Swiss School of Public Health
A Foundation of Swiss Universities

SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus

The hub of inter-university high quality SSPH+ PhD courses, trainings, and events

All PhD students supervised by a SSPH+ Faculty member are welcome in the Graduate Campus to benefit from its offers and opportunities to strengthen their academic skills, competencies, career paths and networks.

PhD students enrolled in the SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus have cost-free access to its PhD courses (apart from a processing fee of 30 CHF per course), and can attend courses offered by the seasonal SSPH+ schools (e.g. the Spring School in Geneva and the Summer School in Lugano) and other partners at reduced fees.

The SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus provides PhD students with:

State-of-the art training in methods and topical public health issues
Broad access to the inter-university multidisciplinary SSPH+ research and teaching faculty
Study Recommendations for what constitutes a high quality PhD track in public health sciences
SSPH+ Certificate in Public Health
Unique networking opportunities with other PhD students and SSPH+ junior and senior scientists all across Switzerland

No additional requirements for enrollment in terms of ECTS, publications, meetings etc. apart from the ones of your home university.

Eligibility Criteria

The primary supervisor of the PhD student must be a SSPH+ Faculty member
PhD students must be formally registered and approved as a PhD student in one of the SSPH+ Foundation partner universities

PhD students who meet these conditions are welcome to apply for the SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus.

Academic Board

The SSPH+ Academic Board sets the priorities and is responsible for the content and quality of courses offered in the Graduate Campus.

Access to the SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus Platform

SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus (IGC)
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Testimonials about the SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus (IGC)

Testimonials from IGC alumni about the IGC

Testimonials from participants about IGC courses

Initiation of new PhD Courses

Courses of the IGC are initiated and supported by the Academic Board of the IGC.

All SSPH+ Faculty Members are invited to suggest topics for new courses to the Academic Board (please send to IGC manager: awalser@ssphplus).

If selected, the Academic Board will start a call inviting all SSPH+ Faculty Members to submit topic-specific course proposals.

The Academic Board evaluates the proposals and decides on the implementation.

Template for a course proposal

General information

Contact

Ann Walser, Lic. phil.
Manager Inter-university Graduate Campus
University Fribourg
Rte des Arsenaux 41
1700 Fribourg

awalser@ssphplus.ch
anna.walserbeglinger@unifr.ch

Check our Course Program 2023!

Registration for Courses 2023 is here.

New Courses in the IGC Course Program 2023:

Causal inference for population health sciences
Epidemiological concepts, principals, and methods: A practice-oriented introduction
Epidemiological data analysis strategy