Institute of Social & Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

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Institute of Social & Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

The ISPM provides under-graduate and post-graduate education and carries out research in a range of disciplines relevant to public health.

For more information visit www.ispm.unibe.ch

19/12/2025

Prize for Best Poster in Clinical Studies – Anna Lange has been awarded the Prize for Best Poster in Clinical Studies at the Day of Clinical Research 2025 (DCR), organized by the Clinical Trials Unit (CTU). https://bit.ly/3KZXGcW

16/12/2025

Swiss National MD-PhD Fellowship granted to ISPM researcher
Severin Fankhauser – Severin Fankhauser, PhD student at ISPM Bern, has been awarded a Swiss National MD-PhD Fellowship by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMW). The national fellowship supports talented young physicians in pursuing research careers as clinician-scientists.
https://bit.ly/4oTmAbV

10/12/2025

Oral Presentation Prize at the Kinderklinik Research Day 2025 – Tiara Greber received the prize for the best oral presentation on clinical research at the Kinderklinik Research Day 2025 organised by the Kinderklinik of the University Hospital Bern.
https://bit.ly/48MR89x

17/11/2025

Keynote talk and new publication on participatory approaches in community health research – At the DGSMP Annual Conference 2025 in Berlin, hosted by Charite and Berlin School of Public Health, Annika Frahsa delivered a keynote on «Rethinking Participation», presenting new methodological perspectives and a conceptual model for strengthening participatory health research. Her related scoping review has just been published in Social Science & Medicine.

17/11/2025

Highly Cited Researchers – Two of our researchers at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) and Berner Institut für Hausarztmedizin (BIHAM), Georgia Salanti and Orestis Efthimiou, have been recognised by Clarivate Analytics as «Highly Cited Researchers», an honour awarded to scientists whose publications rank among the top 1 % by citations in their field. ISPM/BIHAM host two out of a total of seven highly cited researchers at the University of Bern.
https://bit.ly/47YXRwp

30/09/2025

SNSF grant: nutritional status in childhood cancer patients and survivors – Fabiën Belle (Principal Investigator) and Christina Schindera (Principal Investigator) have received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation for their project “Underweight, overweight, and linear growth of childhood cancer patients”.
https://bit.ly/48D1qdF

30/09/2025

Ewald Weibel Award for Lung Research on rare disease primary ciliary dyskinesia – PD Dr Myrofora Goutaki (ISPM) and PD Dr Loretta Müller (University Children’s hospital) will receive the Ewald Weibel Award 2025 for their outstanding research in the field of Lung and Respiration in Switzerland, particularly in the field of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD).
https://bit.ly/4pLwBtl

30/09/2025

Local research with a global perspective – Science knows no boundaries, yet it is often rooted in local communities. The BEready cohort study is an example from Bern that illustrates this point, as featured in the latest edition of uniFOKUS. BEready
https://bit.ly/3InzvE9

12/09/2025

Grippenet.ch hosted by ISPM – Grippenet.ch a participatory surveillance system presented at the «Nacht der Forschung». Grippenet.ch is a participatory surveillance system that monitors influenza-like illnesses (ILIs) in Switzerland to improve the understanding of infection transmission dynamics and to provide insights into the symptoms they cause. It was launched and implemented in Switzerland in 2016, and since 2025, it has been led by researchers from the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern.
https://bit.ly/4gjJ6Z7

02/09/2025

Swiss Epidemiology Winter School 2026: Open registration
– The 2026 Winter School features a diverse range of engaging courses led by experienced teachers. Whether you want to strengthen your methodological skills or advance your knowledge in specialized topics, there is something for everyone. Beyond the classroom, the social program offers a unique opportunity to connect with colleagues from around the world.
https://bit.ly/4meVACJ

15/08/2025

ISPM Survey in 13 Languages Seeks Out Perceptions on Smoking
Paths – A new national survey on Perspectives and Attitudes Towards Health and Smoking (PATHS) is reaching underrepresented people across Switzerland in 13 different languages. The PATHS study invites Swiss residents with a migration background to share their views on smoking and health. https://bit.ly/4lA7pCZ

18/07/2025

ISPM will host a new SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellow – Hicham Achebak, a postdoctoral researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), has been awarded the highly competitive SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship (SPF) on his project TEMPO (Temperature Exposure During Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes in Europe). Hicham will join ISPM in January 2026 to lead this 2-year project at the Climate Epidemiology and Public Health research group.
https://bit.ly/4kMH2t0

Adresse

Mittelstrasse 43
Bern
3012

Webseite

http://www.ispm.unibe.ch/

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