemp Stutz

Professional Activities

  • Research on women's health and the role of gender with a focus on women's health reporting
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Gender-related factors in health care, in communication in medical settings, and in respiratory health

Higher Education & Qualifications

  • 2002: Habilitation (Venia docendi) in Medicine for Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Basel
  • 1991 / 1992: Master of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
  • 1982: State Exam in Medicine
  • 1977-1978: Language studies in Paris and Arezzo, Italy
  • 1974-1982: Medical studies, University of Basel

Work Experience

  • Since October 2005: Deputy Director ad interim of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel
  • Since 1993: Head of the research focus Women, Gender and Health
  • 1992-1999: Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellow (PROSPER programme)
  • 1996: Specialist Certification FMH - Prevention and Public Health
  • 1995-1999: Co-Director of the National Programme of Action 'Women's Health - Focus on HIV', funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health
  • 1994: Maternity leave
  • Summer 1992: Research Fellow at the Department of Environmental Health of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
  • 1990-1991: Internships, Department of Internal Medicine, and Department of Pneumology, University Hospital of Basel
  • 1988-1990: Scientific Assistant at the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Basel, Adjunct to the Programme Director of the National Research Foundation Project 26 A (The health of human beings in their contemporary environment: Physical environment and health)
  • 1984-1988: Internships and Scientific Assistant in Division of Angiology, at the Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital of Basel
  • 1982-1984: Scientific Assistant, Swiss Health Survey SOMIPOPS, Swiss National Research Foundation National Research Project 8 (Scientificity and Efficacy of the Swiss Health Care System)