Stéphane Cullati

PhD, Privat Dozent - Habilitation

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 stephane.cullati@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 9474
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3881-446X

Social determinants of health; Biological embedding of social life; Life course; Ageing; Prevention; Health and Social Policies; Quality and security of health care

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Abteilung Medizin

ARS 02 bu. 286
Rte des Arsenaux 41
1700 Fribourg
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ARS 02, 286
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+41 26 300 9474

Biografie

Stéphane Cullati is a health sociologist and senior lecturer in epidemiology and public health at the University of Fribourg's Population Health Laboratory. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate education at the Universities of Lausanne, Geneva (Switzerland) and Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble (France) and obtained his PhD in sociology at the University of Geneva. He did postdoctoral research at the University College London Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health. His specialises in sociology of health and medicine, and social epidemiology. His research interests are inequalities and social stratification in health, healthy ageing, and life course theory. He has conducted empirical research on the impact of life course on health, of public policies on health inequalities, the evolution (historical time trend) of social inequalities in health and in prevention (e.g., cancer screening) and social-to-biological transitions. He also led theoretical developments in life course and healthy ageing research, on the role of reserves in the development of vulnerability. He has authored or co-authored more than 140 peer-reviewed papers among a total of more than 200 publications. Since 2019, he is President of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology.

Stéphane is also sociologist of healthcare organisations working at the University Hospitals of Geneva from 2007 to 2024. His research focused are quality and safety of health care, health of healthcare professionals, interprofessional collaboration and sociology of medical professions. He has conducted empirical researches on the role of emotion (related to providing patient care) on the mental health of healthcare professionals. He has also studied the role of professional identity in teamwork collaboration, and patient satisfaction with care.

 

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