Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine

Uni Mittelstrasse Bern

The Institute provides undergraduate and postgraduate education and carries out interdisciplinary research in the fields of social and behavioral health, clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, and international and environmental health.

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Profile

  • We see health as a participatory, intersectoral, and transdisciplinary process, which is continuously created via interactions between people and their social and natural environment at the local, regional, national, and global levels.
  • ISPM lecturers provide undergraduate teaching in medicine, pharmacy, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Sciences, and climate sciences at the University of Bern.
  • ISPM engages in the University of Bern PhD and postgraduate course programs and offers 3 CAS.
  • ISPM includes two research platforms and over ten research groups covering areas from child and adolescent health to environmental health, HIV, cancer, and non-communicable diseases, with a strong methodological focus and the development of new methods.

External Partners

Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research; Paraplegieforschung Schweiz; Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN), SwissPedNet, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH); Kantonsärztlicher Dienst Kanton Bern; Gesundheitsdienst der Stadt Bern/Schulärztlicher Dienst

Grants

New grants funded by the SNSF in 2024 (1 Ambizione, 2 mobility grants), SAMW, KLS/KFS (total support close to 2 million CHF)