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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Award
Two of our researchers at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) and Berner Institut für Hausarztmedizin (BIHAM)— Georgia Salanti and Orestis Efthimiou — have been recognised by Clarivate Analytics as «Highly Cited Researchers», an honour awarded to scientists whose publications rank among the top 1 % by citations in their field. ISPM/BIHAM host two out of a total of seven highly cited researchers at the University of Bern.
News, 14.11.2025
December 4, 2025
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Prof. Manuel Franco, BC3 Basque Centre For Climate Change, Spain
The Bern Lectures in Health Science
Keynote
At the DGSMP Annual Conference 2025 in Berlin, hosted by Charite and Berlin School of Public Health, Annika Frahsa delivered a keynote on «Rethinking Participation», presenting new methodological perspectives and a conceptual model for strengthening participatory health research. Her related scoping review has just been published in Social Science & Medicine.
News, 03.10.2025
SNSF grant
Fabiën Belle (Principal Investigator) and Christina Schindera (Principal Investigator) have received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation for their project “Underweight, overweight, and linear growth of childhood cancer patients”.
News, 30.09.2025
The University of Bern’s Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) contributes to study programs in Human Medicine (Bachelor’s and Master’s) and Biomedical Sciences (Master’s).
The ISPM consists of 14 research groups that engage in a broad range of topics related to health and disease across the lifespan, in communities, in the environment, and data science.
The ISPM consists of 14 research groups that engage in a broad range of topics.
ISPM Bern provides a wide range of postgraduate education to train students to become excellent public health researchers and to work as public health specialists.
ISPM Bern provides a wide range of postgraduate education.
ISPM is dedicated to preserving and improving the health of the population – from local to planetary levels by educating students, professionals, and the public, conducting high-quality researchc putting research results into practice.
ISPM is dedicated to preserving and improving the health of the population – from local to planetary levels.
Mittelstrasse 43 3012 Bern
Phone: +41 31 684 35 11 info.ispm@unibe.ch
