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 an 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, the Summer School in Lugano and the Winter School in Wengen) 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
Guidelines for what constitutes a high quality PhD track in public health sciences
Unique networking opportunities with other PhD students and SSPH+ junior and senior scientists all across Switzerland.
No additional requirements in terms of ECTS, publications etc. apart from the ones of your home university

Eligibility Criteria

The primary supervisor of the PhD student must be an 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.