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

20/03/2026

David Schwappach honored with Patient Safety Leadership Award – The Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) is proud to announce that Professor David Schwappach has been awarded the Robert L. Wears Patient Safety Leadership Award in February 2026.
https://bit.ly/4lD6nHQ

10/02/2026

uniAKTUELL: Interview with BEready Project Manager Eva Maria Hodel – After 18 intensive months, enrollment for the 'Bern, get ready' (BEready) study has been completed. This globally unique collection of data on infectious diseases in humans and pets is intended to help mitigate the effects of the next pandemic. In the interview, BEready Project Manager Eva Maria Hodel explains how BEready helps to prepare for the next pandemic.
https://bit.ly/3O4L2up

06/02/2026

ISPM participation in NCCR on Climate Extremes and Society – Prof. Ana Vicedo Cabrera and the Climate Epidemiology and Public Health research group participate in the new National Centre of Competence in Research on «Climate Extremes and Society» in highlighting the human health dimension. The NCCR is funded by the SNSF and is co-led by the ETH Zurich and the University of Bern. https://bit.ly/4bErA1m

02/02/2026

uniAKTUELL: Interview with ISPM Director – Angèle Gayet-Ageron, Director of the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), explains why s*x and gender need to be systematically taken into account in medical research.
https://bit.ly/4qUJodt

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

Adresse

Mittelstrasse 43
Bern
3012

Webseite

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

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