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Marlies Visser, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in (global) public health with expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research on the social determinants of health, with a focus on gender-related health inequalities, women and girls' health and health-related stigma. Overall, her research aims to understand how social conditions shape health, disease, and health inequalities.
Marlies her PhD research focused on understanding how cultural and gender mechanisms shape the characterization and manifestation of health-related stigma, to improve approaches to stigma prevention and reduction.
She is a lecturer and she has coordinated various bachelor and master level university courses in the field of global (public) health, human rights and disability.
Marlies works in the Child and Adolescent Public health Research and Innovation Section at the Department of Public and Occupational Health at the Amsterdam UMC.