SSPH+ Assistant Professorships
In order to create more teaching capacity within the university institutes involved, the SSPH+ will finance nine assistant professorships in the period of 2008 to 2011. The SSPH+ Assistant Professors teach in the different SSPH+ programmes, supervise diploma theses and dissertations, create research opportunities for PhD students and collaborate closely with health economists (if public health specialist) or public health specialists (if health economist). The following SSPH+ Assistant Professors have been nominated:
- Murielle Bochud, Epidemiology and Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases, Université de Lausanne, Homepage
- Stefano Calciolari, Strategic Management and Organisation Development, Università della Svizzera italiana, Homepage
- Simona Grassi, Health Economics / Econometrics, Université de Lausanne (until end of february 2012), Homepage
- Emmanuel Kabengele, Santé et Droits Humains, Université de Genève, Homepage
- Matthias Richter, Social Inequality and Health, Universität Bern (until end of february 2011)
- Martin Röösli, Environmental Epidemiology, Universität Basel, Homepage and CV (PDF)
- Sabine Rohrmann, Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases, Universität Zürich, Homepage
- France Weaver, Socioeconomic inequalities and health, Université de Genève, Homepage
- Marcel Zwahlen, Epidemiology, Universität Bern, CV (PDF) and publications (PDF)
In January 2012, SSPH+ announced four assistant professor positions, for the period from 2013 to 2016, as part of an effort to strengthen certain under-researched public health topics at Swiss universities, (eg, epidemiology and prevention of chronic diseases such as cancer and mental health, organization of health systems, HTA and Social Science Research in Public Health). By mid-May 2012, a total of 21 applications were received. A description of the evaluation process can be found HERE.
ProDoc Public Health
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is funding a ProDoc in Public Health which has been submitted jointly by the directors of the Institutes of Social and Preventive Medicine Basel (lead), Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich and the Swiss Tropical Institute. The following ten research modules were accepted:
| VerantwortlicheR GesuchstellerIn | Universität | Weitere GesuchstellerInnen | Titel |
| Braun-Fahrländer Charlotte | Basel | Schindler Christian, BS | Protective Factors in Asthma and Allergy: the role of farm milk - a potential tool for prevention |
| Daeppen Jean-Bernard | Lausanne | Paccaud Fred, LA; Gmel Gerhard, LA | Understanding Mechanisms of the Effectiveness of Brief Motivational Interventions to Reduce Alkohol Use and Related Consequences in Young Adults |
| Egger Matthias | Bern | Gutzwiller Felix, ZH | Socio-economic position and mortality: Swiss National Cohort |
| Kühni Claudia Elisabeth | Bern | Dümbgen Lutz, BE | Predicting onset and persistence of wheeze in children |
| Probst-Hensch Nicole | Basel | Rochat Thierry, GE; Schindler Christian, BS; Braun-Fahrländer Charlotte, BS | Gene-environment interactions in the Etiology of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD); the SAPALDIA |
| Röösli Martin | Basel | CEFALO: An international case-control study on brain tumours in children and adolescents | |
| Bochud Murielle | Lausanne | Bovet Pascal, LA | Revisiting the role of uric acid on cardiovascular risk using genetic and classical epidemiological approaches |
| Low Minling Nicola | Bern | Heijne Janneke, BE | Epidemiology and Mathematical Modelling for Infectious disease Control (EpideMMIC) |
| Riediker Michael | Lausanne | Ghio Andrew J., USA; Cascio Wayne E., USA; Cassee Flemming R., NL | Health effects of occupational traffic particle exposure |
| Röösli Martin | Basel | Kühni Claudia Elisabeth, BE; Huss Anke, BE | Domestic radon exposure and risk of childhood cancer |
| Keiser Olivia | Bern | Egger Matthias, BE | Scale up of antiretroviral therapy and transmission of HIV in Southern Africa: Mathematical model |
| Kuehni Claudia | Bern | Latzin Philipp, BE | Defining phenotypes and risk factors of chronic non-specific cough in children |
| Vounatsou Penelope | Basel | Utzinger Jürg, BS | Spatio-temporal dynamics, risk factors and burden estimates of neglected tropical diseases |
| Zemp Stutz Elisabeth | Basel | Probst-Hensch Nicole, BS | Incidence and pathways of gender differences in adult asthma |