Institute of Primary Health Care

Uni Mittelstrasse Bern

The Institute is committed to training and promoting the next generation of family doctors, researchers, and teachers in primary care. It generates the academic foundations and prerequisites for modern, integratively networked, and patient-oriented primary care.

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Profile

  • Research in primary health care, epidemiology, public health, and biostatistics
  • Promote evidence-based, high-value, safe, and patient-centered health care
  • Training the next generation of primary care physicians and pharmacists and strengthening the development of primary care
  • Master’s program in Pharmacy since 2020

External Partners

Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands; Department of Medicine & Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF, CA, USA; The Thyroid Studies Collaboration on 5 continents; Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Flinders University Australia, University of Chile, Chile; University of Manitoba, Canada; University of Oxford, UK

Grants

  • STREAM, Discontinuing Statins in Multimorbid Older Adults without Cardiovascular Disease (IICT SNF)
  • ESTxENDS IICT SNSF, Swiss Cancer Research, Tobacco Prevention Found
  • BE-SAFE, Implementing a patient-centered and evidence-based intervention to reduce BEnzodiazepine and sedative hypnotic use to improve patient SAFEty and quality of care (HORIZON Europe)
  • PERSONAL, PolygEnic Risk Score to Optimize primary preveNtion in intermediAte risk popuLation (SNSF)
  • DROPIT, Deprescribing inappropriate proton-pump inhibitors in Swiss primary care settings (IICT, SNSF)
  • SCRIPT, The Safer Cannabis – Research In Pharmacies randomized controlled Trial (SNSF, Tobacco Prevention Fund)
  • OPERAM, European Union‘s HORIZON 2020 & Long Term (SNSF)
  • BATIR, Methylphenidate vs. placebo in detained people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (SNSF)
  • Spark grant for BATIR substudy, improving informed consent in detained people (SNSF)
  • Thyroid Studies Collaboration, SNSF
  • ESPAIR, Primary suicide prevention in vulnerable adolescents, SNSF
  • SP-EU, Social prescription in vulnerable adults (HORIZON Europe)
  • SNSF Ambizione grant “The effects of fully automated closed-loop glucose control and novel therapeutic agents on renal function in type 2 diabetes”
  • New SNSF project awarded: “Evidence synthesis methods to predict personalized treatment effects”
  • The Smarter Medication Review Network, SNSF
  • REACT, Research and Education in Ageing Collaborative Team (ENLIGHT)
  • Prospective international study of dairy and inflammation on cognitive decline (SNSF)