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minerva.rivas@hesge.ch
+41 22 558 77 69
Haute école de santé - Genève
Avenue de Champel 47, 1206 Genève, CH
I am an Associate Professor at the Geneva School of Health Science and a member of the editorial board of Bioetica Forum, part of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics. I also coordinate the Disability Data Initiative Hub for Europe and Central Asia. In 2015, I earned a PhD in Philosophy of Medicine from the University of Sydney, focusing on Article 25, "Health," of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). I also hold a Master’s in Applied Social Research from Trinity College Dublin.
After completing my PhD, I worked at the International Labour Organization, where I studied intersectionality in relation to the CRPD, and later at the Disability Unit of the OHCHR, focusing on Article 11 of the CRPD. I then joined the Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics at the Faculty of Medicine in Geneva. In 2018, as a research fellow at the Bioethics Laboratory (IEH2) within the same faculty, I investigated ethical issues related to healthcare access and the use of technology in healthcare.
In 2021, I was awarded the Ambizione grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to lead a study aimed at improving healthcare access for people with disabilities through information and communication technologies. I have also been a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Universidad del Rosario in Colombia.
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Perreault, M. L., Taylor-Bragge, R., Chneiweiss, H., McLachlan, A. D., Gregory, T. R., Khalid, R., Bassil, K., Svalastog, A. L., Velarde, M. R., Illes, J.
(2025). Indigenous representation in neuroscience scholarship, teaching and care : Nature Reviews - Neuroscience.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00933-2
Auteur(s) : Minerva Rivas
Izquierdo Martinez, L. C., Groce, N. E., Hurst, S., Martinez, R. A., Cuculick, J., Rivas Velarde, M. C.
(2025). Key components in the professional ethics of sign language interpreters in healthcare contexts: a qualitative study in Colombia : BMJ open.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086490
Auteur(s) : Minerva Rivas
Illes, J., Perreault, M. L., Bassil, K., Bjaalie, J. G., Taylor-Bragge, R. L., Chneiweiss, H., Gregory, T. R., Kumar, B. N., Matshabane, O. P., Svalastog, A. L., Velarde, M. R.
(2025). Two-eyed seeing and other Indigenous perspectives for neuroscience : Nature.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08437-2
Auteur(s) : Minerva Rivas
Chavarria, M. A., Rivas Velarde, M.
(2025). When innovation is perpetrating inequities: the pivotal role of contextualisation in the development of assistive technology for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) : Bioethica forum.https://doi.org/10.24894/BF.2024.17003
Auteur(s) : Minerva Rivas
González-Vargas, A., Barragán Gómez, J., Chavarria, M., Rivas Velarde, M. (2024). Barriers for adoption and innovation on rehabilitation technology in LMIC countries : a case study in Colombia : The Routledge International handbook of disability and global health .
https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/14453?ln=fr
Auteur(s) : Minerva Rivas
Rivas Velarde, M., Lovis, C., Ienca, M., Samer, C., Hurst, S.
(2024). Consent as a compositional act : a framework that provides clarity for the retention and use of data : Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-024-00152-0
Auteur(s) : Minerva Rivas
Carpenter, B., Kamalakannan, S., Patchaiappan, K., Theiss, K., Yap, J., Hanass-Hancock, J., Murthy, G. V. S., Pinilla-Roncancio, M., Rivas Velarde, M., Mitra, S.
(2024). Data resource profile : the disability statistics - estimates database (DS-E Database) : an innovative database of internationally comparable statistics on disability inequalities : International journal of population data science.https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v8i6.2478
Auteur(s) : Minerva Rivas
Carpenter, B., Kamalakannan, S., Saikam, P., Alvarez, D. V., Hanass-Hancock, J., Murthy, G. V. S., Pinilla-Roncancio, M., Rivas Velarde, M., Teodoro, D., Mitra, S.
(2024). Data resource profile: the disability statistics questionnaire review database (DS-QR Database): a database of population censuses and household surveys with internationally comparable disability questions : International Journal of Population Data Science.https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v8i6.2477
Auteur(s) : Minerva Rivas
Nascimento Dial, A., Vicente, D., Mitra, S., Teodoro, D., Rivas Velarde, M.
(2024). Did high frequency phone surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic include disability questions? An assessment of COVID-19 surveys from March 2020 to December 2022 : BMJ open.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079760
Auteur(s) : Minerva Rivas
Izquierdo Martínez, L. C., Martínez-R, A., Strasly, I., Rivas Velarde, M. (2024). Linguistic and cultural adaptation of the National Quality of Life Survey in Colombia for the deaf population : Translation and interpreting studies : the journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association.
https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.22084.izq
Auteur(s) : Minerva Rivas