Murielle Bochud

Murielle Bochud is a Swiss physician who is the co-chief of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems at the Unisanté in Lausanne. Her research considers the epidemiology of cardio-metabolic diseases and genetic epidemiology.

Murielle Bochud
Alma materCase University
University of Lausanne
Scientific career
InstitutionsLausanne University Hospital
Unisanté
ThesisAppropriateness of gastroscopy : gastro-esophageal reflux disease and Barrett's esophagus (2002)

Early life and education

Bochud attended the College Du Sud, a high school in Switzerland.[1] She completed her training in medicine in 1994. After earning her medical degree, Bochud joined Médecins Sans Frontières, and completed humanitarian missions in Burundi and Tanzania. She eventually returned to Switzerland, where she worked as a hospital doctor in Solothurn.[2] She worked toward a doctoral degree in medicine at the University of Lausanne, and earned a PhD at Case University.[3]

Research and career

In 1997, Bochud was appointed to the clinical team at the Lausanne University Hospital. She was eventually made Deputy Director of the University of Lausanne Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in 2017.[2] In 2019, she helped to construct the Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems, where she was made Co-Chief in August 2022.[2][4] She is concerned about the relationship between carviovascular disease, diabetes and spending too much time in front of a television screen.[5]

During the pandemic, Bochud provided public health advice on how to avoid COVID-19.[6][7]

Selected publications

References
  1. "Prof. Murielle Bochud - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  2. "BOCHUD Murielle". Unisanté (in French). Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  3. Bochud, Murielle (2007). Family-based association studies of the genetic determinants of renal sodium handling (Thesis). OCLC 999456825.
  4. NCCRWomen: Murielle Bochud, epidemiologust, retrieved 2022-08-12
  5. "La télévision nuit gravement à la santé". www.laliberte.ch (in French). Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  6. "Murielle Bochud: "Le principal est que l'ensemble de la population ait accès à une information de qualité"". Le Temps (in French). 2020-04-28. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  7. "Le Covid-19 a suscité un boom des vocations en épidémiologie et en santé publique". rts.ch (in French). 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
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