In this episode of Conversations we speak with special guest Dr Astrid Stuckelberger scientist Dr and now World Health Organisation whistle blower.
Dr Astrid Stuckelberger (MSc PhD PD) is an international health scientist conducting and directing researches from clinical to epidemiological studies on to science for policy-makers since 30 years.
Early on, after a BSc in biology then psychology, she got involved with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Mental Health Division where she conducted a secondary analysis of an international collaborative study on cross-cultural diagnosis with which she obtained a Master of Science at the University of Geneva.
She continued her collaboration with WHO and the University Hospital of Geneva.
During the 90s, she was deputy-director of both the Swiss Research Programme on Ageing to guide Switzerland policy-makers (for the Swiss National Science Foundation) and deputy-director of the first Interdisciplinary Research Center on Gerontology in Switzerland.
She obtained a PhD in Public Health, namely the study of the determinants and mechanisms of subjective vs objective health assessment in a large cohort of the population of Geneva.
She pursued her scientific career during 20 years at the Geneva University Hospital and at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva where she obtained the higher rank of Privat-Docent of Medicine (PD) in 2014 on population longevity from individual to policy (350 pages document – a handbook for students and the public is in preparation) .
She has also been a regular professor for the Universities of Applied Science in Switzerland and senior lecturer at the University of Lausanne since 2010. To note that since end 2020, in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, Astrid’s lectures and position have been abruptly cancelled by the University of Geneva and Lausanne after speaking on public channels and media inviting her to give her expertise and scientific analysis of the COVID-19 crisis.
Astrid is awarded the title of Honorary Professor of the Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology of the Russian Academy of Medical Science in 2014, and is regularly an invited Professor in different universities.
She is the president of the Geneva International Network on Ageing funded with WHO in 1996 with the aim of scientific information, events and advocacy at the United Nations.
She has been invited the represent 2 academic NGOs at the United Nations in Geneva since 2001 (IAGG and SPSSI) which brought her to advocate for evidence-based international policy, ethics and human rights and learn the functioning of the United Nations and bilateral agencies with consultancies over the years.
Read more https://www.astridstuckelberger.com/bio/
