Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

Swiss National Cohort

Group leaders: Dr. Adrian Spörri-Fahrni, Prof. Dr. Marcel Zwahlen

The Swiss National Cohort SNC (www.swissnationalcohort.ch) is a multipurpose research platform and a longitudinal study of the whole resident Swiss population. The core of the cohortis the linkage of individual records of the 1990 census with records of the 2000 census. Additionally records were linked to either an emigration or death record. Currently the SNC has a follow-up from 1991 up to the end of 2008. The SNC is funded by the SNF.

The Swiss National Cohort SNC has two main aims:

to provide a multipurpose research platform for interested researcher
to conduct projects in the area of social, spatial and environmental epidemiology

Group members

Egger Matthias, Prof. Dr. med., MSc FFPH DTM&H

Name / Titel: Egger Matthias, Prof. Dr. med., MSc FFPH DTM&H
Funktion: Head of Research Group
Mail: matthias.egger@unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 35 01

Name / Titel: Schmidlin Kurt, Dr. med. dent., MPH
Funktion: Senior Research Fellow
Mail: kurt.schmidlin@unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 68 51

Name / Titel: Whitesell Skrivankova Veronika, PhD
Funktion: Research Fellow, Statistician
Mail: veronika.skrivankova@unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 33 82

Name / Titel: Spörri Adrian, PhD, MPH
Funktion: Co-Head SwissRDL
Mail: adrian.spoerri@unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 35 50

Name / Titel: Steck Nicole, PhD
Funktion: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mail: nicole.steck@unibe.ch

Name / Titel: Zwahlen Marcel, Prof., PhD
Funktion: Director a.i.
Mail: marcel.zwahlen@unibe.ch

Phone: +41 31 684 35 54

External collaborator:

Fabio Valeri
Matthias Bopp, Zürich
Felix Gutzwiller, Zürich
Nino Künzli, Basel
Michel Oris, Geneve
Fred Paccaud, Lausanne

Ongoing Projects

Neighbourhood index of socio–economic position and its association with mortality
Radoslav Panczak

Bias due to unlinked deaths and changes in International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
Kurt Schmidlin

Cancer a disease of aging Part 1: Trends in older adult cancer mortality in Switzerland 1991 – 2008 results from the Swiss National Cohort (SNC)
Kerri Clough-Gorr

Health and Lifestyle Factors Associated with Cancer Mortality in Older Adults in Switzerland
Kerri Clough-Gorr

Homicide - suicide events in Swiss households between 1991 and 2007
Marcel Zwahlen

Gini and mortality - The Swiss paradox
Adrian Spoerri

Durkheim revisited: A multi-level analysis of religion and suicide in Switzerland
Adrian Spoerri

Completed Projects

Please find the publication list on the SNC website: SNC publications