The Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern provides undergraduate and postgraduate education and carries out interdisciplinary research in the fields of social and behavioural health, clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, and international and environmental health. Eminent speakers from Switzerland and abroad give presentations at monthly lectures where researchers from other institutes and members of the public are welcome to attend.
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Factsheet
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.
News, 18.02.2025
March 20, 2025
16:00
Mittelstrasse 43, 2012 Bern, Room 216 or Zoom
Prof. Anna Lene Seidler, German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (Site Greifswald/Rostock)
The Bern Lectures in Health Science
Video Interview
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.
News, 17.02.2025
First Prize 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.
News, 29.01.2025
Mittelstrasse 43 3012 Bern
Phone: +41 31 684 35 11 info.ispm@unibe.ch