Alumni of the former SSPH+ PhD Program in Public Health (PPH) and the new SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus (IGC) with certificate

2024

• Babington-Ashaye, Awa (IGC)
  Tackling Disease Education Gaps of People with Haemophilia and Obligate Carriers in Sub-Saharan Africa through the Design and Implementation of an Original Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conversational Agent
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Antoine Geissbühler)

• Bytyci Katanolli, Ariana (IGC)
  The Longitudinal Effects of Health System Strengthening Interventions on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases in Kosovo: a Cohort Approach
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch

• Cheng, Mengling (IGC)
  Socioeconomic Determinants and Evolution of Health over the Later Life Course: Longitudinal Evidence from China, the U.S., and Europe
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Dario Spini)

• Cottler-Casanova, Sara (IGC)
  Measuring Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Switzerland: From Indirect Prevalence Estimates to Swiss University Hospital Data
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Elisabeth Zemp-Stutz

• Dhokotera, Tafadzwa Gladys (IGC)
  Leveraging Real World Data to understand the Epidemiology of Cervical Cancer in Women living with HIV in South Africa
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Julia Bohlius)

• Firima, Emmanuel Bari-mm-me (IGC)
  Improving Community-based Care for Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension in Lesotho
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Niklaus Labhardt)

• Gonzalez, Flor Lucia (IGC)
  Towards improved Knowledge and Optimization of Health Care for Non-communicable Diseases in Lesotho
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nikaus Labhardt)

• Hamza, Tasnim (IGC)
  Flexible Generic Framework for Evidence Synthesis in Health Technology Assessment
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Giorgia Salanti)

• Hierink, Fleur (IGC)
  The Winding Road to Health: Geographic Accessibility Modelling to Support Health System Optimization and Disease Estimates in Low- and Middle-income Countries.
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicolas Ray)

• Lazo Porras, Maria de los Angeles (IGC)
  Applied Methods to Promote Sustainability and Scalability of Complex Interventions
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. David Beran)

• Lepere, Philippe (IGC)
  Achieving the HIV Treatment Targets in the Era of Digital Health: the Promises and Challenges of mHealth
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor : Prof. Alexandra Calmy)

• Luini, Cecilia (IGC)
  Three Essays on Health Systems Response to Epidemiologic Crises and Trends
  Università della Svizzera italiana
  (Supervisors : Prof. Marco Meneguzzo, Prof. Stefano Calciolari)

• Muratalieva, Elvira (IGC)
  Global Guidelines to Prevent and Manage Non-communicable Diseases and Their Influence to Strengthen the Primary Health Care System in Kyrgyzstan
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor : Prof. Mathieu Nendaz)

• Oña Macias, Ana Lucia (IGC)
  The Health-income Gap: To what Extent does Income Explain Health Disparities in People with Spinal Cord Injury?
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Diana Pacheco Barzallo)

• Onovo, Amobi (IGC)
  Geographical Disparities in HIV Seroprevalence and Community-led Index Partner Testing Services among Key Population and their Partners Living with HIV in Nigeria
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Olivia Keiser)

• Ouaijan, Krystel (IGC)
  Prevalence of Malnutrition in Lebanese Hospitals, Recognition and Impact on Right to Health
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Emmanuel Kabengele)

• Pannen, Sarah Theresa (IGC)
  Development and Validation of a Semiquantitative Web-Based Food Frequency Questionnaire Optimized for Dietary Assessment of Adults in Switzerland
  University Zürich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabine Rohrmann)

• Quiroga Gutierrez, Ana (IGC)
  Health Insurance Literacy and Decision Support: Empowering Informed Choices in Switzerland
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Stefan Boes)

• Sadeghimehr, Maryam (IGC)
  Comprehensive Disease Models and Cost-effectiveness Studies of Hepatitis C virus
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Olivia Keiser, Dr Janne Estill)

• Saito, Hiroki (IGC)
  Promotion of Hand Hygiene and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) in Japan through Implementation of the WHO Guideline on Core Components of IPC Programmes
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Didier Pittet)

• Salvador, Dante (IGC)
  Diabetes mellitus: associations with atherosclerosis, myocardial fibrosis, and implications for heart failure
  University Bern
  (Supervisors : Prof. Muka Taulant, Dr. Bano Arjola)

• Sarki, Mahesh (IGC)
  Understanding Cascade Testing and Health Behaviors in Families with Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer or Lynch Syndrome-Associated Variants: The Swiss CASCADE Cohort
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Maria Katapodi)

• Schläpfer, Sonja (IGC)
  Tech-Enhanced Self-Care: Behavior Change in the Digital Health Era
  University Zürich
  (Supervisor : PD Dr. phil. Jürgen Barth)

• Shoman, Yara (IGC)
  Burnout: Definition, Assessment and Causal Deteminants
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisor : Prof. Irina Guseva Canu)

• Sieber, Chloé (IGC)
  Mobile Health Tool Implementation for Multiple Sclerosis in Real World Settings: Opportunities and Challenges
  University Zürich
  (Supervisor : Prof. Viktor von Wyl)

• Stojanov, Thomas (IGC)
  Clinical Prediction Models in Orthopaedics, from Data Collection to Model Development and Validation
  University Basel
  (Supervisor : Prof. Andreas Marc Müller)

• Thawer, Sumaiyya Gulamraza (IGC)
  The Use of Routine Health Facility Data for Malaria Risk Stratification in Mainland Tanzania
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Dr Emilie Pothin, Prof. Christian Lengeler)

• Tušl, Martin (IGC)
  Examining the Role of Needs-Based Crafting in Promoting Employee Positive Health Development During and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: A Salutogenic Approach.
  University Zürich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Georg Bauer)

2023

• Baumann, Aron (PPH)
  Evidence Use, Capacity, and Perspectives in Policymaking about Public Health and Health Systems: an Investigation with a Focus on Health Administrations and Health Services in Switzerland
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kaspar Wyss)

• Bauwens, Jorgen (IGC)
  Real-life paediatric immunisation practices and the safety of vaccine co-administrations in children
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Jan Bonhoeffer)

• Bychkovska, Olena (IGC)
  Health Systems for Persons with Spinal Cord Injury
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Armin Gemperli)

• Das, Debashish (IGC)
  Assessment of tools to improve microscopy for the detection of Plasmodium infections in research contexts
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. François Chappuis)

• De Pretto - Lazarova, Angela (PPH)
  Quality in Clinical Trials - A Resource-Limited Settings Perspective
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Christian Burri)

• Favez, Lauriane (IGC)
  Quality indicators and quality improvement processes in Swiss nursing homes: A multi-study research project.
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Franziska Zúñiga

• Garbazza, Corrado (PPH)
  Sleep and chronotype during pregnancy, and the bright light treatment of perinatal depression
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch)

• Gastens, Viktoria (IGC)
  Personalized preventive care and life expectancy among older multimorbid adults
  University Bern
  (Supervisors: Prof. Nicolas Rodondi, Prof. Arnaud Chiolero)

• Ilic, Anica (IGC)
  Understanding Health Information Needs and Behaviors in the Context of Childhood Cancer and COVID-19
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof Dr. Gisela Michel)

• Kieselbach, Berit (IGC)
  Childhood exposure to intimate partner violence - a global public health burden
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Perneger)

• Kowalska, Malwina (IGC)
  Corneal Cross-Linking (CXL) as Treatment for Infectious Keratitis
  University Zürich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Paul Torgerson)

• Legay, Constance (IGC)
  Dietary risk and protective factors of kidney stone formers in Swittzerland
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Murielle Bochud)

• Mallet, Maria Christina (IGC)
  Epidemiology of childhood cough in Switzerland
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)

• Martínez González, Nahara (IGC)
  Antibiotic prescribing in Swiss primary care patterns, time trends, determinants, prescribing behaviour, and the role of point of care testing
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Boes)

• Marxer, Carole (PPH)
  A series of observational studies focusing on different real world data sources to study health aspects during pregnancy
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph R. Meier, Dr. Julia Spöndlin)

• Mattle, Michèle (PPH)
  Dance-Based Mind-Motor Activities to Prevent Falls and Prevalence of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Patterns in Generally Healthy Older Adults
  University Zürich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. med. Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari)

• Napierala, Christoph (IGC)
  Diagnosis Related Groups and the Provision of Hospital Services – Four Essays in the Context of a Policy Intervention in the Swiss Healthcare System
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Stefan Boes)

• Otth, Maria (PPH)
  Pulmonary disease, its risk factors and necessity for long-term follow-up care in childhood cancer survivors
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)

• Peters, Alexandra (IGC)
  Assessment of the role of healthcare environmental hygiene in patient safety and development of a facility-level self-assessment tool
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Didier Pittet)

• Polonsky, Jonathan (IGC)
  Outbreak analytics to inform real-time public health surveillance and response in humanitarian settings
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Laurent Kaiser)

• Raguindin, Peter Francis (IGC)
  Determinants of cardiometabolic health in spinal cord injury
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Taulant Muka)

• Salikhanov, Islam (IGC)
  Palliative care for cancer patients in resource-limited settings of Kazakhstan: implications for cost-effectiveness and health policy
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Maria Katapodi)
  

• Saucy, Apolline (PPH)
  Acute cardiovascular mortality in communities surrounding an international airport: triggering effects of aircraft noise, temperature, and air pollution
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Röösli)

• von Grünigen, Sandrine (IGC)
  Handling of cytotoxic drugs and related waste in low and middle-income countries: A toolkit to promote safe handling practices.
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Antoine Geissbühler)

• Zürcher, Kathrin (IGC)
  Tuberculosis among people living with and without HIV in lower-income countries: Transmission, Resistance, Mortality
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Lukas Fenner)

2022

• Aegerter, Andrea (IGC)
  Neck pain and work productivity in office workers: Effectiveness of a multi-component intervention
  University Zürich
  (Supervisors: Prof. Oliver Distler, Prof. Markus Melloh)

• Ahn Grimm, Pauline Yongeun (IGC)
  Interrogating resilience of health systems
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof Kaspar Wyss)

• Amstutz, Alain (PPH)
  Supporting Lesotho on the way towards the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets: Operational and clinical research addressing HIV/AIDS care inresource-limited settings
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Dr. Niklaus Labhardt)

• Bovio, Nicolas (PPH)
  Occupational cancer in Switzerland
  University of Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Irina Guseva-Canu)

• Brunner, Nina (IGC)
  Treatment seeking and case management for suspected severe malaria in the context of implementing rectal artesunate
  University Basel
  (Supervisor:

• Chimbetete, Cleophas (PPH)
  HIV drug resistance and third line treatment outcomes in patients failing Protease Inhibitor based second-line antiretroviral therapy in Zimbabwe
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Olivia Keiser)

• de Ridder, David (IGC)
  Geospatial Approaches For Precision Public Health
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Idris Guessous)

• Ettlin, Lea (IGC)
  Conservative management of knee osteoarthritis in Switzerland
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Dr, Karin Niedermann)

• Folly, Christophe (PPH)
  Modelling exposure to background ionizing radiation in Switzerland
  University Bern
  (Supervisors: PD Dr. Ben Spycher, Prof. Reinhard Furrer)

• Galjour, Joshua, (IGC)
  Chronic political instability and HIV/AIDS response in Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2015: The intersections of politics and epidemiology
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Emmanuel Kabengele Mpinga)

• Gaudet-Blavignac, Christophe (IGC)
  HUBBLE – Health Bigdata in the Lemanic Region
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Christian Lovis)

• Gonzalez Jaramillo, Valentina (PPH)
  End-of-life decisions in patients with heart failure
  University Bern
  (Supervisors: Prof. Steffen Eychmüller, PD Dr. Lukas Hunziker)

• Hella, Jerry (IGC)
  Understanding the Epidemiology and Transmission of Tuberculosis among Adults in Rural and Urban Tanzania
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Lukas Fenner)

• Hersche, Ruth (IGC)
  Patient education in persons with diseases-related fatigue
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor : Prof. Gisela Michel)

• Hodel Jsabel (IGC)
  Understanding functioning and its complexity in persons with spinal cord injury as a first step towards corresponding prediction modelling
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisors : Prof. Gerold Stucki/Prof. Dr. Birgit Prodinger)

• Huang, Jianan (IGC)
  Service Utilization within Informal Care: Supporting Family Caregivers for Persons with Spinal Cord Injury in Switzerland
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Armin Gemperli)

• Kaboré, Lassané (PPH)
  University Geneva
  Impact of the 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine on Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage, all-cause clinical pneumonia, and invasive pneumococcal disease in Burkina Faso
  (Supervisor: Prof. Alain Gervaix)

• Kerksieick, Philipp (PPH)
  University Zürich
  Crafting Work, Nonwork and the Boundary Between Them: Individual Strategies for Employee Health and Well-Being
  (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Georg F. Bauer)

• König, Christa (IGC)
  Fever in neutropenia in children undergoing chemotherapy for cancer
  University Bern
  (Supervisors : Prof. Roland Ammann, Prof. Claudia Kuehni)

• Leuenberger, Andrea (PPH)
  Associations between natural resource extraction projects and social determinants of health in Africa
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Dr. Mirko Winkler, Prof. Jürg Utzinger)

• Lisibach, Angela (PPH)
  Development and Validation of Automatic Tools to Improve Adverse Drug Event Management in Hospitalised Older Patients
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Chantal Csajka)

• Lisman-Broetje, Sylvia (PPH)
  Development and evaluation of an online-based team development intervention to improve occupational health outcomes in nurses
  University Zürich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Georg Bauer)

• Mannamplackal, Santhosh (IGC)
  Essays on healthcare networks: from theory to practice through the Swiss Learning Health System
  Università della Svizzera Italiana
  (Supervisors: Prof. Marco Meneguzzo, Prof. Luca Crivelli, Prof. Stefano Calciolari, Prof. G. Stucki)

• Mc Cord, Kimberly (PPH)
  The Use of Routinely Collected Data in Clinical Trial Research
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Dr. Lars Hemkens)

• Mugglin, Catrina (PPH)
  Access to treatment and treatment outcomes among elderly HIV-infected patients in Malawi
  University Bern
  (Supervisors: PD Dr. Olivia Keiser, Prof. Matthias Egger)

• Mwangi, Kibachio Joseph (IGC)
  Reframing Non-Communicable Diseases and Injuries for equity in limited resource settings in the context of Universal Health Coverage in Kenya
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Idris Guessous)

• Nittas, Vasileios (PPH)
  Digital Health: Using Electronic Patient-Generated Health Data to Facilitate Patient-Centered Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
  University Zürich
  (Supervisors: Prof. Milo Puhan, PD Dr. Margot Mütsch)

• Ochoa Pereira, Carlos (IGC)
  Snakebite: innovative geospatial approaches to epidemiology, risk, vulnerability, and healthcare accessibility for burden reduction in the Terai region of Nepal
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicolas Ray)

• Özcelik, Ranya (PPH)
  Voluntary veterinary-based and community-based surveillance and their application in human and animal health surveillance in Switzerland
  and Chad
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Salome Dürr)

• Palmeirim, Martha (PPH)
  Improved treatment for the control of soil-transmitted helminthiases : from meta-analysis to clinical trials
  University Basel
  (Supervisor : Prof. Jennifer Keiser)

• Pradyumna, Adithya (IGC)
  Applying health impact assessment to watershed development projects in semi-arid areas in India: identifying prospects for health-sensitive food systems
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Dr. Mirko Winkler, Prof. Jürg Utzinger)

• Runge, Manuela (PPH)
  Mathematical modelling of malaria control interventions to support strategic planning in Tanzania
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Dr. Emilie Pothin, Prof. Christian Lengeler)

• Schwarz, Joëlle (PPH)
  Family Planning in Burundi: Hegemonic Discourse, Reproductive Navigation and Embodied Experiences in a Fragile Context
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Sonja Merten)

• Sharma, Narayan (IGC)
  INVEstigating Safety Tipping points in Swiss hospitals: assessing the causal effect of capacity utilization on in-hospital mortality using routine data (INVEST)
  University Basel
  (Supervisor : Prof. Michael Simon)

• Taghavi, Katayoun (PPH)
  Methods of improving visually based cervical screening in low- and middle income countries
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Julia Bohlius)

• Tran, Hanh Thi Duc (IGC)
  Towards improved detection, prevention and integrated control of scrub typhus in Central Vietnam
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Daniel H. Paris)

• Vavassori, Laura (PPH)
  Dispersal dynamics and surveillance of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) in Switzerland
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Dr. Pie Müller)

• Waespe, Nicolas (PPH)
  Heritable risk factors for health complications in childhood cancer
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kühni)

• Wagner, Aylin (PPH)
  Advancing Quality Indicators for Home Care in Switzerland
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisors: Prof. Armin Gemperli, Prof. Julia Dratva)

• Warembourg, Charlotte (PPH)
  Improving control strategies of canine zoonotic diseases: The role of free-roaming dog ecology
  University Bern
  (Supervisors: Prof Gertraud Schüpbach, Prof. Jakob Zinsstag)

• Wipf, Nadja (PPH)
  Development and field-evaluation of vector surveillance tools for identifying arbovirus circulation, mosquito species and insecticide resistance
  University Basel
  (Supervisor : PD Dr. Pie Müller, Prof. Pascal Mäser)

2021

• Anker, Daniela (PPH)
  Blood pressure and frailty in older adults: description and prediction from population-based data
  University Bern
  (Supervisors: PD Dr. Arnaud Chiolero, Prof. Marcel Zwahlen)
• Bänziger, Julia (PPH)
  Psychological long-term consequences for parents of childhood cancer survivors
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Gisela Michel)
• Cerletti, Paco (PPH)
  Assessing multifactorial correlates of health-related quality of life in the general Swiss population
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch)
• Counotte, Michel (PPH)
  Zika virus: causality, open science and risk of emerging infectious diseases
  University Bern
  (Supervisors: Prof. Nicola Low, Prof. Julian Higgins)
• Epure, Adina-Mihaela (PPH)
  Early life determinants of cardiovascular health in children
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisors: PD MER Dr. Arnaud Chiolero, Prof. Nicole Sekarski-Hunkeler)
• Gysin, Stefan (PPH)
  The Roles and Tasks of Nurse Practitioners in Swiss Family Practices
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisors: Prof. Armin Gemperli, Dr. Stefan Essig)
• Harju, Erika (IGC)
  FROM CARE TO CARING: Steps Toward Implementing Psychological Screening to Improve Follow-Up Care for Childhood Cancer Survivors
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gisela Michel)
• Jungo, Katharina Tabea (PPH)
  Optimizing Medication Use in Older Adults with Multimorbidity and Polypharmacy
  University Bern
  (Supervisors: Dr. Sven Streit, Prof. Nicolas Rodondi)
• Karavasiloglou, Nena (PPH)
  Breast cancer in situ: a brief story of non-invasive lesions
  University Zurich
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Sabine Rohrmann)
• Lee, Yew Fong (PPH)
  Innovations in behavioural change and patient safety to improve infection prevention and control– a World Health Organization (WHO) 'Clean care is Safer Care’ Project
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Didier Pittet)
• Lehmann, Anja (PPH)
  Effects of implementing lean management on psychosocial working conditions and employee health in a healthcare setting
  University Zurich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Georg Bauer)
• Lona, Giulia (PPH)
  Prospective association of body mass index, blood pressure and physical activity with vascular health in children: The Sportcheck Follow-up Study
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Prof. Henner Hanssen, Prof. Lukas Zahner)
• Maritz, Roxanne (IGC)
  Strengthening Quality Improvement in Rehabilitation by Standardized Reporting of Functioning Outcomes
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gerold Stucki, Prof. Dr. Birgit Prodinger)
• Mattli, Renato (IGC)
  Scaling up cost-effective physical activity interventions in a culturally diverse setting
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch)
• Mbilo, Céline (PPH)
  Rabies in sub-Sahara Africa: One Health-based surveillance strategy in the Kongo Central province (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and disease transmission in N’Djamena (Chad)
• University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Jakob Zinsstag)
• Ming, Chang (IGC)
  Machine Learning and Personalized Breast Cancer Risk Prediction
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Maria Katapodi)
• Mitter, Vera (PPH)
  Obstetric and perinatal outcomes of women treated for subfertility and children born after in vitro fertilisation
  University Bern
  (Supervisors: Prof. Michael von Wolff, Prof. Marcel Zwahlen)
• Mozún Torrico, Rebeca (PPH)
  Epidemiology of respiratory health in Swiss schoolchildren: symptoms, risk factors and lung function
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Müller Chabloz, Yolanda (PPH)
  Prevention of functional decline in elderly patients in family medicine
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Nicolas Senn)
• Pedersen, Eva Sophie Lunde (PPH)
  Predicting asthma in children
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Perrin, Caroline (IGC)
  Impact assessment of eHealth on maternal and neonatal health outcomes in low resource settings
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Antoine Geissbühler)
• Pestoni, Giulia (PPH)
  Is Your Plate Good for Your Health? Determinants of Dietary Patterns and Their Association with Health Outcomes
  University Zurich
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Sabine Rohrmann)
• Rachamin, Yael (IGC)
  Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases in Swiss General Practice
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof Stefan Boes)
• Tomczyk, Sara (PPH)
  Improving the Quality of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Evidence: An Evaluation of Interventions to Improve Practices and Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections (HAIs)
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Benedetta Allegranzi)
• Ulyte, Agné (PPH)
  Clinical Practice Guidelines and Geographic Variation in Utilization of Health Care Services in Switzerland
  University Zurich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Holger Dressel)
• Wang, Jiancong (PPH)
  Epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections and implementation of infection prevention and control in acute care hospitals in Mainland China
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Stephan Harbarth)
• Wei, Wenjia (PPH)
  Geographic variation in the utilization of health care interventions and the role of clinical recommendations
  University Zurich
  (Supervisors: Prof. Matthias Schwenkglenks, Prof. Holger Dressel)
• Wildisen, Lea Franziska (IGC)
  Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction & Depressive Symptoms - a Perspective Evaluation and Impact of Levothyroxine Treatment
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicolas Rodondi)

2020

• Aya Pastrana, Nathaly (PPH)
  From policies to interventions: Integrating neglected tropical diseases and gender
  to social marketing
  Università della Svizzera Italiana
  (Supervisor: Prof. Suzanne Suggs)
• Blum, Steffen (PPH)
  Epidemiology of and risk factors for atrial fibrillation progression
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Prof. David Conen/ Prof. Stefan Osswald)
• Bold, Bolor (PPH)
  Burden, cost of disease and optimization of clinical practice of human cystic echinococcosis in Mongolia
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Jakob Zinsstag)
• Bucher Della Torre, Sophie (PPH)
  Eating habits of shift workers
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisors: Prof. Brigitta Danuser, Prof. Francesca Amati)
• De Jong, Carmen (PPH)
• Childhood asthma: from referral to long-term outcomes
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Deml, Michael (PPH)
  Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy and Under-Immunization with Childhood and Human Papilloma Virus Vaccines in Switzerland: A Qualitative Study
  University of Basel
  (Supervisors: Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch, Prof. Claudine Burton-Jeangros)
• Ehsan, Annahita (PPH)
  Promoting Health through Community Action in Vaud, Switzerland
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Dario Spini)
• Fischer, Xenia (PPH)
  Tailored multicomponent intervention for remote physical activity promotion in inactive adults
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Lukas Zahner)
• Gallay, Joanna (PPH)
  Antimalarial drug concentrations in the blood: a monitoring tool for evaluating population drug usage in relation to diagnosis and treatment environment
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Prof. Blaise Genton, Prof. Jürg Utzinger)
• Gnassingbe, Afèignindou (PPH)
  Problématique de la lutte contre les faux médicaments au Togo: état des lieux de l’action publique et élaboration de stratégies alternatives
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Antoine Geissbühler)
• Gonsalves, Lianne (PPH)
  Understanding the appeal pf pharmacies as points of contraceptive access for young people in Kenya
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Prof. Jürg Utzinger, Dr. Adriane Martin-Hilber)
• Halbeisen, Florian (PPH)
  Lung Function and Diagnostics in Patients with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Jeong, Ayoung (PPH)
  Elucidation of the role of obesity and air pollution in the asthma etiology in adults
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch)
• Michel, Janet (PPH)
  Towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policy-roll out experience in South Africa: How and why policy-practice gaps come about in a UHC context
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Fabrizio Tediosi)
• Petrovic, Dusan (PPH)
  Lifecourse socioeconomic differentials in healthy ageing
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Murielle Bochud)
• Piaget-Rossel, Romain (PPH)
  Meta-analysis of rare events: the challenge of combining the lack of information
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Patrick Taffé)
• Riesen, Maurane (PPH)
  Human papillomavirus vaccination in Switzerland: impact, uptake and costs
  University Bern
  (Supervisors: PD Dr. Christian L. Althaus, Prof. Nicola Low)
• Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Daniela (PPH)
  Epidemiology and control of malaria in Papua New Guinea: from small-scale heterogenity to large-scale surveillance and targeted response
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Manuel Hetzel)
• Schusselé Filliettaz, Séverine (PPH)
  Interprofessional collaboration and care integration
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux)
• Shih, Chin-Shui (PPH)
  E-cigarettes: Users profile and stakeholder opinion in Taiwan
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. Jean-François Etter)

2019

• Adam, Salome (PPH)
  Cancer Survivorship Aspects of Prostate, Colorectal and Endometrial Cancer
  Survivors in Germany and the Netherlands
  University Zurich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Sabine Rohrmann)
• Al-Gobari, Muaamar (PPH)
  Optimization of sudden cardiac death prevention strategies in heart failure patients
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Bernard Burnand)
• Backes, Claudine (PPH)
  Solar UV Modelling for skin cancer prevention
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisors: Prof. David Vernez, PD Dr. Jean-Luc Bulliard)
• Belle-van Sprundel, Fabiën (PPH)
  Dietary intake and overweight in childhood cancer during treatment and survivorship
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisors: Prof. Murielle Bochud, Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Chatelan, Angéline (PPH)
  Dietary intake and nutritional status in Switzerland: a population perspective
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Murielle Bochud)
• de Mestral Vargas, Carlos (PPH)
  Determinants of diet in the population, and the contribution of diet to socioeconomic inequalities in cardiometabolic disorders in high-income countries
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Pedro-Manuel Marques-Vidal)
• Ewald, Hannah (PPH)
  Meta-epidemiologic consideration of confounding for health care decision making
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Heiner Bucher)
• Gahl, Brigitta (PPH)
  Issues in the perioperative management of patients undergoing cardiac surgery
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Peter Jüni)
• Jurca, Maja (PPH)
  Cough in Childhood: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Prognosis
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kühni)
• Kaufmann, Cornel (PPH)
  Four essays in health economics. An empirical analysis of decision-making in the domain of health and health insurance
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Stefan Boes)
• Khalatbari-Soltani, Saman (PPH)
  Nutritional status in hospitalized patients: prevalence, determinants and impact on hospital stay, mortality, and costs
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisors: Prof. Gerard Waeber, Prof. Pedro Marques-Vidal)
• Konstantinoudis, Garyfallos (PPH)
  Analysis of spatial clustering of childhood cancers
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Ben Spycher)
• Ladanie, Aviv (PPH)
  Epidemiology and characteristics of clinical trials supporting US FDA approval of novel cancer drugs
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Dr. Lars G. Hemkens, Prof. Heiner Bucher)
• Leeger-Aschmann, Claudia (PPH)
  Physical Activity and Fundamental Movement Skills in Three- to Five-Year-Old Children
  University Zürich
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Susi Kriemler)
• Liwanag, Harvy Joy (PPH)
  Analyzing the Effectiveness of Decentralization in Improving the Health Sector with a Focus on the Philippines
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Kaspar Wyss)
• Owusu, Henry Frempong (PPH)
  Insecticide resistance monitoring – a review of current methodology
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Dr. Pie Mueller, Prof. Marcel Tanner)
• Renggli, Sabine (PPH)
  Promoting Universal Health Coverage: Towards Improved Health Service Quality and Financial Protection
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Christian Lengeler)
• Rios-Leyvraz, Magali (PPH)
  Biomonitoring and health consequences of sodium intake in children
  University Lausanne
  (Supervisors: Prof. Arnaud Chiolero, Prof. Pascal Bovet)
• Ronca, Elias (PPH)
  Utilization and access to healthcare services among community-dwelling people living with chronic spinal cord injury in Switzerland
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Armin Gemperli)
• Schmutz, Claudia (PPH)
  Foodborne diseases in Switzerland: understanding the burden of illness pyramid to improve Swiss infectious disease surveillance
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Mäusezahl)
• Schmutz, Einat (PPH)
  Physical Activity Behaviour in Preschool Children
  University Zürich
  (Supervisors: Prof. Milo Puhan, PD Dr. Susi Kriemler)
• Schneider, Martin (PPH)
  Soins palliatifs et assistance humanitaire d’urgence – Projets spécifiques des organisations humanitaires et vécu des expatriés y engagés
  University Geneva
  (Supervisor: Prof. François Chappuis)
• Thiam, Sokhna (PPH)
  Spatial analysis of diarrhoea and environmental risk factors in an urban context in Senegal, West Africa
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Guéladio Cissé)
• Tough, Hannah (PPH)
  Being alone together: Social relationships, mental functioning and wellbeing in couples coping with disabilitiy
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Armin Gemperli)
• Yebyo, Henock Gebremedhin (PPH)
  Benefit-Harm Balance Modeling to Redefine Cardiovascular Disease Risk Thresholds for Initiating Statin Use for Primary Prevention: National and Global Perspectives
  University Zürich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Milo Puhan)
• Zysset, Annina (PPH)
  Motor skills, Cognitive Skills and Executive Functions in Preschool Children
  University Zurich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Oskar Jenni)

2018

• AlKhaldi, Mohammed (PPH)
  Palestinian Health Research System: Moving Forward
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Marcel Tanner)
• Amini, Hassan (PPH)
  Air quality in Tehran, Iran: Evaluating acute health effects and modelling the long-term spatial variability
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nino Küenzli)
• Bless, Philipp (PPH)
  Epidemiology of campylobacteriosis and acute gastroenteritis from a human and health system’s perspective in Switzerland
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Dr. Daniel Mäusezahl, Prof. Marcel Tanner)
• Chamberlain, Jonviea (PPH)
  Estimating an epidemiological indicator of traumatic spinal cord injury in Switzerland
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Gerold Stucki)
• Chernet, Afona (PPH)
  Infectious and non-communicable health conditions among newly arrived Eritrean migrants and refugees at arrival and post integration in Switzerland
  University Basel
  (Supervisors: Dr. Niklaus Labhardt, Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch)
• Erismann, Séverine (PPH)
  Children’s intestinal parasite and nutritional patterns in face of integrated school garden, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in central Burkina Faso
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Guéladio Cissé)
• Eze, Ikenna (PPH)
  The role of air pollution in the aetiology of type 2 diabetes
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch)
• Gomes do Carmo, Luis Pedro (PPH)
  Antimicrobial usage in livestock: quantifying, understanding intervening
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Dr. Ioannis Magouras)
• Gréa-Krause, Corinna (PPH)
  Health Literacy and Food Choice: From Conceptual Clarification to Empirical Assessment
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Abel)
• Güler-Kaya, Aysel (PPH)
  Neighbourhood socioeconomic position, late presentation, and life expectancy in HIV-positive people in Switzerland
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Matthias Egger)
• Häusler, Nadine (PPH)
  Implications of Population Aging and Resulting Multiple Social Responsibilities on Health Outcomes of the Workforce
  University Zürich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Milo Puhan)
• Hansen, Sofie (PPH)
  Incidence and Pathways of Gender Differences in Adult Asthma
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Elisabeth Zemp Stutz)
• Hoxha, Ilir (PPH)
  Associations of caesarean section rates with characteristics of health care systems
  University Bern
  (Supervisors: Prof. Peter Jüni, Prof. David Goodman)
• Jost, Kerstin (PPH)
  Autonomic control in preterm infants – What we can learn from mathematical descriptions of vital signs
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Sven Schulzke)
• Kamal, Susan (PPH)
  Adherence to Antiretrovirals among HIV-infected adults in Lausanne, Switzerland
  University Geneva
  (Supervisors: Dr. Marie-Paule Schneider, Prof. Olivier Bugnon)
• Kanouté, Youssouf (PPH)
  Neglected zoonotic diseases and cross-border livestock movements in northern Côte d’Ivoire: Towards local and regional integrated control
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Dr. Esther Schelling)
• Kasteler, Rahel (PPH)
  Pulmonary health in Swiss childhood cancer survivors: Burden, risk factors and monitoring
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Kim Young Eun (PPH)
  Value of investing in neglected tropical diseases: an investment case for the elimination and eradication of onchocericiasis (river blindness)
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Fabrizio Tediosi)
• Lingg, Myriam (PPH)
  The regulation, assessment, and management of orthopaedic medical devices in Mexico: Crucial aspects, problems, and steps to improve it
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Kaspar Wyss)
• Mader, Luzius (PPH)
  Long-term socio-economic consequences after cancer during childhood, teenage, and young adulthood
  University Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Gisela Michel)
• Nguyen, Thi Trang Nhung (PPH)
  Air pollution in Hanoi, Vietnam: Evaluating effects on hospital admissions of children
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nino Küenzli)
• Salcito, Kendyl (PPH)
  Rights incorporated: integrating human rights impact assessment into global business practices
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Juerg Utzinger)
• Sundaram, Neisha
  Sociocultural concepts of pandemic influenza and determinants of community vaccine acceptance in Pune, India
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Mitchell Weiss)
• Usemann, Jakob (PPH)
  Immunological and genetic determinants of pulmonary outcome in school aged children
  University Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Urs Frey)
• Wang, Jingying (PPH)
  Breastfeeding with Childhood Respiratory Tract Infections, Eczema and Wheeze
  University Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Weiss, Annette (PPH)
  University Bern
  Hearing impairment after childhood cancer
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)

2017

• Danon-Hersch, Nadia (PPH)
  Nutrition and health in a cohort representative of the general community-dwelling population of Lausanne aged 65 and over
  University of Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Brigitte Santos-Eggimann)
• Fuhrimann, Samuel (PPH)
  Health risk assessment along waste water recovery and reuse systems in Kampala, Uganda and Hanoi, Vietnam
  University of Basel
  (Supervisors: Prof. Jürg Utzinger/ Prof. Guéladio Cissé)
• Goutaki, Myrofora (PPH)
  Epidemiology of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Haas, Andreas (PPH)
  Antiretroviral therapy for prevention of HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa
  University of Bern
  (Supervisors: PD Dr. Olivia Keiser, Prof. Matthias Egger)
• Hofmann, Karen (PPH)
  Social Inequalities in Health and Health Behaviour – Determinants of Health and Health Behaviour in young Swiss Adults
  University of Bern
  (Prof. Thomas Abel)
• Knaier, Raphael (PPH)
  Influence of light on exercise performance in athletes and overweight individuals
  (Supervisor: Prof. Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss)
  University of Basel
• Lasserre, Aurélie (PPH)
  When the heart aches: Atypical features in depression are a hallmark of an increased cardio-metabolic risk
  University of Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Preisig)
• Luta, Xhyljeta (PPH)
  Regional Variation in End of Life Care in Switzerland
  University of Bern
  (Supervisors: PD Dr. Kerri Clough-Gorr, Prof. Matthias Egger)
• Mayen-Chacon, Ana-Lucia (PPH)
  Socio-economic determinants of diet in high and middle income countries: evidence from Swiss, Guatemalan and Seychelles populations
  University of Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Fred Paccaud)
• Müller, Monika (PPH)
  Clinical application of quantitative sensory tests to assess altered pain processing in chronic pain patients
  University of Bern
  (Supervisors: Prof. Peter Jüni, Prof. Michele Curatolo)
• Sagar, Sanjay Gupta (PPH)
  Monitoring of electromagnetic field exposure in an international context
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Röösli)
• Schori, Dominik (PPH)
  Social Inequality in Health and Social Differences in Health Behaviours in Young Swiss Adults
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Abel)
• Vetsch, Janine (PPH)
  Long-term childhood cancer survivors and their parents – information needs, follow-up practices and preferences
  University of Lucerne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Gisela Michel)
• Vischer, Nerina (PPH)
  Efficiency and quality in conducting clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Christian Burri)
• Yammine, Sophie (PPH)
  Transition of inert gas washout measurements from research into clinics
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Philipp Latzin)

2016

• Aeschbacher, Stefanie (PPH)
  Lifestyle and Heart Rate Variability in the General Population
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. David Conen)
• Berlin, Claudia (PPH)
  Cardiovascular disease in Switzerland – health care, mortality and geographical pattern
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Marcel Zwahlen)
• Becker, Sören Leif (PPH)
  Syndromic approaches to persistent digestive disorders (>14 days) in resource-constrained settings: aetiology, clinical assessment and differential diagnostics
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Jürg Utzinger)
• Blaser, Nello (PPH)
  Scale-up of antiretroviral therapy and transmission of HIV in Southern Africa: Mathematical model
  University of Bern
  (Supervisors: PD Dr. Olivia Keiser, Prof. Matthias Egger)
• Endes, Simon (PPH)
  Establishment and Validation of the Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index (CAVI) and Association with Physical Activity in the SAPALDIA Cohort Study
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss)
• Imhof, Katharina (PPH)
  Associations Between Physical Fitness, Physical Activity Behaviours, Cardiovascular Health and Back Health in 6 to 8 Year old Children of Basel-Stadt
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss)
• Karagiannis Voules, Dimitrios Alexios (PPH)
  Bayesian geostatistical variable selection and prediction of tropical diseases
  University of Basel
  (Supervisors: PD Dr. Penelope Vounatsou, Prof. Jürg Utzinger)
• Lupatsch, Judith Eva (PPH)
  Exposure to Infections and the Risk of Leukaemia in Children
  University of Bern
  (Supervisors: Prof. Claudia Kuehni, Dr. Ben Spycher)
• Roser, Katharina (PPH)
  Exposure assessment for mobile phone use and radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and the application in a Swiss cohort study
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Röösli)
• Schindler, Matthias (PPH)
  The Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry as a population based cancer registry: comleteness and epidemiological indicators
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Schöni, Anna (PPH)
  Health symptoms and cognitive function in Swiss adolescents in relation to mobile phone use and radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Röösli)
• Seematter-Bagnoud, Laurence (PPH)
  Alcohol use in community-dwelling older persons aged 65 to 70 years: cross-sectional and longitudinal association with frailty, gait, and health care use
  University of Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Brigitte Santos-Eggimann)
• Yepes, Maryam (PPH)
  From Showcard to Mobile Technology: Novel Tools in Monitoring and Preventing Obesity and Non-Communicable Diseases
  University of Lausanne
  (Supervisors: Prof. Jürgen Maurer, Prof. Pascal Bovet)

2015

• Caviezel, Seraina (PPH)
  Cyclic variation of the common carotid artery structure in relation to prior atherosclerotic burden and physical activity
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss)
• Curjuric, Ivan (PPH)
  Impact of gene-environment interactions within inflammatory and oxidative stress pathways on the development of chronic obstructive lung diesease (COPD)
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch)
• Essig, Stefan (PPH)
  Survivorship and long-term follow-up care in pediatric oncology: Qualitative and quantitative analyses
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Hartley, Mary-Anne (PPH)
  Metastatic leishmaniasis – A chronic inflammatory response to Leishmania’s viral endosymbiont
  University of Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicolas Fasel)
• Pfeil, Alena (PPH)
  Neutropenia in cancer patients, risk prediction models of neutropenia, and supportive measures
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Thomas D. Szucs)
• Roduit, Caroline (PPH)
  Development of atopic dermatitis and its association with prenatal and early life exposures
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer)
• Steck, Nicole (PPH)
  The Epidemiology of Assisted Suicide in Switzerland
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Marcel Zwahlen)
• Wengenroth, Laura (PPH)
  Social Outcomes in Childhood Cancer Survivors
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)

2014

• Gerger, Heike (PPH)
  Sources of bias and variation in meta-analytic psychological outcome research: Revisiting the Dodo bird
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Peter Jüni)
• Gianinazzi, Micol (PPH)
  Childhood Cancer Survivorship: Psycho-oncological aspects and transition of care
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Regnier, Stephane (PPH)
  The Economics of Medicine: Assessing Medications’ Value
  University of Neuchâtel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claude Jeanrenaud)
• Stuckey, Erin Mae (PPH)
  Application of mathematical modelling for malaria control decision-making in settings of varying transmission intensity
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Tom Smith)

2013

• Dean, Anna (PPH)
  Epidemiology of brucellosis and Q Fever in northern Togo and the risk of disease spread through cattle trade in West Africa
  University of Basel
  (Supervisors: PD Dr. Esther Schelling, Prof. Jakob Zinsstag)
• Estill, Janne Anton Markus (PPH)
  Monitoring and outcomes of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients: a mathematical model
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Matthias Egger)
• Gschwind, Yves (PPH)
  Gait, mobility, and falls in older people
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Reto Kressig)
• Hauri, Dimitri (PPH)
  Ionizing And Non-Ionizing Radiation And The Risk Of Childhood Cancer – Illustrated With Domestic Radon And Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Röösli)
• Herzog, Sereina Annik (PPH)
  Mathematical modelling for the timing of progression from Chlamydia trachomatis infection to pelvic inflammatory disease
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Low)
• Kalesan, Bindu (PPH)
  Modeling time-to-event data in estimating effectiveness and safety in interventional cardiology
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Peter Jüni)
• Kim Le, Anh Thi (PPH)
  Health and access to health services of rural-to-urban migrant populations in Viet Nam
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer)
• Lyngdoh, Tanica (PPH)
  Uric acid and cardio-metabolic risk factors: An epidemiological approach
  University of Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Murielle Bochud)
• Meier, Reto (PPH)
  Health effects of occupational exposure to traffic particles and noise
  University of Lausanne
  (Supervisors: Dr. Michael Riediker, Prof. Vincent Barras)
• Musheke, Maurice (PPH)
  Factors influencing uptake of HIV testing and non-initiation of and attrition from antiretroviral therapy care in Lusaka, Zambia
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Dr. Sonja Merten)
• Panczak, Radoslaw (PPH)
  The Geography of Death in Switzerland
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Matthias Egger)
• Ragettli, Martina (PPH)
  Measurement and modeling of short- and long-term commuter exposure to traffic-related air pollution
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Sally Liu)
• Rajkumar, Sarah (PPH)
  The effect of a smoking ban on exposure and cardio-respiratory health in Swiss hospitality workers
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Röösli)
• Rueegg, Corina S. (PPH)
  Physical Activity and Physical Function in Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Cancer
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Schwärzler, Patricia (PPH)
  De nos jours, chacun fait ce qu’il veut” ? Dynamiques des relations sociales et pratiques sexuelles dans le contexte du VIH/sida à Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Brigit Obrist)
• Singer, Florian (PPH)
  Inert Gas Washout to Assess Airway Function. From Bench to Bedside
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Urs Frey)
• Uehli, Katrin (PPH)
  Investigation of the relationship between sleep problems and work injuries
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nino Künzli)
• Urbinello, Damiano (PPH)
  Exposure assessment of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) in everyday environments – methodological approaches and issue-specific perspectives
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Röösli)
• Wang, Jen (PPH)
  The Geneva Gay Men’s Health Project: A community-research collaboration to assess and improve the health of gay men in Geneva, Switzerland
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Marcel Tanner)

2012

• Ausserhofer, Dietmar (PPH)
  High-reliability in healthcare: Nurse-reported patient safety climate and its relationship with patient outcomes in Swiss acute care hospitals
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Sabina De Geest)
• Aydin, Denis (PPH)
  The Use Of Mobile Phones And The Risk Of Brain Tumors Among Children And Adolescents
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Röösli)
• Bachmann, Monica, Denis (PPH)
  Health Behaviour Change in Smokers: Five Articles on the Development of Smoking Behaviour
  Universtiy of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Hansjörg Znoj)
• da Costa, Bruno Cezar (PPH)
  Summarising and Expressing Patient-Reported Outcomes in Osteoarthritis
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Peter Jüni)
• Dey, Michelle (PPH)
  Health-related quality of life among children with mental health problems
  University of Zurich
  (Supervisor: Prof. Meichun Mohler-Kuo)
• Loss, Georg (PPH)
  Investigating the effect of farm milk consumption on childhood asthma and allergies in the context of farming, early life nutrition and innate immunity
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer)
• Meyer, Ursina (PPH)
  Short- and long-term effects of a multi-component physical activity intervention in primary school
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Susi Kriemler, Prof. Uwe Pühse)
• Omlin, Sarah (PPH)
  Schlafstörungen durch nächtlichen Alltagslärm – aus der Public Health Perspektive
  University of Zurich
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Georg Bauer, Prof. Theo Wehner)
• Scott, Pippa (PPH)
  Pneumococcal and Measles Vaccines: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Low)
• Senn, Beate (PPH)
  Creating and validating a patient-reported outcome instrument to assess symptom experience related to surgical wounds in women with vulvar neoplasms – A mixed methods study
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Elisabeth Zemp Stutz)
• Soukhathammavong, Phonepasong (PPH)
  Morbidity and treatment of Opisthorchis viverrini, Schistosoma mekhongi, hookworm and other parasitic helminths in Lao PDR
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Peter Odermatt)

2011/2010

• Adam, Martin (PPH)
  Epidemiology of childhood cancer in Switzerland: Access to care and socioeconomic differentials in incidence and survival.
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Bänteli-Niederer, Iris (PPH)
  Physical fitness in preschool children: Correlates and intervention effects
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Susi Kriemler, Prof. Pedro-Manuel Marques-Vidal)
• Berben, Lut (PPH)
  Chronic Illness Management Implementation – Building research initiative group: chronic illness management and adherence in transplantation
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Sabina De Geest)
• Bretscher, Michael (PPH)
  Estimation of Distributional Parameters of Malaria Infection Durations from Longitudinal Field Data when Detection of the Parasite is Imperfect
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Tom Smith)
• Bringolf-Isler, Bettina (PPH)
  Physical activity in children and the environment
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer)
• Bürgi, Flavia (PPH)
  Physical activity in preschoolers
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: PD Dr. Susi Kriemler, Prof. Pedro-Manuel Marques-Vidal)
• Frei, Patrizia (PPH)
  Radio frequency electromagnetic field exposure and health related quality of life: Prospective cohort study
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Röösli)
• Gaume, Jacques (PPH)
  At-Risk Alcohol Use In Young Adults – Effectiveness And Mechanisms Of Brief Motivational Intervention As A Primary And Secondary Prevention Measure
  University of Lausanne
  (Supervisor: Prof. Jean-Bernard Daeppen)
• Gross, Karin (PPH)
  Intermittent Preventive Treatment during Pregnancy (IPTp) and Antenatal Care (ANC) in Practice: A Study from the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Brigit Obrist)
• Hodel, Eva-Maria (PPH)
  Assessment of the contribution of pharmacogenetics of pharmacogenetics in overall treatment efficacy against malaria by DNA chip technology: an aid for the selection of appropriate drugs in malaria
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Blaise Genton)
• Kurth, Elisabeth (PPH)
  Infant crying & maternal tiredness:Examining their evolution and interaction in the first 12 weeks postpartum
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Elisabeth Zemp Stutz)
• Latzin, Philipp (PPH)
  Early determinants of respiratory symptoms in the first 6 years of life
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Urs Frey)
• Mohler, Evelyn (PPH)
  Effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure on sleep quality
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Martin Röösli)
• Nüesch, Eveline (PPH)
  Bias in meta-analyses of randomised trials
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Peter Jüni)
• Rebholz, Cornelia Eva (PPH)
  Late Effects in Childhood Cancer Survivors
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Spycher, Ben (PPH)
  Analysis of phenotypic variation in childhood wheezing disorders
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kuehni)
• Spörri-Fahrni, Adrian (PPH)
  Regional health differentials in Switzerland: Socio-economic context and individual resources and risk factors
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Matthias Egger)
• Stern, Georgette (PPH)
  Environmental Influences on Autonomic Regulatory Processes and Airway Function
  University of Bern
  (Supervisor: Prof. Urs Frey)
• Wanner, Miriam (PPH)
  Effectiveness of active-online.ch: a web based randomised controlled study
  University of Basel
  (Supervisor: Prof. Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer)
• Winkler, Mirko (PPH)
  Health Impact Assessment in complex eco-epidemiological settings in the humid tropics
  University of Basel
  (Supervisors: Dr. Jürg Utzinger, Prof. Gary Krieger)