Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 30/09/2026Workshop: Strengthening research through patient-partnerships – An innovative two-day workshop focusing on strengthening research through patient-partnerships took place at ISPM. bit.ly/4z7dgXC 001
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 01/07/2026Poster presentation award at the 9th World Bronchiectasis Conference – Nena Karavasiloglou received a poster presentation award at the 9th World Bronchiectasis Conference 2026, which took place in Hannover in June 2026. bit.ly/4v7vXbm 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 30/06/2026Two ISPM researchers Nicola Low and Annika Frahsa featured in UniFOKUS – The June issue of UniFOKUS magazine is dedicated to the question "What do we really need?", exploring why research should not be considered a "luxury" and, conversely, why health risks becoming one... bit.ly/3QHWMER 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 10/06/2026ISPM researchers featured in the Faculty of Medicine Annual Report 2025: Angèle Gayet-Ageron, Ana Vicedo Cabrera and Myrofora Goutaki are recognised for their contributions to research, leadership and academic development. bit.ly/3PWdDDz 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 01/06/202650th anniversary Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry – To celebrate our 50th anniversary, a scientific symposium: «50 Years of Childhood Cancer Registration: Past, Present, and Future», will be held on August 21–22, 2026, in Bern. bit.ly/4dXR8G4 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 01/06/2026New study on lung health in young cancer survivors funded by the Palatin Foundation – Christina Schindera and Masa Zarkovic from ISPM Bern have been awarded funding from the Palatin Foundation to study how pulmonary health evolves in children and adolescents after cancer treatment. bit.ly/4dFS96W 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 27/05/2026Venia docendi – Fabiën Belle and Grit Sommer received their Venia docendi/Privat-docent/habilitation in Clinical Epidemiology. bit.ly/4tZTKt0 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 20/05/2026ARRIVE-Check: University of Bern-led project selected for CRS Seed Grant funding – The University of Bern-led project ARRIVE-Check is among four interdisciplinary projects selected for funding in the first CRS Seed Grant call by the Center for Research Synthesis. bit.ly/4fyEPSZ 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 12/05/2026SNSF Agora grant: A Public Dialogue on Rare Disease Research in Switzerland – Claudia Kuehni (main applicant) and Myrofora Goutaki (co-applicant) from ISPM Bern received a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Agora grant to promote a public dialogue on Rare Disease Research. bit.ly/4wnPHJB 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 11/05/2026Eva Maria Hodel receives the venia docendi – We are delighted to announce that Eva Maria Hodel has been awarded the venia docendi (habilitation) for her research in epidemiology and public health. bit.ly/4366vHn 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 20/03/2026David Schwappach honored with Patient Safety Leadership Award – The Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) is proud to announce that Professor David Schwappach has been awarded the Robert L. Wears Patient Safety Leadership Award in February 2026. bit.ly/4lD6nHQ 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 10/02/2026uniAKTUELL: Interview with BEready Project Manager Eva Maria Hodel – After 18 intensive months, enrollment for the 'Bern, get ready' (BEready) study has been completed. This globally unique collection of data on infectious diseases in humans and pets is intended to help... bit.ly/3O4L2up 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 06/02/2026ISPM participation in NCCR on Climate Extremes and Society – Prof. Ana Vicedo Cabrera and the Climate Epidemiology and Public Health research group participate in the new National Centre of Competence in Research on «Climate Extremes and Society» in highlighting the human health... bit.ly/4bErA1m 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 02/02/2026uniAKTUELL: Interview with ISPM Director – Angèle Gayet-Ageron, Director of the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), explains why sex and gender need to be systematically taken into account in medical research. bit.ly/4qUJodt 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 19/12/2025Prize for Best Poster in Clinical Studies – Anna Lange has been awarded the Prize for Best Poster in Clinical Studies at the Day of Clinical Research 2025 (DCR), organized by the Clinical Trials Unit (CTU). bit.ly/3KZXGcW 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 16/12/2025Swiss National MD-PhD Fellowship granted to ISPM researcher – Severin Fankhauser, PhD student at ISPM Bern, has been awarded a Swiss National MD-PhD Fellowship by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMW). The national fellowship supports talented young physicians in pursuing... bit.ly/4oTmAbV 011
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 10/12/2025Oral Presentation Prize at the Kinderklinik Research Day 2025 – Tiara Greber received the prize for the best oral presentation on clinical research at the Kinderklinik Research Day 2025 organised by the Kinderklinik of the University Hospital Bern. bit.ly/48MR89x 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 17/11/2025Highly Cited Researchers – 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». bit.ly/47YXRwp 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 03/10/2025Keynote talk and new publication on participatory approaches in community health research – 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» bit.ly/42WdenB 011
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 30/09/2025SNSF grant: nutritional status in childhood cancer patients and survivors – Fabiën Belle (Principal Investigator) and Christina Schindera (Principal Investigator) have received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation for their project. bit.ly/48D1qdF 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 30/09/2025Ewald Weibel Award for Lung Research on rare disease primary ciliary dyskinesia – PD Dr Myrofora Goutaki (ISPM) and PD Dr Loretta Müller (University Children’s hospital) will receive the Ewald Weibel Award 2025 for their outstanding research in the field of Lung and Respiration... bit.ly/4pLwBtl 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 30/09/2025Local research with a global perspective – Science knows no boundaries, yet it is often rooted in local communities. The BEready cohort study is an example from Bern that illustrates this point, as featured in the latest edition of uniFOKUS. bit.ly/3InzvE9 020
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 12/09/2025Grippenet.ch hosted by ISPM – Grippenet.ch a participatory surveillance system presented at the «Nacht der Forschung». Grippenet.ch is a participatory surveillance system that monitors influenza-like illnesses (ILIs) in Switzerland to improve the understanding of infection... bit.ly/4gjJ6Z7 120
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 02/09/2025Swiss Epidemiology Winter School 2026: Open registration – The 2026 Winter School features a diverse range of engaging courses led by experienced teachers. Whether you want to strengthen your methodological skills or advance your knowledge in... bit.ly/4meVACJ 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 15/08/2025ISPM Survey in 13 Languages Seeks Out Perceptions on Smoking Paths – A new national survey on Perspectives and Attitudes Towards Health and Smoking (PATHS) is reaching underrepresented people across Switzerland in 13 different languages... bit.ly/4lA7pCZ 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 18/07/2025ISPM will host a new SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellow – Hicham Achebak, a postdoctoral researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), has been awarded the highly competitive SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship (SPF) on his project TEMPO... bit.ly/4kMH2t0 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 15/07/2025Christina Schindera receives the venia docendi – We are delighted to announce that Christina Schindera has been awarded the venia docendi (habilitation) for her research on cardiovascular health in survivors of childhood cancer. bit.ly/4o3eEpA 020
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 14/07/2025Participatory study on health behaviours in childhood cancer survivors – Claudia Kuehni and Carina Nigg received funding from Swiss Cancer Research to investigate and improve health behaviours among long-term survivors of childhood cancer. bit.ly/4nzKUjJ 020
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 07/07/2025Grant Swiss Cancer Research – Fabiën Belle (Principal Investigator) and Christina Schindera (Co-Applicant) have received funding from Swiss Cancer Research for their project “Trajectories of Growth and Weight of Childhood Cancer Patients: From Birth to Late Adulthood”. bit.ly/46fw0cr 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 13/06/2025SwissPedNet NextGen Research Podcast Session prize at the paediatrics Switzerland 2025 annual congress Franco Romero, PhD student at ISPM Bern, won the Best Podcast-Format Research bit.ly/3HxOrPc 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 19/05/2025Electronic Medical Record usability and patient safety – through the eyes of physicians – Despite widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs), concerns persist regarding their usability and implications for patient safety. bit.ly/4dpg7BF 031
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 04/03/2025Getting Bern ready for future pandemics – Researchers at the Multidisciplinary Centre for Infectious Diseases (MCID) are preparing the canton of Bern for future pandemics with the BEready long-term study. bit.ly/41lValj 042
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 04/03/2025Research Findings on Sports Participation and Parenthood in the Media Spotlight – Research results by Lars Lenze, a member of the research group on community health and health care systems, were recently featured in newspapers from the Tamedia group (Tagesanzeiger, Berner Zeitung). bit.ly/3D6IW8i 011
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 18/02/2025New factsheet published on vulnerability across the lifecourse and its relevance for health equity in health promotion and prevention – Annika Frahsa and her research group on community health and health care systems research had a mandate by Health Promotion Switzerland... bit.ly/3QnP12Y 022
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 18/02/2025Overcoming Barriers: Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera's Journey in Climate Health Research – Environmental epidemiologist Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera discusses the challenges she faced as a young foreign woman in academia and her dedication to studying the health impacts of climate change. bit.ly/41kIgFs 021
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 04/02/2025First Prize of the German Olympic Sports Confederation’s Science Award – Carina Nigg receives the first prize of the Science Award 2023/2024 of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund; DOSB) in Frankfurt. bit.ly/3WLymdq 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 29/01/2025A new SNSF Ambizione project on droughts and health at ISPM – Coral Salvador, a postdoc researcher working at the University of Vigo, has been awarded a SNSF Ambizione on her project IGIA-SETH (unravelInG the ImpActs of droughtS on human hEalTH). The project will start in July 2025... bit.ly/40xVqxj 010
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 20/12/2024SIRIS annual report 2024 – The SIRIS Foundation and the ANQ have once again published the University of Bern's annual analyses of the SIRIS hip and knee implant registry. The evaluations are based on almost 458,600 primary hip and knee implantations and around 26,100 follow-up... bit.ly/3P5OORr 000
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 20/12/2024New Professor in Climate Impact and Public Health in the Built Environment appointed – Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera, the current head of the climate change and health team at ISPM, has been recently appointed by the Executive Board of the University of Bern as Professor in Climate Impact... bit.ly/4fmOcS6 020
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) @ispm.unibe.ch · 20/12/2024Increased Risk of Second Tumors Among Cancer Survivors in Switzerland – Cancer survivors face a heightened risk of developing second tumors, according to the first-ever national cancer report, with major contributions from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry (KiKR). bit.ly/4iuZ8zL 000
