Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger |
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 Dr. Stuckelberger is a gerontologist and internationally recognized expert in aging. She is currently a lecturer and researcher at Geneva School of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva. After a Bachelor of science on cross-cultural psychology and health with WHO, she obtained a doctorate from the University of Geneva with a population study on ageing gender differential subjective health. She holds more than a hundred scientific publications, as well as political expertises and reports for Swiss governmental agencies, the European Commission, WHO and several United Nations specialized agencies and programmes. She has published several books, scientific articles, policy papers and governmental or UN reports and expertises in different aspects of aging. She is President of the Geneva International Network on Ageing (GINA) and Chair of the NGO Committee on Ageing at the United Nations in Geneva where she is a permanent representative of the Society of Psychological Studies of Social Issues (SPSSI, USA based) and the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG).It is worth mentioning that during the last decade, as Deputy-Director of the Swiss National Research Programme on Aging, she created with WHO and AARP, the Geneva International Network on Ageing (GINA) and received an Award from the UN Secretary-General in New York for the work accomplished for the UN International Year of Older Persons. |
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