Dr. Minerva Rivas Velarde

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Biography

Minerva Rivas Velarde is a Principal Investigator for the Ambizione grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. She leads the Europe Central Asia Disability Data Initiative Hub and is associated with the HI5LAB: Health Informatics Innovation, Integration, Implementation Impact lab, focusing on biomedical ethics. Rivas Velarde has contributed to significant projects, including a collaboration with the EssentialTech initiative at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne aimed at developing affordable assistive technology. Her previous roles include being a research fellow at the Institute of Ethics, History, Humanities (IEH2) of the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva, and a visiting fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center of Harvard Law School. She has held teaching positions at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad del Rosario in Colombia and the University of Sydney, where she co-led a program in tertiary education focused on people with intellectual disabilities. Rivas Velarde has worked with the World Health Organization and other international bodies on disability-related research and policy. Her research interests encompass Disability, Intersectionality, ICT, Biomedical Ethics, Disability Studies, and Global Health.

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Requirements for University of Geneva

Master Program
Requirements
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Total
Required:92
Prerequisites
Bachelor degree from a recognized university Minimum 60 ECTS in management or related field for direct admission
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Specialization Notes

Includes Department of Management, Finance, Economics, and Statistics programs. GMAT is strongly encouraged but not mandatory for most GSEM masters.