Biography
Francisca studied Psychology at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, where her clinical work with underserved communities sparked a lasting interest in how social contexts influence health and wellbeing. She moved to London to pursue a Master’s in Philosophy, Politics & Economics of Health at University College London, later completing her PhD on chronic diseases and the reproduction of disadvantage within universal health coverage systems. In 2021, Francisca joined the University of Cambridge as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on a Cancer Research UK–funded project, and in 2023, she became a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at Wolfson College.
Research
Francisca’s research explores how people negotiate risk-based decisions for health and wellbeing , offering deeper insight into the complex dynamics shaping the spaces between the offer, uptake, and outcomes of healthcare interventions such as cancer risk assessments, screening programmes, and long-term treatments.
Publications
- Stutzin Donoso, F. “What can the lived experience of chronicity teach us about long COVID? From illness narratives to structural injustice in chronic disease.” In Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy: Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic, edited by Silvia Camporesi, Sanny Mulubale, and Mark D. M. Davis, 179-194. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197778982.003.0012
- Stutzin Donoso, F., Usher-Smith, J., Antoniou, A. C., et al. “Primary care online training on multifactorial breast cancer risk: pre-post evaluation study.” BJGP Open. 2025. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2024.0305
- Stutzin Donoso, F., Carver, T., Ficorella, L., et al. “Improving the communication of multifactorial cancer risk assessment results for different audiences: a co-design process.” Journal of Community Genetics. 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s12687-024-00729-4.
- Stutzin Donoso, F. “From self-management to shared-management: a relational approach for equitable chronic care.” Public Health Ethics. 2024;17(3):85-100. DOI: 10.1093/phe/phae007
- Archer, S.* & Stutzin Donoso, F.* et al. “Exploring the barriers to and facilitators of implementing CanRisk in primary care: a qualitative thematic framework analysis.” British Journal of General Practice. 2023. DOI: 10.3399/BJGP.2022.0643. (*Joint first authors)
- 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. “Proactive breast cancer risk assessment in primary care: a review based on the principles of screening.” British Journal of Cancer. 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-023-02145-w.
- Stutzin Donoso F. “Chronicity: a key concept to deliver ethically driven chronic care.” Journal of Medical Ethics. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2022-108330
- Stutzin Donoso, F. “Understanding the problem of long‑term treatment adherence: a phenomenological framework.” Medical Humanities. December 2021 Special Issue: Transplantation and its Imaginaries. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011836
