Brigitta Danuser
Brigitta Danuser is Professor of Occupational Medicine at the University of Lausanne and headed the Institut universitaire romand de Santé au Travail (IST) from 2005 to 2015. Since 1993 she has been active in the development and management of the MAS and today's DAS “Work + Health”, which trains occupational physicians and hygienists, from 2012 to 2018 as its academic director.
Career
Brigitta Danuser studied medicine at the University of Zurich and completed her habilitation at the ETH Zurich on the subject of “motivated attention” in work physiology. Her psychophysiological research aims to better understand modern, emotional, cognitive and public work. Your research work is characterized by a high level of transdisciplinarity, motivated by the broad research field of work + health. Back to work and the socio-political system and its effects on work + health issues have become the most important research focus in recent years.
At the Institut de Santé au Travail, Brigitta Danuser set up various consultations for employees: “Promptance” or stress consultation hours, general occupational medical consultation hours, and consultation hours on maternity protection and work-related respiratory and lung problems.
Awards
In 2012 Brigitta Danuser was awarded the Joseph Rutenfranz Medal of the German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine for her psychophysiological research.
engagement
Brigitta Danuser was President of the Swiss Society for Occupational Medicine from 2003 to 2010. She has been a member of the Federal Labor Commission since 2009.
Publications
- Brigitta Danuser: Homo laborans. Being healthy and sick at work. Versus, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03909-264-2 .
- Brigitta Danuser and Viviane Gonik (Hrsg./ed.): The work: a re-vision. / Le travail: our re-vision. Chronos, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-0340-1092-4 .
- List of publications on the University of Lausanne website
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DAS Work + Health on the website of the University of Zurich
- ↑ Available from the ETH Zurich Research Collection
- ↑ Website office hours at the IST
- ↑ Winner of the Joseph Rutenfranz Medal DGAUM German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, PDF file
- ^ Members of the Federal Working Commission on the website of the Swiss Confederation
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Danuser, Brigitta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Occupational doctor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |