
Zwahlen Marcel, Prof., PhD
Deputy Director
- Phone
- +41 31 631 35 54
- marcel.zwahlen@ispm.unibe.ch
- Office
- 375
- 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
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