Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine

Uni Mittelstrasse Bern

The Institute provides undergraduate and postgraduate education and carries out interdisciplinary research in the fields of social and behavioral health, clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, and international and environmental health.

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Profile:

  • We see health as a participatory, intersectoral, and transdisciplinary process, which is continuously created via interactions between people and their social and natural environment at the local, regional, national, and global level.
  • ISPM lecturers provide undergraduate teaching in medicine, pharmacy, biomedical engineering, biomedical sciences, and climate sciences at the University of Bern.
  • ISPM engages in University of Bern PhD and postgraduate course programs and offers 3 CAS.
  • ISPM includes two research platforms and over ten research groups covering areas from child and adolescent and environmental health to HIV, cancer, and non-communicable diseases with a strong methodological focus and the development of new methods.

External Partners:

Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research; Paraplegieforschung Schweiz; Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern; Clinics of the University Hospital Bern, Inselspital; the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN), SwissPedNet, Swiss Federal of Public Health (FOPH); Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, Canada

Grants:

  • SNSF: 1 Starting Grant: ACTUAL
  • 1 NCCS-Impact Projects: Bundesamt für Meteorologie und Klimatologie MeteoSchweiz
  • 1 SBFI Grant: ESCAPE ; 1 SPHN Grant; 1 KLS /KFS Grant
  • Galenos Oxford