Biography
I have a background in clinical psychology and philosophy. I received my PhD in public health ethics and chronic disease from UCL in 2021. Since then, I have been working on the CanRisk programme, which is funded by Cancer Research UK. My research explores conceptual and practical questions about justice and wellbeing in public health. I am interested in better understanding the difference between how biomedicine and patients understand and navigate risk-based decisions about health, which are at the centre of clinical practice, from disease prevention to the day-to-day management of chronic diseases. Between 2022 and 2023, I co-led a qualitative study looking into the acceptability of CanRisk in primary care and the user-centred design of the MyCanRisk app. Between 2023 and 2024, I led the co-design of the new CanRisk report, and the development and mixed methods evaluation of an online training programme on multifactorial breast cancer risk prediction for primary care professionals. I currently lead the process evaluations of two studies, one looking into the feasibility, acceptability and psychological impact of using CanRisk in primary care, and the other, assessing the psycho-social, clinical and economic impact of conducting upfront CanRisk assessments in unaffected women referred to NHS clinical genetics clinics.
Research
Participatory research methods, health humanities, the phenomenology of disease and illness, epistemic justice in healthcare, tensions around responsibility and autonomy in healthcare, and solidarity and trust in population strategies, risk communication, miscommunication and misunderstanding, and uncertainty.
Publications
1. Stutzin Donoso, F., Usher-Smith, J., Antoniou, A. C., et al (2025). Primary care online training on multifactorial breast cancer risk: pre-post evaluation study. BJGP Open. In Press.
2. Stutzin Donoso, F., Carver, T., Ficorella, L., et al. (2024). Improving the communication of multifactorial cancer risk assessment results for different audiences: a co-design process. Journal of Community Genetics. doiI: 10.1007/s12687-024-00729-4
3. Stutzin Donoso, F (2024). From self-management to shared-management: a relational approach for equitable chronic care. Public Health Ethics. Doi: 10.1093/phe/phae007
4. Archer, S.* & Stutzin Donoso, F.* Carver T, Yue A, Cunningham AP, Ficorella L, Tischkowitz M, Easton DF, Antoniou AC, Emery J, Usher-Smith J, Walter FM (2023). Exploring the barriers to and facilitators of implementing CanRisk in primary care: a qualitative thematic framework analysis. British Journal of General Practice. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2022.0643. (* Joint first authors).
5. Usher-Smith, J. Hindmarch, S., French, D., Tischkowitz, M., Moorthie, S., Walter, F.. Dennison, R., Stutzin Donoso, F., Archer, S., Taylor, L., Emery. J., Morris, S., Easton, D., Antoniou, A. (2023). Proactive breast cancer risk assessment in primary care: a review based on the principles of screening. British Journal of Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-023-02145-w
6. Stutzin Donoso, F. (2022). Chronicity: a key concept to deliver ethically driven chronic care. Journal of Medical Ethics. Doi:10.1136/medethics-2022-108330
7. Stutzin Donoso, F (2021). The concepts of health and disease: Underlying assumptions in the idea of value in medical interventions, in Schildmann, J., Buch, C. and Zerth, J. (eds) Defining the Value of Medical Interventions. Normative and Empirical Challenges. Kohlhammer
8. Archer, S., Fennell, N., Colvin, E., Laquindanum, R., Mills, M., Dennis, R., Stutzin Donoso, F., Gold, R., Fan, A., Downes, K., Ford, J., Antoniou, A.C., Kurian, A.W., Evans, D.G., Tischkowitz, M. (2022). Personalised Risk Prediction in Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: A Protocol for a Multi-Centre Randomised Controlled Trial. Cancers. 14, 2716. doi.org/10.3390/cancers14112716
9. Stutzin Donoso, F. (2020). Understanding the problem of long-term treatment adherence: a phenomenological framework. Journal of Medical Humanities. 2021 Dec;47(4):466-474. Doi: 10.1136/medhum-2019-011836. Epub 2020 Aug 4. PMID: 32753548.
10. Stutzin Donoso, F. (2018). Chronic disease as risk multiplier for disadvantage. Journal of Medical Ethics, 44(6), 371-375. Doi:10.1136/medethics-2017-104321 11. Markkula, N., Cabieses, B., Lehti, V., Uphoff, E., Astorga, S., and Stutzin Donoso, F (2018). Use of health care among international migrant children – a systematic review. Globalization and Health. doi.org/10.1186/s12992-018-0370-9
