Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

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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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Symposium

Farewell Symposium Professor Marcel Zwahlen

Come and meet colleagues on my journey in Public Health & Epidemiology

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Annual Report

ISPM Annual Report 2023 online

Looking back on 2023, we are once again proud of the many successful and interesting projects and teaching activities conducted by the people of Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine. This report highlights some of these projects.
As in previous years, the 2023 ISPM annual report shows the very broad thematic range of topics we engage. This diversity is also reflected in the teaching of ISPM lecturers.

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Award

Winner of the Swiss Reproducibility Awards 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.

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Award

Oral presentation awards at the 2024 Swiss Pulmonology Conference

Leonie Schreck received the 1st and Beatriz Guerra Buezo the 2nd 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.

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