Seasonal School Flagships
The SSPH+ community has a long tradition in offering high-level seasonal schools, where professionals and PhD students alike can choose a set of courses, offered in parallel. The following highlights attract students from around the world:
- Winter School in the Wengen mountains, with a focus on epidemiology;
- Spring School in Geneva with its global health focus;
- SSPH+ Lugano Summer School with courses in public health policy, economics and management;
- European Education Program in Epidemiology (EEPE), which has trained, for over 30 years, generations of epidemiologists in the sunny hills of Florence (Italy) with SSPH+ as one of the four co-leading partners.
Global capacity building – a successful strategy of the Swiss Government
The SSPH+ Lugano Summer School goes back to an initiative of visionary public health leader and SSPH+ Honorary Fellow Gianfranco Domenighetti (1942-2017) who launched the first edition of courses taught in French in 1992. Health systems and economics training have remained at heart of this highlight in the annual program, which brings together more than 100 scientists and professionals every edition. The SSPH+ Lugano Summer School comprises a particularly diverse and engaged student community thanks to the fellowship program funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). It brings 30-40 students from SDC focal countries to Lugano – a prime example of global capacity building in health systems, economics, and management. Many of those fellows have established collaborations with Swiss institutions and others launched training collaborations in their own countries to scale-up sustainable capacity building.
