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Minerva Rivas Velarde is a Principal Investigator of an Ambizione grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her research project team is affiliated with the HI5LAB: Health Informatics for Innovation, Integration, Implementation and Impact lab, as well as, the biomedical ethics research group. She is also leadÌýresearchÌýpartner in a collaborative projectÌýwith EssentialTech at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne to develop affordable assistive technology. Furthermore, she is member of the Editorial Board of the Swiss journal of Biomedical Ethics Bioethica Forum.

Prior to this post, Minerva was a research fellow at the Institute of Ethics, History, and Humanities (IEH2) of the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva, a Visiting Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center in Harvard Law School and visiting Professor at Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad del Rosario in Colombia.Ìý She was also a project leader in a collaborative project between the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Universidad del Rosario and AV¶ÌÊÓƵ. Minerva has also collaborated with the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, the International Labour Organization and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Before moving to Geneva at the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Sydney she co-lead the design, implementation and coordination of the first tertiary educational program in Australia for people with intellectual disability at Sydney AV¶ÌÊÓƵ and lecture at Menzies Centre for Health Policy in Global Health and Disability policy.

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Research

• Disability and intersectionalityÌý
• ICT accessibility
• Biomedical ethics
• Disability studies and global health
• Assistive Technology

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Selected journalsÌý

• Minerva Rivas Velarde, Janet E. Lord, Michael Ashley Stein & Thomas ShakespeareÌý(2021)ÌýDisarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in Colombia: Lost human rights opportunities for ex-combatants with disabilities,ÌýJournal of Human Rights,ÌýDOI:Ìý

• Jagoe C, McDonald C, Rivas M, Groce N (2021) Direct participation of people with communication disabilities in research on poverty and disabilities in low and middle income countries: A critical review. PLoS ONE 16(10): e0258575.Ìý pone.0258575 Editor: Orvalho A

• Rivas Velarde M, Lieketseng Ned, Karen Soldatic, Satendra Singh and Leslie Swartz, TheÌýHandbook on Disability and Global Health, Routledge. Forthcoming Ìý

• Rivas Velarde, M., Tsantoulis, P., Burton-Jeangros, C., Aceti, M., Chappuis, P., & Hurst-Majno, S. (2021). Citizens'Ìýviews on sharing their health data: the role of competence, reliability and pursuing the common good. BMCÌýMedical Ethics, 22(1), 1-12.

• Agata Ferretti; Marcello Ienca; Mark Sheehan; Alessandro Blasimme; Edward S. Dove; Bobbie Farsides; PhoebeÌýFriesen; Jeff Kahn; Walter Karlen; Peter Kleist; S. Matthew Liao; Camille Nebeker; Gabrielle SamuelÌýMahsa Shabani;ÌýMinerva Rivas Velarde; Effy Vayena ‘ Ethics review of big data research: what shouldÌýstay and what should be reformed? BMC Medical Ethics, 22(1), 1-13.

• Chavarria M, Mugeere A, Schönenberge K, Hurst S,ÌýRivas Velarde MÌý(2021) Design Approaches for CreatingÌýperson-centered, context sensitive, and sustainable assistive technology for personal mobility in the GlobalSouth , Ed Michael Ashley Stein & Jonathan Lazar Accessible Technology And The Developing World,Oxford AV¶ÌÊÓƵ Press. (P. 248-268)

• Martin A. Rivas Velarde M (2020) Discussing ethical issues arising from disability, Bioethica Forum, Swiss Journalof Biomedical EthicsVolume 13 / No. 1, p3-5

• Rivas Velarde M,ÌýLord J, Stain M, Shakespeare TÌý Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Colombia: Lost Human Rights Opportunities for Ex-Combatants with Disabilities, Journal of Human Rights,Ìýin print 2021

• Rivas Velarde MÌý(2021) Understanding professional health education for refugees: health systems approach, Systems Thinking for Global Health Ed. Mannan H. Vallieres F. Book- Oxford AV¶ÌÊÓƵ Press-Peer review book chapter (in-print 2021)

• Rivas Velarde MÌý(2021) Remodelling disability from an Indigenous perspective, The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability Ed. Pettinicchio D, Brown R - Oxford AV¶ÌÊÓƵ Press-Peer review book chapter (in-print 2021)

• Burkardt, A. D., Krause, N., &ÌýRivas Velarde, M. (2019). Critical success factors for the implementation and adoption of e-learning for junior health care workers in Dadaab refugee camp Kenya. Human resources for health, 17(1), 1-10.

• Rivas Velarde (2018) Indigenous Perspectives of Disability. In: Disability Studies Quarterly, 2018, vol. 38, n° 4.

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