Welcome to ISPM
The Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern provides under-graduate and post-graduate education and carries out research in a range of disciplines relevant to public health. Research groups cut across divisions, facilitating an interdisciplinary approach to research in the fields of social and behavioural health, clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, and international and environmental health.
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News
13.07.2010 10:12Child sexual abuse common worldwide
ISPM researchers have found that about one in eight girls and one in fifteen boys had experienced...
28.05.2010 17:27Three new PhDs awarded
Congratulations to three colleagues, who recently received their PhD in Epidemiology and...
19.05.2010 11:54Psychological distress in adult childhood cancer survivors: the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study
This is the first paper of the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivors Study addressing psychological...
Seminars
26.08.2010 16:00A cohort study in Germany of childhood cancer incidence after postnatal diagnostic x-ray exposure
Referentin: Prof. Maria Blettner (IMBEI an der Universität...
02.09.2010 16:00Social reward and health – a sociological contribution to epidemiology
Referent: Prof. Johannes Siegrist (Dept. of Medical Sociology, University of...
28.10.2010 16:00Prevention & health promotion as applied to young people: what evidence do we have?
Referent: Prof. Pierre-André Michaud (Unité multidisciplinaire de santé des...
Research Meetings
18.10.2010 12:30From infection to disease, a neglected process: the exemple of malaria in an endemic area in west Africa
Referent: T. Szeless, MD
Location: Seminarraum 1. Stock, Finkenhubelweg 11
29.11.2010 12:30Atherosclerosis and ambient air pollution – methodological challenges and current state
Referent: Prof. Nino Künzli (Vizedirektor, Swiss TPH)
Location: Seminarraum, 1. Floor,...
