Clémentine Rossier is Director of the Institute of Demography and Socioeconomics (SDS, Unige) and Co-Director of LIVES Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research. Her research aims to renew the measurement of constantly evolving reproductive and family practices and to document their implications for social and gender inequalities throughout the life course. In sexual and reproductive health, she collaborates with the WHO (Geneva), the Guttmacher Institute (New York), the ISSP (Burkina Faso) and APHRC (Kenya) to measure unsafe abortions and highlight the links between contraceptive use and women’s empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa. In the field of family research, she has worked with the LIVES Centre to analyse health and well-being in more egalitarian families (two full-time, two part-time, breadwinner) in Switzerland. She is currently developing studies on the contribution of family ties to social support, in collaboration with the IHEID (Geneva) and the Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques in Paris.
Within GenFam Clémentine Rossier works on family structures, relationships, and well-being as well as fertility behaviour and reproductive decision-making.