Murielle Bochud

Murielle Bochud is a Swiss physician. She is co-chief of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems at the University Centre for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté) in Lausanne. Her research considers the epidemiology of cardio-metabolic diseases and genetic epidemiology.

Early life and education Bochud attended the College Du Sud, a high school in Switzerland. She completed her training in medicine in 1994. After earning her medical degree, Bochud joined Médecins Sans Frontières, and completed humanitarian missions in Burundi and Tanzania. She eventually returned to Switzerland, where she worked as a hospital doctor in Solothurn. She worked toward a doctoral degree in medicine at the University of Lausanne, and earned a PhD at Case University.

Research and career In 1997, Bochud was appointed to the clinical team at the Lausanne University Hospital. She was eventually made Deputy Director of the University of Lausanne Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in 2017. She is concerned about the relationship between cardiovascular disease, diabetes and spending too much time in front of a television screen.

During the pandemic, Bochud provided public health advice on how to avoid COVID-19.

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