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

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

15/07/2025

Christina Schindera receives the venia docendi – We are delighted to announce that Christina Schindera has been awarded the venia docendi (habilitation) for her research on cardiovascular health in survivors of childhood cancer. https://bit.ly/4o3eEpA

07/07/2025

Participatory study on health behaviours in childhood cancer survivors – Claudia Kuehni (Principal Investigator) and Carina Nigg (Co-Applicant) received funding from Swiss Cancer Research to investigate and improve health behaviours among long-term survivors of childhood cancer. https://bit.ly/4nzKUjJ

07/07/2025

Grant Swiss Cancer Research – Fabiën Belle received a grant from Swiss Cancer Research/ Krebsforschung Schweiz. Fabiën Belle (Principal Investigator) and Christina Schindera (Co-Applicant) have received funding from Swiss Cancer Research for their project “Trajectories of Growth and Weight of Childhood Cancer Patients: From Birth to Late Adulthood”. https://bit.ly/46fw0cr

13/06/2025

SwissPedNet NextGen Research Podcast Session prize at the paediatrics Switzerland 2025 annual congress Franco Romero, PhD student at ISPM Bern, won the Best Podcast-Format Research – Franco Romero, PhD student at ISPM Bern, won the Best Podcast-Format Research Presentation award at the 2025 Swiss Paediatric Conference for his work on using routine electronic health records to enhance data collection in paediatric cohort studies. His project, part of the SPHN-SPAC Demonstrator Project, highlighted both the potential and challenges of integrating standardised routine clinical data into paediatric research.
https://bit.ly/3HxOrPc

19/05/2025

Electronic Medical Record usability and patient safety – through the eyes of physicians – Despite widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs), concerns persist regarding their usability and implications for patient safety. David Schwappach from ISPM together with colleagues from Switzerland and the US developed and validated a new survey instrument that reliably captures physicians’ perceptions of EMR usability – with a focus on patient safety–relevant domains.
https://bit.ly/4dpg7BF

04/03/2025

Getting Bern ready for future pandemics – Researchers at the Multidisciplinary Centre for Infectious Diseases (MCID) are preparing the canton of Bern for future pandemics with the BEready long-term study.
https://bit.ly/41lValj

04/03/2025

Research Findings on Sports Participation and Parenthood in the Media Spotlight – Research results by Lars Lenze, a member of the research group on community health and health care systems, were recently featured in newspapers from the Tamedia group (e.g., Tagesanzeiger, Berner Zeitung). His study examines how becoming a parent influences sports and exercise behaviour, highlighting the difference between becoming a mother and a father.
https://bit.ly/3D6IW8i

28/02/2025

New factsheet published on vulnerability across the lifecourse and its relevance for health equity in health promotion and prevention – Annika Frahsa and her research group on community health and health care systems research had a mandate by Health Promotion Switzerland on particularly vulnerable population groups in health promotion and prevention. This mandate was to strengthen the issue of health equity in the development and implementation of the new cantonal action programs on health promotion and prevention. https://bit.ly/3QnP12Y

18/02/2025

Overcoming Barriers: Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera's Journey in Climate Health Research – Environmental epidemiologist Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera discusses the challenges she faced as a young foreign woman in academia and her dedication to studying the health impacts of climate change.
https://bit.ly/41kIgFs

04/02/2025

First Prize of the German Olympic Sports Confederation’s Science Award – Carina Nigg receives the first prize of the Science Award 2023/2024 of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund; DOSB) in Frankfurt.
https://bit.ly/3WLymdq

Adresse

Mittelstrasse 43
Bern
3012

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

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