Commission for Equality and the Advancement of Women

According to the statutes of the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (as of 25.1.2016), point 4.1, there is a Commission for Equality and the Advancement of Women.

Its task is to counteract discrimination by university bodies on the basis of gender as well as on the basis of ethnicity, religion or belief, age or sexual orientation and to advise and support the members and bodies of the university in these matters.

Members

Chair (Responsible member of the Rectorate)

• Prof. Dr Rudolf Mallinger

Representative of the Heads of Study Programmes

• Mag.a Ursula Föger-Samwald, PhD

Representatives of the academic university staff

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Giovanni Rubeis
• Univ.-Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch

Representative of the non-scientific staff of the KL

• Mag.^a Afitap Derya Köprülü-Rössl, PhD

Representative of the external teachers

• Univ.-Prof.in DIⁱⁿ Dr.iⁿ Isabella Ellinger

Representative of the ordinary student body

• Hanna Schueler

Advisory members

• Women's representative Dr.ⁱⁿ Brigitte Schigl, MSc
• Disability Commissioner Silvia Koller

As of 9 March 2023, the Gender Sensitive Language Policy at KL will come into force until revoked or revised.