Clémence Schantz

Clémence Schantz is a sociologist and a midwife, research fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) - Ceped UMR 196. Her research focuses mainly on cancers in West Africa and South-East Asia, and she is heading the SENOVIE project "Therapeutic mobility and breast cancer" funded by the Convergences and Migrations Institute (ICM - 2021-2023), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF - 2022-2025), the National Cancer Institute (INCa - 2022-2025) and the French Ambassy in Cambodia (2023-2024). She is also conducting research on HPV vaccination in France (metropolitan France and Reunion Island). Finally, her research focuses on maternal health through the biomedicalisation of childbirth in different contexts (Cambodia, Mali, Benin, France), on women's claims (particularly through the concept of "obstetric violence") and on the alternatives proposed (birthing centres and "humanised" childbirth projects).