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04.03.2025 – Researchers at the Multidisciplinary Centre for Infectious Diseases (MCID) are preparing the canton of Bern for future pandemics with the BEready long-term study. Continue reading

03.03.2025 – 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. Continue reading

18.02.2025 – 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. Continue reading

17.02.2025 – 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. Continue reading

04.02.2025 – Carina Nigg receives the first prize of the Science Award 2023/2024 of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund; DOSB) in Frankfurt. Continue reading

29.01.2025 – Coral Salvador, a postdoc researcher working at the University of Vigo, has been awarded a SNSF Ambizione on her project IGIA-SETH (unravelInG the ImpActs of droughtS on human hEalTH). The project will start in July 2025 at the Climate Epidemiology and Public Health research group at ISPM. She has been a visiting researcher of the team between 2022 and 2024. Continue reading

17.12.2024 – The SIRIS Foundation and the ANQ have once again published the University of Bern's annual analyses of the SIRIS hip and knee implant registry. Continue reading

13.12.2024 – Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera, the current head of the climate change and health team at ISPM, has been recently appointed by the Executive Board of the University of Bern as Professor in Climate Impact and Public Health in the Built Environment. This is an endowed position by the Mobilière Cooperative and the professorship will be based at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) and the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research (OCCR). Continue reading

10.12.2024 – Cancer survivors face a heightened risk of developing second tumors, according to the first-ever national Health Report on Cancer, with major contributions from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry (ChCR), hosted at ISPM Bern. Continue reading

19.11.2024 – Carole Metekoua Temdemnou received the prize for the best talk at the 16th symposium of the Graduate School for Health Sciences, held at Studienzentrum Gerzensee on 31st October and 1st November 2024. Continue reading

14.11.2024 – The Swiss Cerebral Palsy Registry (Swiss-CP-Reg) has received a five-year funding commitment from Foundation Cerebral. The funding will support the continuation and critical core activities of the Swiss-CP-Reg. Continue reading

28.10.2024 – On last Friday, ISPM and FMH hosted a symposium devoted to patient safety in the era of digital transformation. International keynote speakers and a lively discussion made the event a great success.  Continue reading

23.10.2024 – The Community Health and Healthcare Systems Research Group at ISPM welcomed a delegation from the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) Singapore for a learning exchange about a range of topics, including healthy aging, palliative care, and care integration last October 21. Continue reading

18.10.2024 – The Confederation and cantons are constantly working to improve the understanding of cancer and ensure the best possible care for all patients. In order to obtain an overall picture of cancer in Switzerland, cancer registration has been required by law since 1 January 2020. But what are the benefits of cancer registration and how does it work? Continue reading

07.10.2024 – New recommendations for monitoring lung health in childhood cancer survivors, developed under the leadership of Prof. Claudia Kuehni, were presented to the global respiratory community at the 2024 European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Vienna. Continue reading

02.10.2024 – Myrofora Goutaki has been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation project grant to tackle two important and clinically relevant aspects of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), a rare genetic disease that affects multiple organ systems. Continue reading

01.10.2024 – Approximately 580,000 individuals in Switzerland live with a rare disease. The Swiss Rare Diseases Registry (SRDR) was established to address the issue of limited data on rare diseases and improve knowledge about them, contributing to better conditions for people with rare diseases and their families in Switzerland. Continue reading

23.09.2024 – Leonie Schreck received the prize for the Best Research Highlight Presentation at the primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) Annual Research Meeting 2024 in Vienna. Continue reading

16.08.2024 – We congratulate Michelle Hauser from ISPM Bern for winning the Swiss Public Health Doctors (SPHD) Award 2024 and presenting her work at the Swiss Public Health Conference in Fribourg. Continue reading

17.06.2024 – Virginia Chiocchia, postdoctoral researcher in the Evidence Synthesis Methods group led by Professor Georgia Salanti, received the award for Swiss Reproducibility Award 2024 for Early Career Researchers in the category biology and medicine. Continue reading

03.06.2024 – Leonie Schreck received the 1^st and Beatriz Guerra Buezo the 2^nd prize for the Best Oral presentations on Paediatric Pneumonology research at the 2024 joint annual meeting of the Swiss Societies of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery in Baden. Continue reading

27.05.2024 – On last Friday (May 24^th), ISPM’s David Schwappach awarded the Innovation Qualité in the category Patient Safety to Olga Endrich, Robert Hoepner and Stefanie Marti from Inselspital Bern for their project „Multiple-Sklerose-Cockpit“. Congratulations! Continue reading

21.05.2024 – Join the University of Bern's BEready study, involving 1500 households in the Canton of Bern, to prepare for future pandemics, epidemics, and infectious diseases. Continue reading

15.05.2024 – Dr. Harvy Joy Liwanag, postdoctoral research fellow of the Community Health and Health(care) Systems Research Group, has undertaken a six-week research visit to the Nossal Institute for Global Health in the University of Melbourne, Australia from April to May 2024 to initiate scientific collaborations in global health. Continue reading

12.04.2024 – Together with researchers from Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and the Multi-Country Multi-City Collaborative (MCC) Research Network, the team led by Prof. Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera recently published a new study about the impact of population aging on future temperature-related mortality. Continue reading

22.03.2024 – The structured course program in the Public Health Sciences (PHS) aims to foster a comprehensive understanding of Public Health and develop competencies in key research methods and applications. Continue reading

06.02.2024 – Myrofora Goutaki received the prize for the Best Clinical Research Poster presentation at the 2024 primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) On The Move Conference organised by the PCD Foundation for the Living with PCD study. Continue reading