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
02.03.2012 08:00 Should asthmatic mothers nurse their babies?
Research published today by ISPM’s Child and Adolescent Health Group examines the effects of breastfeeding on lung development.[more]
31.01.2012 00:00 Association of Type D personality and cardiovascular mortality revisited
The prognostic importance of personality in coronary heart disease was overestimated in the earlier studies[more]
25.01.2012 12:02 Continuity and change at the IJPH
Thomas Abel steps down as Editor-in-Chief but the editorial office remains at ISPM.[more]
Seminars
16.02.2012 16:00HIV Prevention: will antiretroviral therapy provide the ultimate solution?
Referent: Prof. Pietro Vernazza (Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Hygiene, Cantonal...
15.03.2012 16:00EXTRASEMINAR: Second Malignant Neoplasms in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Referent: Dr. Paul Nathan, Associate Professor (University of Toronto) Datum: Donnerstag,...
22.03.2012 16:00Tabaklobby und Kinderfänger
Referent: PD Dr. med. Jürg Barben (Ostschweizer Kinderspital, St. Gallen) Datum: Donnerstag,...
Research Meetings
27.02.2012 12:30Immunodeficiency at the start of ART: Global view
Referent: Matthias Egger (ISPM Bern); Location: Seminarraum, Finkenhubelweg 11
05.03.2012 12:30Separating the effects of age, time period and cohort: An example from the Swiss HIV Cohort
Referent: Franziska Schöni-Affolter (ISPM Bern); Location: Seminarraum, Finkenhubelweg 11
12.03.2012 12:30Krebs als Kind – die langfristige Perspektive (Probevortrag)
Referent: Stefan Essig (ISPM Bern); Location: Seminarraum, Finkenhubelweg 11
