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
Group members
- Name / Titel
- Staff
- Name / Titel
- Egger Matthias, Prof. Dr. med., MSc FFPH DTM&H
- Funktion
- Head of Research Group
- matthias.egger@ispm.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 35 01
- Name / Titel
- Schmidlin Kurt, Dr. med. dent., MPH
- Funktion
- Senior Research Fellow
- kurt.schmidlin@ispm.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 36 73
- Name / Titel
- Whitesell Skrivankova Veronika, PhD
- Funktion
- Statistician
- veronika.skrivankova@ispm.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 33 82
- Name / Titel
- Spoerri Adrian, PhD, MPH
- Funktion
- Head of Research Group
- adrian.spoerri@ispm.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 35 50
- Name / Titel
- Steck Nicole, PhD
- Funktion
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- nicole.steck@ispm.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 55 76
- Name / Titel
- Zwahlen Marcel, Prof., PhD
- Funktion
- Deputy Director
- marcel.zwahlen@ispm.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 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