Biography
I am a clinical psychologist from Santiago, Chile. Between 2011 and 2015, I provided mental health services in disadvantaged contexts where I supported people living with HIV and families navigating the child protection services. During this time, I also completed a master’s degree in contemporary thought at the Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad Diego Portales. My research was part of a larger project on the temporality and finality of life led by Professor Juan Manuel Garrido. In 2015, I moved to London and completed a master’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health at University College London. My research focused on chronic diseases and the reproduction of disadvantages within universal health coverage systems, which I continued developing in my doctoral studies with Professor James Wilson and Professor Sonu Shamdasani. I received my PhD in public health ethics and chronic disease from University College London in 2021. I currently work on the CanRisk programme, which is funded by Cancer Research UK.
Research
My work focuses on conceptual and practical questions about justice and wellbeing in public health. I am interested in the ethics of risk and the negotiation of multiple demands in different contexts. My perspective highlights the dynamism and complexity in the spaces between the offer, uptake and outcome of healthcare interventions, such as cancer risk predictions, screening programmes and long-term treatments.
I am also interested in 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.
Publications
Stutzin Donoso, F. (2021). ‘Understanding the problem of long-term treatment adherence: a phenomenological framework’, Medical Humanities, 47/4: 466–74. Institute of Medical Ethics. DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2019-011836
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.
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
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
