Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

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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SNSF project grant on unmet research needs in primary ciliary dyskinesia

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.

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New online portal

Join now the Swiss Rare Disease Registry using the new online portal

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.

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Prize for the Best Research Highlight Presentation at the PCD Annual Research Meeting 2024 in Vienna

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

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Swiss Public Health Doctors Award 2024 for best medical Master’s thesis

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.

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