Zwahlen Marcel, Prof. em., PhD

Emeritus Professor

E-Mail
marcel.zwahlen@unibe.ch
Postal Address
Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern

Field of work

  • Public health epidemiology with a focus on methodological aspects of analysing surveillance and registry data, including the use probabilistic record linkage.
  • Analyses of longitudinal studies including the Swiss National Cohort (SNC), the Swiss HIV Cohort (SHCS) and the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry (SCCR).
  • Cancer studies of various design including systematic reviews on risk factors for cancer and studies on cancer screening especially mammography.
  • Bayesian approaches for quantitative evidence synthesis.

Curriculum Vitae

2025 / 08
retired from the university of Bern

2014
Associate Professor of Epidemiology

2009-2013
Assistant Professor funded by the Swiss School of Public Health during the years 2009-2012

since 2003
Senior Scientist at the ISPM

2000-2002
Head of the Scientific Office and Research Promotion at the Swiss Cancer League, Bern, Switzerland

1988-2000
Epidemiologist in different functions at the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, Bern, Switzerland

1991-1993
Doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public in Baltimore, MD, USA