Courses

You can search for a course offered by SSPH+ partners by title, topic, and/or location.

  • Leadership - LEAD

    Leadership ought to set a good example, innovate and inspire, imbue the organisation with the desire to perform at a high level, on the one hand, and to safeguard core values, on the other hand. In this module, students gain insight into the leadership behaviour of others and of themselves and discuss what it takes to be considered the designer of an organisation or an organisational unit that others want to be part of. The module covers all topics linked to the challenge of combining the economic imperative for a competitive, highly productive workforce with trust, empowerment and respect for the individual.

    1. Dates: 27.03.2023 – 25.06.2023
    2. Registration: 17.03.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel and ONLINE (Hybrid)
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics: Transferable Skills, Health Services Administration
  • Antropocene and Health

    This course will provide a unique opportunity for participants to learn about major issues related to global environmental changes and health today. The main objectives are as follows :

    • Become familiar with the fundamentals of One Health and Planetary Health, through examining ecosystem services, planetary boundaries, environmental changes and population growth;
    • Examine the impacts of environmental changes on population health, by focusing on specific risks and threats such as antimicrobial resistance and emerging diseases;
    • Become aware of the relationship between climate changes and equity as well as look at other vulnerabilities, particularly with regard to non-communicable diseases;
    • Explore the interrelationship between public health systems and the environment, specifically between climate changes and humanitarian activities, by looking at the co-benefits and trade-offs between health and the environment;
    • Identify challenges and search for solutions in the fields of planning, risk reduction, adaptation and policy implementation.
    1. Dates: 27.03.2023 – 30.03.2023
    2. Location: University of Geneva
    3. Facilitator: Antoine Flahault, Eric Comte 
    4. Topics:
  • Analyse a priori des risques

    Description:
    Objectifs d’apprentissage:
    Conduire une analyse a priori des risques et en tirer un plan d'action avec ses indicateurs
    Comprendre la complémentarité des analyses a priori et a posteriori des risques, dans le cadre de la sécurité des soins

    Etablir les liens entre un événement, un événement indésirable et l'analyse à priori des risques

    1. Dates: 27.03.2023 – 29.03.2023
    2. Registration: 01.11.2022
    3. Location: University of Geneva and Lausanne
    4. Facilitator: Pascal Bonnabry, Antoine Garnier 
    5. Topics:
  • Analyse de survie

    Ce cours présente la problématique de l’analyse statistique de données censurées, lorsque la variable d’intérêt est la durée entre un premier événement (par exemple une opération) et un second événement (par exemple la mort ou la récidive), et que ce second événement n’est pas observé chez tous les patient·e·s de l’échantillon durant le temps de l’étude (il y a des survivant·e·s au terme de l’étude). Ces analyses, en particulier la méthode de Kaplan-Meier, les modèles exponentiels et le modèle de Cox, sont très fréquentes dans les sciences biomédicales. Les méthodes sont illustrées avec le logiciel statistique Stata.
    Introduction à la problématique de l’analyse de survie, méthode de Kaplan-Meier
    Inférence à partir de Kaplan-Meier, test du log-rank, exercices sur papier
    Concept de taux de mortalité, modèle exponentiel, lien entre modèle de Poisson et modèle exponentiel, modèle exponentiel par morceaux, exercices avec Stata
    Modèle de Cox, exercices avec Stata
    Exercices récapitulatifs avec Stata

    1. Dates: 29.03.2023 – 31.03.2023
    2.  Course Dates: 18., 19. and 20. May
    3. Registration: 15.12.2022
    4. Location: Unisanté, Lausanne
    5. Facilitator: Valentin Rousson 
    6. Topics: (Bio)Statistics
  • Understanding social inequalities and social problems in health!

    Description:

    Public health research and practice continue to be challenged by people’s
    unequal chances of living full and healthy lives and by other social
    problems, like communication problems, that negatively affect people’s
    health and healthcare, or public health efforts. Key social sciences
    concepts, including social status, social interactions and capital, can help
    elucidate various public health problems from the social determinants of
    health to health care team and health-provider/patient communication.
    In this course, we examine these concepts, drawing on founding texts
    from the social sciences and seeing how they have been applied in the

    fields of public health and health services.

    1. Dates: 03.04.2023 – 05.04.2023
    2. Registration: 03.03.2023
    3. Location: University of Basel
    4. Facilitator: Kristen Jafflin, Stéphane Cullati 
    5. Topics:
  • Thesis Preparation and Master Thesis Workshop - TPMT

    The Master thesis allows the student to demonstrate competence in managing research- or project-based work in
    conjunction with professional practice and ethical principles. Students will be evaluated on their ability to: identify
    and critically evaluate concepts, models and principles suited to the chosen area of work; select and justify a
    methodology that applies the most appropriate tools, techniques and practices; and engage in reflective and
    reflexive analysis of the findings or processes. (Only for MBA-IHM students. Invoice is not issued until the thesis proposal has been accepted by the study board).

    1. Dates: 03.04.2023 – 05.05.2023
    2. Registration: 24.03.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) - Basel/Zürich/Tübingen/München/Wien and ONLINE (Hybrid)
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics:
  • Réseaux

    Description

    • Identifier les différents réseaux utiles à la promotion de la santé au niveau régional, cantonal, national et international et les ressources mises à disposition par le réseau de promotion de la santé en Suisse latine. Les étudiant-es sont sensibilisé-es à l’importance du travail inter et multidisciplinaire et aux avantages stratégiques des réseaux cantonaux, intercantonaux et nationaux
    1. Dates: 04.04.2023 – 25.04.2023
    2. Registration: 30.06.2022
    3. Location: University of Geneva
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics:
  • Digital technologies for addressing challenges in women' health and wellbeing

    Description:

    Digital health technologies and services hold a considerable potential of solutions for ameliorating women’s health and well-being. They are increasingly used for accessing, collecting, and analysing personal health data, for hosting communities around specific health conditions or for accessing health-related services. For instance, applications have provided a unique global window for the tracking of menstrual health, for women who are victims of violence, or for the promotion of positive sexual health. Digital technologies also offer solutions for improving the promotion/prevention of health during the perinatal period. They hold the potential to help compensate some of the known global inequalities in access to mental health support for women suffering from postpartum depression, for instance by enabling access to online peer-support or online therapies. The goal of this 2-day workshop will be to present the work of four experts in digital health addressing issues related to women’s menstrual health, perinatal health, and overall physical and mental health and wellbeing. A second objective of this workshop will be to conduct a collaborative ideathon project in groups to conceptualize one project idea for which they think that digital technology may bring a significant innovation and value for improving women’s overall physical and mental health and well-being. Participants will be encouraged to anticipate the implications of the project in terms of cultural context, access, adhesion, ethics, data analytics and financing. This exercise will benefit from the interactions with the speakers and the course instructors.

    1. Dates: 05.04.2023 – 06.04.2023
    2. Registration: 15.03.2023
    3. Location: University of Geneva
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics:
  • Health Policy and Systems Analysis

    In this module, students analyse the relationships between global health strategies, national and local health policies and systems development. They critically assess alternatives for health system financing and frameworks, the roles and behaviour of institutions and stakeholders, innovative health service delivery initiatives, and how health systems are influenced by and respond to global changes and wider social determinants. Students examine key element for measuring and monitoring health system performance, such as governance, information systems and human resources, and learn how they influence health system performance and expected outcomes.

    1. Dates: 11.04.2023 – 07.07.2023
    2. Registration: 01.04.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel and ONLINE (Hybrid)
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics: Health Policy, Systems, and Management, Global / International Health
  • Gesundheitspolitik

    Unser Lebensraum wird durch Politik strukturiert. Politik generiert die wesentlichen Entscheide über die Aus- und Umgestaltung unserer sozialen Rahmenbedingungen. Gesundheitspolitik definiert und gestaltet den engeren Raum, in dem sich Berufstätige aus dem Public-Health-Bereich bewegen.

    In diesem Modul lernen Sie, Entscheidungsprozesse in der Gesundheitspolitik besser zu verstehen. Sie analysieren die Entstehung und die Bedeutung von gesundheitspolitischen Entscheiden für Public Health und erkennen den Bezug zu Politik und Gesellschaft.


    Inhalte
    • Politische Theorie
    • Politikfelder und Entscheidungsprozesse
    • Rolle verschiedener Akteure in der Gesundheitspolitik
    • Bedeutung der Gesundheitspolitik für Public Health
    • Internationale Bezüge in der Gesundheitspolitik (soweit möglich)
    • Partizipationsmöglichkeiten im politischen Prozess

    1. Dates: 17.04.2023 – 19.04.2023
    2. Registration: 17.02.2023
    3. Location: Institut für Epidemiologie, Biostatistik und Prävention, Universität Zürich
    4. Facilitator: Reto Wiesli 
    5. Topics: Health Politics, Health Policy, Systems, and Management
    1. Dates: 17.04.2023 – 12.05.2023
    2. Registration: 31.12.2022
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) - Basel/Zürich/Tübingen/München/Wien
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics:
  • Prevention and control of occupational risks and diseases

    This module will prepare you to prevent and control common occupational risks at the workplace.

    Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:


    • Perform Biomonitoring
    • Interpret risk analyses
    • Develop programs to minimize and control risks
    • Plan and perform the examination of specific risk groups, applying knowledge and best practice
    1. Dates: 24.04.2023 – 27.04.2023
    2. Registration: 20.03.2023
    3. Location: University of Lausanne
    4. Facilitator: Veronica Turcu 
    5. Topics: Occupational Health, Hygiene, and Medicine
  • Culture de la sécurité et Gouvernance

    Description:
    Objectifs d’apprentissage:

    • Comprendre le concept de culture sécurité
    • Connaître les différents instruments de mesure de la culture sécurité
    • Connaître les modalités de mise en œuvre d’une enquête culture sécurité
    • Comprendre le concept de gouvernance de la sécurité des patients
    • Connaître les bonnes pratiques de gouvernance et les formes d’organisation pour la mettre en œuvre
    • Comprendre le processus d’analyse stratégique et de définition de vision, valeurs et axes stratégiques
    1. Dates: 24.04.2023 – 26.04.2023
    2. Registration: 01.11.2023
    3. Location: University of Geneva and Lausanne
    4. Facilitator: Pierre Chopard, Anthony Staines 
    5. Topics:
  • Communication scientifique

    • Rédaction d’un protocole, rédaction d’un article et réponse au reviewers
    • Règles d’authorship
    • Financement d’une étude de recherche
    • Communication aux médias
    • Trucs et astuces pour la rédaction scientifique en anglais
    1. Dates: 26.04.2023 – 28.04.2022
    2. Registration: 15.06.2022
    3. Location: University of Geneva
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics: General Scientific Skills
    1. Dates: 27.04.2023 – 26.05.2023
    2. Registration: 15.12.2022
    3. Location:
    4. Facilitator: Marie-Annick Le Pogam 
    5. Topics:
    1. Dates: 02.05.2023 – 09.06.2023
    2. Location: Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
    3. Facilitator: S. Calciolari 
    4. Topics: Health Economics, Learning Health Systems
  • Gesundheitsökonomie

    Die Gesundheitsökonomie befasst sich mit der Nachfrage, Produktion, Finanzierung und Ressourcenallokation von Gesundheitsleistungen. Da die Ressourcen begrenzt sind, wird ein Grundwissen in Gesundheitsökonomie für Personen, die im Gesundheitswesen tätig sind, immer wichtiger. In diesem Modul lernen Sie zu verstehen, wie der Gesundheitsmarkt funktioniert, wie er sich von anderen Märkten unterscheidet und was die Gesundheitsökonomie zur Problembearbeitung im Gesundheitssystem beitragen kann.

    Inhalte
    • Einführung sowie vertiefte Kenntnisse in der Gesundheitsökonomie
    • Allgemeine ökonomische Grundlagen
    • Angebot und Nachfrage im Gesundheitssystem
    • Gerechtigkeit und Effizienz im Gesundheitssystem
    • Zahlungsbereitschaft und Präferenzen
    • Markt der Krankenversicherung und Erstattung
    • Risikoausgleich und Versicherungswettbewerb
    • Spitalfinanzierung und finanzielle Anreize im Gesundheitswesen

    1. Dates: 02.05.2023 – 04.05.2023
    2. Registration: 02.03.2023
    3. Location: Institut für Epidemiologie, Biostatistik und Prävention, Universität Zürich
    4. Facilitator: Matthias Schwenkglenks 
    5. Topics: Health Economics, Learning Health Systems
  • Evaluation économique des interventions et politiques de santé

    Objektifs:

    Au terme de ce module de formation, le·la participant·e sera en mesure de :

    • Expliquer les quatre méthodes d’évaluation économique.
    • Choisir quelle méthode d’évaluation économique appliquer à quelle situation.
    • Identifier les types de données nécessaires à la conduite d’une évaluation économique.
    • Comprendre les défis particuliers liés à l’évaluation économique de politiques de santé.
    • Déterminer le périmètre des coûts à inclure en fonction du point de vue adopté dans l’évaluation économique.
    • Présenter une évaluation économique publiée dans une revue scientifique.
    • Décrire les forces et faiblesses d’une évaluation économique.
    • Comprendre l’utilité de l’évaluation médico-économique comme méthode d’aide à la décision.
    1. Dates: 03.05.2023 – 05.05.2023
    2. Registration: 30.06.2023
    3. Location: Unisanté and Haute École de Santé Vaud, Lausanne
    4. Facilitator: Christoph Pinget 
    5. Topics:
  • Control of the occupational environment

    The focus is on airborne contaminants. Students will acquire a sound understanding and practical skills in the relevant technical and organizational measures.


    Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:


    • Evaluate and manage ventilation
    • Manage airborne contaminants in various situations to reduce risk
    • Evaluate and manage ventilation and containment
    • Evaluate substitution as an option in exposure management
    1. Dates: 08.05.2023 – 12.05.2023
    2. Registration: 22.03.2021
    3. Location: University of Lausanne
    4. Facilitator: Guillaume Suarez 
    5. Topics: Occupational Health, Hygiene, and Medicine
  • Big Data in Public Health

    Description:

    Big data approaches raise high hopes, promising that this new form of data mining and analysis will significantly improve public health research and action. The proposed course will give a broad overview of potentials and limitations of big data from multiple public health disciplines. Definitions and concepts particularly from epidemiology, geography, and psychology are introduced and discussed in key note lectures to evaluate the public health relevance of big data. We will also examine key legal and ethical challenges from a broader public health.

    perspective. Subsequently, we will explore emerging methods in big
    data analysis and their application for advancing public health
    research, with a particular focus on mental health in mini projects
    working on perspective papers (i.e., group assignments extending on the
    key note lectures) during and in the aftermath of the course.

    1. Dates: 08.05.2023 – 12.05.2023
    2. Registration: 08.04.2023
    3. Location: University of Zurich
    4. Facilitator: Oliver Gruebner, Eva Furrer 
    5. Topics:
  • Grundlagen der Biostatistik, Critical Reading von Studien, Grundlagen qualitativer Studien, Literatursuche, Erkrankungen des Bewegungsapparates

    Beschreibung:

    Dieses Modul ist dem kritischen Lesen, Verstehen und der Systematik von medizinischen Studien gewidmet. Die Teilnehmenden erlernen eine Systematik zur Beurteilung wissenschaftlicher Literatur, die Interpretation von Studienergebnissen und die Einstufung der Evidenzebene von wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten. Im Bereich der Biostatistik werden die grundlegenden Begriffe und die wichtigsten statistischen Tests und ihre Bedeutung kennengelernt. Die Osteoporose wird als Beispiel aus versicherungsmedizinischer Perspektive dargestellt. Zusätzlich wird in die Methodik der Fragebogenerstellung und der qualitativen Forschung eingeführt. Ziel ist, dass die Teilnehmenden am Ende der Woche die Bewertung einer Primärstudie selbständig durchführen können und sicher mit den verschiedenen medizinischen Datenbanken/Bibliotheken umgehen können.

    1. Dates: 08.05.2023 – 12.05.2023
    2. Location: University of Basel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
    1. Dates: 10.05.2023 – 12.05.2023
    2. Location: Universite de Neuchatel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Recherche sur les services de santé : évaluation et implémentation

    Ce module a pour but d’introduire les participant·e·s aux enjeux et spécificité de la recherche évaluative et d’implémentation. Un mélange de cours, d’exercices et lectures, ainsi que d’exemples concrets du terrain permettra d’enseigner les différents aspects et concepts décrits. Ceci sera favorisé par l’interdisciplinarité et l’interprofessionnalité des intervenant·e·s du module. Il s’adresse aux professionnel·le·s de santé, chercheurs et chercheuses, décideur·se·s , toute personne intéressée par/impliquée dans la recherche évaluative et d’implémentation.
    Thématiques abordées
    Types d’étude en recherche sur les services de santé
    Types et méthodes d’évaluations
    Modèles logiques et théories de programme
    Interventions complexes: définition et spécificités de leurs évaluations
    Méthodes mixtes, un outil d’évaluation
    Données de routine et données reportées par les patients (PROMs, PREMs)
    Concepts et cadres conceptuels d’implémentation
    Etudes hybrides efficacité-implémentation
    Participation & implication du patient et des différents acteurs de santé – Evidence-based policy-making

    1. Dates: 10.05.2023 – 12.05.2023
    2.  Course Dates: 8., 9., 10. June
    3. Registration: 30.06.2022
    4. Location: Unisanté, Lausanne
    5. Facilitator: Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux, Marie-Annick Le Pogam 
    6. Topics: Health Policy, Systems, and Management, Learning Health Systems
  • Introduction to Epidemiology and Study Designs

    According to the dictionary of epidemiology, «Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to control of health problems». In this course module we will cover basic epidemiologic terms and definitions, as well as the main epidemiologic quantities we get presented in public health related publications and in clinical studies. Furthermore, you will learn to identify the study designs most often used in population-based and clinical epidemiology.

    Content:

    • Basic terms in demography (sex and age structure of the population, birth and death rates, life expectancy and infant mortality)
    • Study designs we cover: Cross-sectional, cohort and case-control studies, intervention studies and diagnostic accuracy studies
    • Basic quantities in epidemiology: Prevalence, incidence rates (crude and age-adjusted), risk ratio, risk difference, number needed to treat, odds ratio, sensitivity, specificity
    1. Dates: 12.05.2023 – 15.05.2023
    2. Registration: 12.02.2023
    3. Location: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), Bern
    4. Facilitator: Marcel Zwahlen, Claudia Kühni 
    5. Topics: Epidemiology, General Scientific Skills
    1. Dates: 15.05.2023 – 23.06.2023
    2. Registration: 31.12.2022
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) - Basel/Zürich/Tübingen/München/Wien
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics:
    1. Dates: 22.05.2023 – 17.07.2023
    2. Location: Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
    3. Facilitator: L. Lomazzi 
    4. Topics: Soft Skills, Health Policy, Systems, and Management
  • Migration Health

    Description:

    Migration health is an amalgamation of public health, travel medicine, tropical
    and infectious disease medicine, with a focus on assessing and addressing the
    complex health care needs of mobile and un-rooted populations. This poses
    major challenges to the health systems of hosting countries such as:


    • Awareness and importance of migration health in the health system
    • Training of health professionals in the context of migration health
    • Preparing health systems to meet requirements of imported ill health
    • conditions
    • Accurate diagnostics and adequate management of refugees’ and
    • migrants’ health problems
    • Surveillance for disease clusters and outbreaks in reception and refugee
    • centers
    This course is a rather rapidly growing field of study that embraces a multi-
    disciplinary expertise within the area of public and global health. It incorporates
    clinical, epidemiological, and public health skills in dealing with migration
    health related challenges into the already existing packages of tools and skills,
    and offers substantial benefit the fields.
    Linking a broad range of disciplinary specialties – ranging from social workers
    to medical professional and researchers - audiences will be likely to represent
    broad diverse backgrounds. Nonetheless, the course is designed for PhD
    students engaged in Epidemiology, Public Health, and Global Health related
    fields, among other broad disciplines.
    No prior knowledge of migration health is required for this course. However, an
    active participation or engagement in the interactive course elements is
    1. Dates: 22.05.2023 – 24.05.2023
    2. Registration: 22.04.2023
    3. Location: Swiss TPH, Allschwil and ONLINE (Hybrid)
    4. Facilitator: Daniel H. Paris, Yves-Laurent Jackson 
    5. Topics:
    1. Dates: 22.05.2023 – 13.06.2023
    2. Location: Universita della Svizzera Italiana
    3. Facilitator: L. Lomazzi 
    4. Topics:
  • Leadership et Interprefessionnalité

    Description:

    Objectifs d'apprentissage:
    • Connaître les concepts de leadership et de collaboration interprofessionnelle
    • Analyser l’impact des bonnes pratiques de leadership et d’interprofessionnalité sur la qualité et sécurité des soins
    • Développer ses compétences de leadership et d’interprofessionnalité
    • Développer ses compétences de gestion de conflit et de négociation
    1. Dates: 22.05.2023 – 24.05.2023
    2. Registration: 01.11.2022
    3. Location: Unisersity of Geneva and Lausanne
    4. Facilitator: Katherine Blondon, Joachim Rapin 
    5. Topics:
    1. Dates: 31.05.2023 – 02.06.2023
    2. Registration: 30.04.2023
    3. Location: Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano
    4. Facilitator: Emiliano Albanese, Rebecca Amati 
    5. Topics:
  • Innovative Versorgungsformen

    Hauptziel dieses Moduls ist es, die Entwicklung von neuen Modellen der integrierten Versorgung darzustellen, zu verstehen und zu diskutieren. Dabei wird sowohl auf die präventive (Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention) als auch die kurative Leistungserbringung (Medizin, Pflege, Therapie etc.) Bezug genommen.

    Dazu


    • lernen Sie zunächst die Akteure auf Seiten der Leistungserbringung kennen und diskutieren deren Interessen
    • analysieren wir gemeinsam, zu welchen Herausforderungen die Abgrenzungen auf Seiten der Leistungserbringung führen. Entsprechend lernen Sie auch die verschiedenen Tarifsysteme und deren rechtlichen Ausgestaltungen kennen - im Sinne von «wer darf was mit wem abrechnen».
    • entwickeln Sie eigene Ideen für neue Versorgungsformen. Gemeinsam werden wir diese Ideen mit den aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Versorgung spiegeln und diskutieren.
    • geben wir abschliessend einen gemeinsamen Ausblick im Sinne von «wie wahrscheinlich ist es, dass es in naher Zukunft in der Schweiz eine Versorgungsform wie Kaiser Permanente (Beispiel aus USA) geben wird?»
    1. Dates: 05.06.2023 – 07.06.2023
    2. Registration: 05.04.2023
    3. Location: Institut für Epidemiologie, Biostatistik und Prävention, Universität Zürich
    4. Facilitator: Holger Auerbach 
    5. Topics: Health Policy, System and Management, Health Promotion and Prevention
  • Supply Chain Management in Health Care

    Many problems related to healthcare quality and safety are the consequences of poorly managed medicines and medical supplies. This module introduces all elements of the supply chain cycle for medicines and other health commodities, including selection of medicines, procurement, distribution and use. Central to this is the management of the whole supply chain system, which comprises quality assurance, human resources, financing, relevant policies and regulations, and monitoring and evaluation. This module emphasizes the importance of integrating supply chain activities into overall health system management.

    1. Dates: 05.06.2023 – 02.09.2023
    2. Registration: 26.05.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel and ONLINE (Hybrid)
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics: Health Services Administration, Health Policy, Systems, and Management
  • Life Course Epidemiology and Public Health

    Description:

    Population health is shaped by a complex set of determinants occurring throughout the life course. Life Course Epidemiology (LCE) aims to causally link exposures across the life course to long-term health outcomes via longitudinal studies. LCE investigates the dynamic of exposures at different periods of life (from conception to old ages), at various levels (social, environmental, behavioural, and biological) and historical periods (birth cohorts), and how these exposures influence population health. For this course, we focus on LCE in public health whereby unravelling the complex origins of disease and health aims at informing preventive strategies. Life course epidemiology informs public health interventions via i) identification of windows of opportunity (life periods), ii) identification of target exposures and iii) assessment of potential intervention strategies. Stemming from the same framework, we introduce life course theories and contemporary methods of causal inference from observational data, allowing to explicit confounding assumptions underlying LCE research questions and to evaluate potential public health interventions. More specifically, we will address the following topics:

    • Why life course studies are essential in Public Health, with an emphasis on early life determinants and primordial intervention of chronic diseases.
    • Core epidemiologic study designs of life course studies (birth and prospective cohort studies).
    • Main life course models (critical/sensitive period and accumulation) through
    • which exposures may affect later health outcomes.
    • Causal thinking and statistical methods to assess LCE models from observational data
    1. Dates: 05.06.2023 – 07.06.2023
    2. Registration: 05.05.2023
    3. Location: University of Fribourg
    4. Facilitator: Cristian Carmeli, Arnaud Chiolero 
    5. Topics:
  • Diagnostic Studies

    This course will focus on the design, analyses and interpretation of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) studies. DTA studies evaluate the performance of a diagnostic test, for example to gauge how good a test is at discriminating between diseased and non-diseased persons.
    This course starts with a basic introduction to what a DTA study is and what estimates such as sensitivity and specificity mean. Practicals will be used to calculate estimates of diagnostic accuracy on paper and using STATA. Some calculations to plan study size will be addressed. Thereafter, the course participants are introduced to variations in designs explaining the merits but also pitfalls of specific design choices. Sources of bias and variation will be discussed in detail.

    Objectives:

    • Understand the different objectives and designs of DTA studies
    • Understand the main ways to quantify diagnostic test accuracy and reliability
    • Understand potential risks of bias and concerns regarding applicability of DTA study results
    • Understand design options in case no generally accepted reference standard is available to compare your test of interest to (e.g. latent class analysis)
    • Understand the concepts underlying different approaches to statistical analyses of DTA studies, including sample size calculations
    • Describe estimates and interpret results from DTA studies appropriately
    • Understand necessary element for high quality of reporting (STARD)
    1. Dates: 07.06.2023 – 09.06.2022
    2. Registration: 08.04.2022
    3. Location: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
    4. Facilitator: Anne W.S. Rutjes, Marcel Zwahlen 
    5. Topics: (Bio)Statistics
  • Régression logistique

    L’analyse de régression logistique est plus complexe que celle de régression linéaire, car le modèle logistique est non-linéaire et la variable dépendante n’est pas quantitative mais qualitative. Ce module permet de bien comprendre les différences fondamentales en démontrant le parallèle entre l’analyse de régression linéaire et celle de régression logistique.
    Thématiques abordées
    Principes de l’analyse de régression
    Concepts fondamentaux de la modélisation des variables qualitatives dichotomiques
    Formulation mathématique du modèle et son estimation, ainsi que les différentes procédures de tests
    Interprétation des coefficients de régression (sur l’échelle logit)
    Calcul des mesures de risque les plus utilisées en épidémiologie (Odds Ratio, Risque Relatif, différence de risque, etc.)
    Calcul du risque associé aux différentes covariables
    Stratégie de modélisation, analyse des résidus et évaluation de la qualité de l’ajustement du modèle aux données

    1. Dates: 07.06.2023 – 09.06.2023
    2. Registration: 30.06.2022
    3. Location: Unisanté, Lausanne
    4. Facilitator: Yolanda Mueller, Julien Dupraz 
    5. Topics: (Bio)Statistics
  • Disaster management

    Practical interdisciplinary disaster management. Students will learn and practice controlling and managing mid- to large-scale industrial accidents in collaboration with external partners.


    Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:


    • Select and properly use the suitable PPE
    • Select, mobilize and cooperate with external partners, e.g. fire brigade troops, rescue troops, police, state government
    • Evaluate personal contamination and perform decontamination
    • Manage contagious lab spills
    1. Dates: 12.06.2023 – 15.06.2023
    2. Registration: 05.05.2023
    3. Location:
    4. Facilitator: Sven Hoffmann, Tom Hofmann 
    5. Topics: Occupational Health, Hygiene, and Medicine
  • Ökonomische Evaluation im Gesundheitswesen

    Die ökonomische Bewertung von Gesundheit und Gesundheitstechnologien ist für viele Fragestellungen im Bereich Public Health und insbesondere für Finanzierungsentscheide ein wesentlicher Aspekt. In diesem Modul lernen Sie, Gesundheitsleistungen ökonomisch zu evaluieren und für Politiker, Kostenträger und Leistungserbringer Entscheidungsgrundlagen bereitzustellen.

    Inhalte
    • Theoretischer Hintergrund: gesundheitsökonomische Konzepte
    • Empirische Methoden der Kostenbestimmung und der gesundheitsökonomischen Evaluation
    • Prioritätenfestsetzung (Rationalisierung und Rationierung)
    • Gesundheitsökonomie und -politik in der Krankenversicherung
    • Argumentation bei gesundheitsökonomischen Empfehlungen
    • Kritisches Lesen von Publikationen zu gesundheitsökonomischen Evaluationen
    1. Dates: 12.06.2023 – 15.06.2023
    2. Registration: 12.04.2023
    3. Location: Institut für Epidemiologie, Biostatistik und Prävention, Universität Zürich
    4. Facilitator: Matthias Schwenkglenks 
    5. Topics: Health Economics, Health Policy, Systems, and Management
  • Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis

    Description:

    A systematic review (SR) is a review of the scientific literature on a
    specific research question that adopts explicit and standardized
    methods to minimize potential biases and thus provide more reliable
    findings to support decision-making and to guide future research. It is a
    key element for evidence-base medicine and public health (EBM&PH).
    Our course is designed for PhD students and researchers who want to
    know how SRs can be used within healthcare and public health to inform
    decisions making within and an EBM&PH framework.
    The participants will learn how to conduct a SR and synthesize evidence
    (meta-analysis; MA) and the process from the initial research question to
    best practice reporting results. They will apply statistical methods and
    tools to conduct SR and MA (risk of bias tool to assess the methodological
    quality of studies; meta-analytic methods to quantitative summarize
    evidence; GRADE framework to assess the confidence in the MA results).
    Examples will be taken from experimental and observational research.

    1. Dates: 13.06.2023 – 16.06.2023
    2. Registration: 13.05.2023
    3. Location: University of Fribourg
    4. Facilitator: Arnaud Chiolero, Cinzia Del Giovane 
    5. Topics:
  • Etudes diagnostiques, études pronostiques et scores cliniques

    Description

    • Principes généraux des études diagnostiques et pronostiques
    • Qualité des études diagnostiques
    • Performances de marqueurs diagnostiques/pronostiques
    • Seuil optimal
    • Développement et validation de scores prédictifs (discrimination, calibration)
    • Exercices pratiques
    • * Il est fortement recommandé de connaître le principe des modèles de régression logistique pour suivre cette option.
    1. Dates: 14.06.2023 – 16.06.2023
    2. Registration: 15.06.2022
    3. Location: Institut universitaire de médecine sociale et préventive (IUMSP), Lausanne; University of Geneva
    4. Facilitator: C. Combescure 
    5. Topics: General Scientific Skills
  • Biosafety

    This course is equivalent to the official Biosafety level I course.

    Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
    • Work as a biosafety officer on level I
    • Instruct lab workers on biosafety issues
    • Manage contagious waste
    • Manage contagious lab spills

    1. Dates: 16.06.2023 – 16.06.2023
    2. Registration: 10.05.2023
    3. Location: Mittelhäusern, Bern
    4. Facilitator: Sven Hoffmann 
    5. Topics: Occupational Health, Hygiene, and Medicine
  • Introduction to Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment (Cost Effectiveness Modelling for HTA)

    Description:

    The course builds upon a well-established course established through a collaboration between the University of Leeds (UK), University of Auckland (New Zealand), University of Alberta (Canada) and University of Edinburgh (UK). The course will introduce the concepts of HTA and economic evaluations in health covering the history of their development and rationale for their use. The use of HTA for policymaking and reimbursement will be covered and we will discuss alternative frameworks for economic evaluation. We will focus on quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), the cost-utility framework and decision modelbased analyses. We will discuss the rationale for the use of decision-analytic modelling. The course 3 will then introduce decision tree models and a particular case study in a diagnostic test context. We will then move onto introduce Markov models and spend more time exploring how these work and the information required to generate them. The outputs of economic evaluations will be discussed and we will cover the importance of uncertainty and how to assess this in sensitivity analyses. There will be hands-on exercises through-out the course to enable students to try out modelling in Excel and to generate results. You will construct a probabilistic model in Excel considering the nature of the data distributions for model parameters and generate and interpret the results from this. After introducing the concept of uncertainty in economic evaluations, we will go on to consider the implications of this information for decision making, the cost of making the wrong decision and value of additional research. As well as providing practical modelling experience, the course will introduce theories and technical terms used in HTA and there will be opportunities to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the available frameworks. We will cover emerging fields in HTA such as the use of real-world evidence and key debates such as: should we include spillover effects in economic evaluations?; how much should we be willing to pay for health gain (and how should we determine this)? Course practical exercise and solution Excel files are provided as is an exercise booklet.

    1. Dates: 19.06.2023 – 23.06.2023
    2. Location: Lucerne
    3. Facilitator: David Meads, Dan Howdon 
    4. Topics:
  • Global Health, Drugs, Policy and Power

    Objectives of the Course:

    The main objectives of the Summer School are for students to:

    • acquire a strong understanding of the major health and human rights issues related to drug use and drug policy;
    • become familiar with and gain insight into the functioning and implications of international drug control regime and its intersection with public health and human rights ;
    • understand the historical, sociological and policy perspective of three major present day drug issues: opiates overdose epidemics; cannabis and tobacco.
    • understand the power dynamics of how various substances are dealt with in our societies; and explore solutions for better governance.
    1. Dates: 19.06.2023 – 23.06.2023
    2. Location: University of Geneva
    3. Facilitator: Jennifer Hasselgard-Rowe, Barbara Broers 
    4. Topics:
  • Approche qualitative

    La recherche qualitative sera exposée à travers ses différentes étapes : bases théoriques, formulation des questions de recherche, choix de la méthode de production des données, échantillonnage, production, analyse et interprétation des données, conception de protocoles. Cette méthodologie sera illustrée et discutée à travers divers projets réalisés par les intervenant·e·s. Nous chercherons à aborder les thèmes de manière aussi interactive que possible afin de répondre aux attentes des participant·e·s et d’intégrer l’expertise et l’expérience variées des intervenant·e·s et des participant·e·s. Selon le souhait des participant·e·s, il est aussi possible de se pencher spécifiquement sur leurs projets réalisés, en cours ou en planification.

    1. Dates: 21.06.2023 – 23.06.2023
    2. Registration: 30.06.2022
    3. Location: Institut universitaire de médecine sociale et préventive (IUMSP), Lausanne; University of Geneva
    4. Facilitator: Julie Castro, Emilie Bovet 
    5. Topics: General Scientific Skills
    1. Dates: 21.06.2023 – 23.06.2023
    2. Location: Universite de Neuchatel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Konzepte, Methoden und Anwendungen der deskriptiven und analytischen Epidemiologie

    In Public Health braucht es zuverlässige Daten für die Beschreibung und Bewertung von Gesundheitsproblemen der Bevölkerung. Diese werden in verschiedenen Studientypen der deskriptiven und analytischen Epidemiologie gewonnen. Zu den wichtigen Aufgaben der Epidemiologie gehört es, die Bedeutung von Gesundheitsproblemen einzuschätzen, Kontrollmöglichkeiten zu planen und Krankheitsausbrüche zu erfassen.

    Dieses Modul besteht aus zwei Blöcken. Der erste Block fokussiert auf Konzepte und Methoden der analytischen Epidemiologie, der zweite Block auf deren Anwendung:

    • Im ersten Block planen Sie Studien der deskriptiven und analytischen Epidemiologie und bewerten sie kritisch.
    • Im zweiten Block ziehen Sie auf der Grundlage von epidemiologischen Daten Rückschlüsse auf die Bedeutung und die Kontrollmöglichkeiten von Krankheiten und Gesundheitsproblemen.
    1. Dates: 26.06.2023 – 05.07.2023
    2.  Course dates: 27 June - 29 June 2022 und 4 - 6 July 2020
    3. Registration: 12.02.2023
    4. Location: Institut für Epidemiologie, Biostatistik und Prävention, Universität Zürich
    5. Facilitator: Jack Calford, Rolf Heusser 
    6. Topics: Epidemiology
  • Science Communication in the Post-COVID19 Era

    Description:

    The Summer School "Science Communication In The Post-COVID-19 Era" aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the key principles and strategies of science communication in the current global context. The program will cover a range of topics, including writing and storytelling for a lay audience, curating dialogues for impact, navigating fake news and alternative facts, risk communication and community engagement, the relationship between science and society, the neural basis of decision-making and strategies for building strong public relations between between politics and academic institutions. The course will be led by some of the leading experts in the field of science communication, including Pulitzer Prize winner Prof. Deborah Blum, Dr. Margaret Harris, spokesperson for the World Health Organization, Dr. Ana Godinho, Head of Communication at CERN, and other knowledgeable experts.

    1. Dates: 26.06.2023 – 01.07.2023
    2. Registration: 15.04.2023
    3. Location: University of Geneva
    4. Facilitator: Massimo Caine, Christoph Renner 
    5. Topics:
  • Inequality and Inequity in Health and Health Care

    The course is intended for PhD students and other researchers interested in the quantitative analysis of inequality and inequityin health and health care. It consists of five days of lectures and computing laboratory sessions on a number of topics related tothe measurement and explanation of inequalities in health and health care. Apart from providing a general introduction to the range of approaches available to researchers, it also provides practical guidance on various issues of computation. Illustrative examplesdraw on analyses conducted of OECD and developing countries. Students are assessed on their completion of a practical exerciseof data analysis.

    Objetives:
    • To give students understanding of approaches to the measurement of health inequality and inequity employed in economics and other disciplines
    • To make students competent in the computation of health inequality measures using Stata
    • To motivate students to conduct their own research into health inequalities
    1. Dates: 01.07.2023 – 01.07.2023
    2. Location: Lausanne
    3. Facilitator: Tom Van Ourti, Owen O’Donnell 
    4. Topics: Health Economics, Learning Health Systems
    1. Dates: 03.07.2023 – 28.07.2023
    2. Location: University of Geneva
    3. Facilitator: François Grey 
    4. Topics:
  • Leveraging Innovative Technologies for Ageing Well: a Transdisciplinary Training

    Objectives:

    • acquire a strong theoretical basis on QoL and HRQoL on the ageing population nowadays, in order to better understand the ways to improve them through assistive technology.
    • acquire a strong understanding of the constraints but also the opportunities related to active and passive data sensing on the ageing population.
    • become familiar with and gain insights into the functioning and implications of designing, implementing, and evaluating assistive technologies (sensing and actuating devices and services) for an ageing population.
    • understand ethical considerations to be addressed while working with assistive technology for an ageing population and the importance of data governance.
    1. Dates: 03.07.2023 – 07.07.2023
    2. Registration: 15.04.2023
    3. Location: University of Geneva
    4. Facilitator: Katarzyna Wac 
    5. Topics:
  • Introduction Into Multilevel Modelling of Clustered Data

    Description:

    Real data are often clustered such as repeated measurements on the same
    subject or measurements in grouped subjects (e.g. family or school
    studies). Failure to allow for clustering results in erroneous standard errors
    and confidence intervals. The aim of the course is to provide participants
    with an under-standing of the basic concepts and general techniques in the
    analysis of clustered data. Valid analysis methods appropriate for clustered
    data will be introduced. The course software will be Stata, although R may
    also be used. Main concepts to be covered include: clustering, random
    intercept, random slope, linear and logistic random-effects models
    (multilevel models, mixed models, hierarchical models), robust standard
    errors, generalized estimating equations (GEE), modelling strategy, model diagnostics.

    1. Dates: 05.07.2023 – 07.07.2023
    2. Registration: 05.06.2023
    3. Location: Swiss TPH, University of Basel
    4. Facilitator: Martin Röösli 
    5. Topics:
  • Financial Budgeting, Accounting and Reporting

    In most organisations, financial management skills tend to be concentrated in a small core of financial experts. In many small organisations and in the public sector, employees are given responsibilities in financial management for which they have not been trained. This module addresses the basics of the financial cycle from budgeting, implementing and recording, trough to financial reporting. Students will get an in-depth look at the workings of bookkeeping, reporting, internal controlling, financial management of physical assets and stocks, and auditing. They will also learn to extract and use relevant information from the financial management system to make key decisions.

    1. Dates: 14.08.2023 – 12.11.2023
    2. Registration: 04.08.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel and ONLINE (Hybrid)
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics: Transferable Skills, Health Services Administration
  • Systematik und Leistungsrecht der Unfallversicherung, Kausalität, Grundaspekte des Haftpflichtrechts, Schädelhirntraumata, Haftpflicht in der Medizin, juristische Literatursuche

    Beschreibung:

    Das dritte Vertiefungsmodul ist rechtlichen Themen und deren Verknüpfung mit der Medizin gewidmet. Die relevanten Leistungsfragen des Unfallversicherungs- und Haftpflichtrechts werden vertieft erarbeitet. Vermittelt werden die grundsätzliche Unterscheidung der Schadenausgleichssysteme Haftpflicht – Privatversicherung - Sozialversicherung. Die Abwicklung von Haftpflichtfragen bei medizinischen Behandlungen und Darstellung von Traumafolgen werden mit konkreten Anwendungsfragen praxisnah vermittelt. Die praktische Bedeutung der Unfallversicherung wird anhand ihrer systematischen Ausgestaltung und der Rechtsprechung dargestellt. Für die Versicherungsmedizin zentrale Konstrukte wie Zumutbarkeitsprinzip, Kausalität, Beweismass werden fundiert bearbeitet und ethisch reflektiert. Ziel ist, dass die Teilnehmenden in der Lage sind in der Praxis bei Unfall- und Haftpflichtfällen sicher tätig zu sein, die Abgrenzung von Krankheit und Unfall korrekt vornehmen können und das Risiko von Sekundärschädigungen durch die Schadensabwicklung minimieren können. Die Teilnehmenden haben einen Überblick über die Koordination der Schadenausgleichssysteme. Sie verstehen den medizinischen Beitrag als Grundlage zur Anwendung des rechtlichen Zumutbarkeits- und Kausalitätsprinzips. Sie können eine fundierte ethische Diskussion zur Begründung/ Begrenzung des Sozialstaates führen.

    1. Dates: 14.08.2023 – 18.08.2023
    2. Location: University of Basel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Social media in global health: potentialities, risks, and new developments

    Learning objectives
    By the end of the course participants will be able to:
    Describe the underlying mechanisms that make social media “persuasive” and powerful;
    Characterize and differentiate the ways in which social media are used in the context of public health;
    Outline the evidence that underpins these practices;
    Describe the risks and challenges linked to social media use;

    Illustrate different forms and opportunities of embedding conversational AI in social mobile media channels.

    1. Dates: 16.08.2023 – 17.08.2023
    2. Location: Online
    3. Facilitator: Christoph Pimmer, Neira Budiono 
    4. Topics:
    1. Dates: 17.08.2023 – 19.08.2023
    2. Location: Universite de Neuchatel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Basic Biostatistics

    In this module you learn:

    • how to transparently describe data that was collected for a given study. In addition you learn how to make inferences and draw conclusions that go beyond the current data set and make statements about the underlying population of interest. Furthermore, the information in the data set has to be condensed and presented in an understandable fashion. For this
    • you reduce data by calculating group level quantities (like means, risks etc)
    • you quantify and interpret the amount of statistical uncertainty in your data, mostly by using 95% confidence intervals
    • you make the first steps in using a statistical software (Stata) for data description, data transformation and simple statistical analyses (you will receive a temporary Stata license for this)
    • you communicate appropriately the results obtained
    • you translate specific questions into relevant statistical quantities of interest
    1. Dates: 21.08.2023 – 29.08.2022
    2.  Course dates: 22 - 24 August 2022 and 29 and 30 August 2022.
    3. Registration: 12.02.2023
    4. Location: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
    5. Facilitator: Marcel Zwahlen 
    6. Topics: Epidemiology, (Bio)Statistics
  • Strategic Planning for Health Intervention

    In this module, students use case studies and decision-analytic modelling approaches to design a health programme: conducting a situation analysis and setting priorities for interventions that are consistent with existing national health policies in resource constraint countries. It covers salient topics such as analysing the problem, developing log frames, setting indicators and monitoring and evaluation.

    1. Dates: 21.08.2023 – 19.11.2023
    2. Registration: 11.08.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics: Global / International Health, Health Promotion and Prevention
  • NCD control in a global health perspective: Public health and health systems strengthening approaches

    Learning objectives:

    By the end of the course participants will:


    • Know effective, efficient, equitable and sustainable approaches for NCD prevention and control, with a focus on middle-and low-income countries;
    • Be aware of major cost-effective and affordable public health interventions for the prevention and control of NCDs and relate them with multi-sectoral interventions and health system strengthening;
    • Be aware of the critical elements and successful approaches to strengthen health systems to deliver NCD services;
    • Identify the rationale, benefits, and resources needed for implementing, respectively, the “public health” approach versus the “health services” approach for the prevention and control of NCDs.
    1. Dates: 21.08.2023 – 23.08.2023
    2. Location: Lugano
    3. Facilitator: Pascal Bovet, Kaspar Wyss 
    4. Topics:
  • Participatory Methods: Community-based participatory methods in public health

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course participants will:


    • Understand why and for which purposes community-based participatory methods are useful;
    • Understand key concepts, methods, and applications of community-based participatory methods;
    • Understand how to apply community-based participatory methods in health programmes;
    • Understand which participatory methods are appropriate for community-based interventions;
    • Be able to critically assess the strengths and limitations of community-based participatory methods in public health.
    1. Dates: 21.08.2023 – 23.08.2023
    2. Location: Lugano and online (Hybrid)
    3. Facilitator: Amalia Pesantes, Nadina Luca 
    4. Topics:
  • Systems Modeling: Strategic public health policy and planning in times of uncertainty - using systems modelling for evidence-based decision making

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course participants will:


    • Be familiar with the concepts, methods and applications of systems modelling and simulation in the context of public health;
    • Be able to define and describe the modelling methods, including their appropriate use for answering different questions;
    • Understand the value of systems modelling and simulation in the global health toolkit;
    • Be able to build, calibrate, and run simple and intermediate level prototype models using off the shelf software and conduct scenario testing;
    • Understand the value of participatory approaches to model development.
    1. Dates: 21.08.2023 – 23.08.2023
    2. Location: Lugano and online (Hybrid)
    3. Facilitator: Adam Skinner, Jo-An Occhipinti 
    4. Topics:
  • Humanitarian Logistics: Responding to disasters - the importance of Humanitarian Logistics

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course participants will:


    • Better understand the logistics of medical supplies (e.g., procurement, processing, storage, and distribution);
    • Gain hands-on experience with conceptualizing and modeling complex systems;
    • Be able to use a methodological framework for conceptualizing and capturing the structures generating the dynamics in supply chains;
    • Better understand the ways in which supply chain performance depends on its internal structure and operating policies.
    1. Dates: 21.08.2023 – 23.08.2023
    2. Location: Lugano and online (Hybrid)
    3. Facilitator: Paulo Gonçalves 
    4. Topics:
  • Ethics in Public Health: Identifying and navigating ethical issues in public health

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course, participants will:
    • Be familiar with several real-life ethical challenges that may arise in public health work conducted in low, middle, and high income countries;
    • Be able to critically reflect on a wide range of ethical arguments for addressing these issues, such as consequences and ethical principles;
    • Be able to critically evaluate the feasibility of different solutions in the face of real-world constraints;
    • Know how to identify an ethical issue and how to find an ethically justifiable solution based on ethical frameworks and values.
    1. Dates: 21.08.2023 – 23.08.2023
    2. Location: Lugano and online (Hybrid)
    3. Facilitator: Caroline Brall, Marta Fadda 
    4. Topics:
  • Air Pollution: Tackling Air Pollution using science for policies to protect health

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course participants will:
    • Understand properties and sources of ambient air pollution, its health effects, and the link of these effects with the burden of disease locally, regionally and globally;
    • Train and discuss how research can be linked to policy making to improve air quality and public health.
    1. Dates: 21.08.2023 – 23.08.2023
    2. Location: Lugano and online (Hybrid)
    3. Facilitator: Nino Künzli, Meltem Kutlar Joss 
    4. Topics:
  • Wealth Inequalities, Social Mobility, and Health

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course participants will:
    • Have discovered innovative ideas that can inform actions to decrease wealth inequalities and increase social mobility;
    • Know about optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people and the environment.
    1. Dates: 22.08.2023 – 22.08.2023
    2. Location: Lugano and online (Hybrid)
    3. Facilitator: Nathalie Jean-Baptiste 
    4. Topics:
  • An introduction to health economics: how should we finance and organize our health care systems

    Learning objectives

    At the end of the course participants will be able to:
    • Explain the constraints that resource scarcity places on health care decision-making;
    • Outline varied forms of funding and financial protection in the healthcare system;
    • Calculate resource capacity to meet the health needs of the population;
    • Interpret the interrelationship between health and income at the individual and national level.
    1. Dates: 23.08.2023 – 23.08.2023
    2. Location: Online
    3. Facilitator: Andrew Street 
    4. Topics:
  • Measuring health spending and results to improve health sector performance and meet strategic objectives and inform policy reforms

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course participants will:
    • Know methods and challenges for tracking expenditure in the health sector, what are common practical challenges, and why it is critical for policy dialogue/health sector reforms;
    • Get a basic understanding of methods and indicators for measuring the efficiency of the health sector, and be able to discuss practical challenges and implications for decision making;
    • Learn about provider payment systems, pros and cons of each and how these can be used to achieve strategic objectives of the health sector.
    1. Dates: 24.08.2023 – 26.08.2023
    2. Location: Lugano and online (Hybrid)
    3. Facilitator: Stefania Ilinca, Laura Di Giorgio 
    4. Topics:
  • Health Behaviors - Promoting healthy behaviors through multi-level approaches

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course participants will:
    • Know the principles of lifestyle medicine and social marketing;
    • Understand why promoting lifestyle behaviors matters (the hard evidence);
    • Know the limits of health education in helping people change behaviors;
    • Be able to design smart health promotion strategies at the intersection of multiple sectors;
    • Know how to incorporate behavior science principles and marketing strategies in health promotion programmes and policies;
    • Know how to navigate public-private partnerships in the process of behavior change.
    1. Dates: 24.08.2023 – 26.08.2023
    2. Location: Lugano and online (Hybrid)
    3. Facilitator: Mirjam Rodella Sapia, Yana Manyuk 
    4. Topics:
  • Moving forward in public health planning by learning (or not) from the past

    Learning objectives
    By the end of the course participants will be able to:
    Outline why a historical perspective can improve the quality of debate on contemporary issues and policy formation;
    Assess historical sources and historical analysis to enrich evidence-based practices and policy briefings;

    Identify differences and similarities between historical and current public health challenges and derive actions for evidence-based policy and gain a new perspective on current challenges.

    1. Dates: 24.08.2023 –
    2. Location: Lugano
    3. Facilitator: Joël Floris, Kaspar Staub 
    4. Topics:
  • Strategic Project Management

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course participants will:
    • Understand the theory underlying the methods and tools of project management (Project Charter, SMART goals, OKRs, WBS,CPM, EVM, and RM);
    • Be able to apply Project Management methods and tools in real cases, and understand their limitations;
    • Have learned from each other through class discussions and workshop assignments.
    1. Dates: 24.08.2023 – 26.08.2023
    2. Location: Lugano and online (Hybrid)
    3. Facilitator: Mariya Andreeva, Paulo Gonçalves 
    4. Topics:
  • Evaluation of occupational health interventions

    To assure effectiveness, occupational health interventions need to be subjected to evaluation. Considering the original concept of the intervention, students will analyze, evaluate, and report on the context, process, and outcomes of implemented interventions.

    Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

    • Define the scope, intended uses and primary users of evaluation results
    • Design an evaluation project, select appropriate methods, and specify data sources
    • Collect, analyze, and interpret data
    • Draw conclusions based on evaluation data and develop recommendations
    • Communicate evaluation results to the stakeholders (incl. reporting) and induce follow-up activities
    1. Dates: 28.08.2023 – 29.08.2023
    2. Registration: 30.07.2023
    3. Location: University of Zurich
    4. Facilitator: Gregor Jenny 
    5. Topics: Occupational Health, Hygiene, and Medicine
  • Writing a Study Protocol

    Researchers are required to write various types of protocols. Many researchers consider this a difficult, or even the most difficult part of the research process. Understanding the differences between various types of protocols is important. This course concentrates on the processes of writing different protocols (not on the study design), using researchers’ actual studies.


    Objectives: The goal of this course is to enable researchers to know the different types of protocols (study protocol, grant proposal, submission to ethics committees) and to get them written and sent.

    1. Dates: 28.08.2023 – 30.08.2023
    2. Registration: 22.06.2022
    3. Location: University of Bern
    4. Facilitator: Nicola Low, Sven Trelle 
    5. Topics: General Scientific Skills
  • Medical decision making - A health economic perspective

    In this course, we present the theory of medical decision making from a health economics perspective. In the first part of the course, the focus is on prescriptive theory. We combine informative test theory with the expected utility hypothesis to derive thresholds for treatment decision under diagnostic and therapeutic risk. Furthermore, the cost of treatment is incorporated in the analysis. In the second part, principle-agent models will be presented which are concerned with the implementation of optimal medical decision making in the presence of asymmetric information. The focus is on financial incentives which give proper incentives to use diagnostic tests and to provide adequate treatment.

    1. Dates: 28.08.2023 – 01.09.2023
    2. Location: University of Basel
    3. Facilitator: Stefan Felder, Mathias Kifmann 
    4. Topics: Health Economics
  • Missing Data in Observational Epidemiologic Studies Including Non-detects

    Description:

    Missing data are common in real datasets. Most often data are not
    missing randomly. Also, non-participation and loss to follow-up are in
    fact (not-random) missing data problems, which can severely
    compromise a study's validity. Another form of not-random missing
    data are measurement values which are below the detection limit of a
    measurement device or diagnostic tool, which results in censored
    observations of low values.
    Failure to adequately deal with missing data produces biased results.
    The aim of the course is to provide participants with an understanding
    of the basic concepts and general techniques for dealing with missing
    data. The course software will be R. Main concepts to be covered
    include: imputation techniques for missing data, dealing with selection
    bias and lost to follow-up from the perspective of "missing data",
    censoring of data, analysis of data with measurements below the
    detection limit, tobit regression and statistical tests with censored data.

    1. Dates: 30.08.2023 – 01.09.2023
    2. Registration: 30.07.2023
    3. Location: Swiss TPH, University of Basel
    4. Facilitator: Martin Röösli, Jan Hattendorf 
    5. Topics:
  • Einführung Public Health

    Ziel: In diesem Einführungsmodul werden grundlegende Begriffe, Konzepte, Sichtweisen und Werte aus der Public-Health-Perspektive behandelt und vermittelt.

    Inhalte:
    Einführung in Definitionen und Konzepte von Public Health
    Einblick in die Versicherungssysteme im schweizerischen Gesundheitswesen
    Überblick über Finanzierung und Kosten des Gesundheitswesens in der Schweiz
    Einführung in Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention
    Überblick und das Spektrum der möglichen Massnahmen im Kontext Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention
    Einführung in relevante Werte und Theorien der Public-Health-Ethik

    Ask the expert zu einem Public Health relevanten Thema

    1. Dates: 04.09.2023 – 06.09.2023
    2. Registration: 04.07.2023
    3. Location: Institut für Epidemiologie, Biostatistik und Prävention, Universität Zürich
    4. Facilitator: Monika Bührer Skinner 
    5. Topics: Health Promotion and Prevention, Health Policy, Systems, and Management
  • Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning & Healthcare

    Description:

    This course will give a broad overview of potentials and limitations of
    machine learning and deep learning application in healthcare. After
    providing an overview of pros and cons of different approaches, and a list
    of examples of its application (both in the image and bio-signal domain),
    the student will learn the basics of using Python for data analysis,
    machine learning and deep learning. Data security and ethical issues will
    shortly be presented from different perspectives.
    The course is meant for a generic audience that includes both data
    scientists, biomedical engineers and clinicians, physicians that are

    interested in expanding their knowledge.

    1. Dates: 04.09.2023 – 08.09.2023
    2. Registration: 04.08.2023
    3. Location: online
    4. Facilitator: Francesca Faraci, Luigi Fiorillo 
    5. Topics:
  • Prognostic Research: Concepts and Models

    In the statistical sessions we will guide you through the main steps in prognostic modelling. As well as using Cox and simple parametric survival models, you will be introduced to flexible parametric survival models in Stata as a powerful tool for fitting prognostic data. We will present methods to select prognostic variables and investigate their form with fractional polynomials, compare and choose candidate models using information criteria, and validate the chosen model. We will use splines to model prognostic factors whose effect varies over follow up time and will investigate interactions between predictors. Although statistical theory will be discussed in the lectures, the emphasis will be on practical application of the statistical methods. The practicals will give you experience of selecting prognostic factors and assessing them, choosing between different models, and fitting and validating a prognostic model.

    Objectives: By the end of this course participants will have:

    • An understanding of different types of prognostic research
    • An understanding of how prognosis is used in clinical decision making and in discovering new approaches to managing patients
    • Practical experience of analysing and assessing potential prognostic factors
    • Practical experience of developing and validating a prognostic model
    • An understanding of the quality of prognostic research and how it can be improved
    1. Dates: 06.09.2023 – 08.09.2023
    2. Registration: 30.06.2022
    3. Location: University of Bern
    4. Facilitator: Matthias Egger, Georgia Salanti 
    5. Topics: (Bio)Statistics, Learning Health Systems
  • Bewertung, Vergütung und optimale Versorgung im Gesundheitswesen

    In allen Gesundheitssystemen stellt sich die Frage, wie medizinische Leistungen vergütet werden sollen. Parallel dazu bedarf die Praxis der Leistungserbringung und -finanzierung ständiger Optimierung. Neben der Gesundheitsökonomie stellen Health Technology Assessment (HTA) und die Versorgungsforschung für diese Bereiche methodische Grundlagen bereit. In diesem Modul lernen Sie mögliche Vorgehensweisen bei Vergütungsentscheidungen und bei der Preisbildung von Arzneimitteln und anderen Gesundheitsleistungen kennen. Sie explorieren zudem die Grundlagen und ökonomischen Aspekte der Versorgungsforschung. Hinsichtlich der Eignung verschiedener Optionen entwickeln Sie eigene Positionen.

    Inhalte
    • Herangehensweisen an HTA und Vergütungsentscheide im europäischen Vergleich
    • Herangehensweisen an Preisbildung bzw. Preisfestsetzung im europäischen Vergleich
    • Formen und Prinzipien der Leistungsvergütung und ihre jeweiligen Anreizwirkungen
    • Vorgehensweisen in der Schweiz: Vorteile, Nachteile und Weiterentwicklungsmöglichkeiten
    • Methoden und Datenquellen der Versorgungsforschung mit Relevanz für die Gesundheitsökonomie
    • Aktuelle Studienbeispiele der Versorgungsforschung mit ökonomischen Implikationen
    1. Dates: 11.09.2023 – 13.09.2023
    2. Registration: 11.07.2023
    3. Location: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum (WWZ), Universität Basel
    4. Facilitator: Stefan Felder 
    5. Topics: Health Policy, Systems, and Management, Health Economics
  • Introduction to the Statistical Software R

    Description:

    This course is a practical introduction to R, a free open-source software environment for statistical computing. Besides an introduction into the software, the following topics will be covered: data import and export, data manipulation, statistical analysis, graphical representation and advanced programming concepts as conditional branching and loops. Students should bring their own laptop for the practical work. In contrast to other statistical software solutions, R is designed around a true computer language. This has the implication that R is characterized by an enormous flexibility that enables the user to perform sophisticated statistical procedures or simulations. R might be less intuitive to scientists without prior programming skills. However, there are some tools available to make the user’s life easier as graphical user interfaces and editors with syntax highlighting. Participants should have basic statistical knowledge. Programming skills are not required. The first 2 days are mainly lectures and practical courses. The 3rd day is a workshop and participants are divided into groups to apply the new knowledge to their own data. Note: the 3rd day is optional. First year PhD students or other participants without own data can alternatively complete a homework assignment to get the credit points.

    1. Dates: 13.09.2023 – 15.09.2023
    2. Registration: 13.08.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel
    4. Facilitator: Jan Hattendorf 
    5. Topics:
  • Einführung in systematische Reviews und Meta-Analysen

    Systematische Reviews und Meta-Analysen geben für die Einschätzung von Risiken und der erwünschten und unerwünschten Wirkungen von Interventionen oft die bessere Evidenz als Einzelstudien. In diesem Modul lernen Sie, die methodischen Grundlagen von systematischen Reviews und Meta-Analysen kritisch zu beurteilen und ihre Anwendung zu diskutieren.

    Dazu
    • lernen Sie, die wichtigsten Quellen für Public Health relevante Reviews zu nutzen
    • beschreiben Sie die Bedeutung und Problematik von systematischen Reviews und Meta-Analysen
    • lernen Sie systematische Literatursuchen in Medline und anderen Datenbanken
    • entwickeln Sie ein Protokoll für einen systematischen Review mit Meta-Analyse
    • führen Sie eine Meta-Analyse durch
    • beurteilen Sie kritisch die Qualität von Reviews
    1. Dates: 13.09.2023 – 15.09.2023
    2. Registration: 12.02.2023
    3. Location: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
    4. Facilitator: Matthias Egger, Georgia Salanti 
    5. Topics: General Scientific Skills, Learning Health Systems
  • Einführung in systematische Reviews und Meta-Analysen

    Systematische Reviews und Meta-Analysen geben für die Einschätzung von Risiken und der erwünschten und unerwünschten Wirkungen von Interventionen oft die bessere Evidenz als Einzelstudien. In diesem Modul lernen Sie, die methodischen Grundlagen von systematischen Reviews und Meta-Analysen kritisch zu beurteilen und ihre Anwendung zu diskutieren.

    Dazu
    • lernen Sie, die wichtigsten Quellen für Public Health relevante Reviews zu nutzen
    • beschreiben Sie die Bedeutung und Problematik von systematischen Reviews und Meta-Analysen
    • lernen Sie systematische Literatursuchen in Medline und anderen Datenbanken
    • entwickeln Sie ein Protokoll für einen systematischen Review mit Meta-Analyse
    • führen Sie eine Meta-Analyse durch
    • beurteilen Sie kritisch die Qualität von Reviews
    1. Dates: 13.09.2023 – 15.09.2023
    2. Registration: 13.07.2023
    3. Location: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
    4. Facilitator: Georgia Salanti, Matthias Egger 
    5. Topics: General Scientific Skills, Learning Health Systems
    1. Dates: 13.09.2023 – 15.09.2023
    2. Location: Universite de Neuchatel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
    1. Dates: 13.09.2023 – 15.09.2023
    2. Location: Universite de Neuchatel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Grundlagen der Gesundheitswissenschaft und Sozialepidemiologie

    Der Besuch dieses Moduls befähigt Sie, Entstehungs- und Verlaufsprozesse von Gesundheit und Krankheit in der Bevölkerung unter Berücksichtigung kultureller, sozialer und psychologischer Einflussfaktoren zu beschreiben. Hierbei wenden Sie gesundheits- und sozialwissenschaftliche Theorien und Konzepte an. Dazu

    • formulieren Sie Public-Health-Fragestellungen zu Entstehung und Verlauf von Gesundheit und Krankheit
    • ziehen Sie relevante gesundheits- und sozialwissenschaftliche Theorien und Konzepte zur Beschreibung und Erklärung von Problem- und Aufgabenstellungen im Bereich Public Health bei
    • verstehen und analysieren Sie das Zusammenwirken verschiedener Faktoren, die die Entstehung und den Verlauf von Gesundheit und Krankheit beeinflussen
    • verbinden Sie erkenntnisleitend Public-Health-Fragestellungen mit gesundheits- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Theorien und Konzepten.
    Inhalte
    • Gesundheits- und sozialwissenschaftliche Paradigmen, Modelle, Theorien und Konzepte von Gesundheit und Krankheit, ihre Entstehung und ihre Bedingungen (Salutogenese, biopsychosoziales Modell, Theorien der sozialen Ungleichheit, soziokulturelle Einflussfaktoren)
    • Sozialepidemiologische Grundlagen zur (sozial-)räumlichen und zeitlichen Verteilung von Gesundheit und Krankheit (Altersdemografie, Schichtzugehörigkeit)
    • Soziale und personale Bedingungen von Gesundheit und Krankheit (gesundheitsrelevante Lebensstile, soziales und kulturelles Kapital, Gesundheitskompetenz, Gesundheitsverhalten)
    1. Dates: 18.09.2023 – 20.09.2023
    2. Registration: 18.07.2023
    3. Location: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
    4. Facilitator: Thomas Abel 
    5. Topics: Social Sciences in Public Health
  • Systemvergleich Gesundheitsversorgung und Versicherungswesen in Österreich, Gesundheitsversorgung in einer Metropole, aktuelle Herausforderungen “Vertiefung in Gesundheits- und Versicherungssystem und das Gutachterwesen in Österreich “

    Beschreibung:

    Im internationalen Modul an der medizinischen Universität Wien ist der Fokus auf kommunal organisierte Behandlungsketten gelegt. Die medizinische Begutachtungspraxis in Österreich und die aktuellen Herausforderungen in der Gesundheitsversorgung und in der individuellen Absicherung bei Krankheit, Unfall und Invalidität werden in der vertieften Auseinandersetzung nähergebracht. Ziel des internationalen Moduls in Wien ist es, durch das Kennenlernen von anderen Modellen und Perspektiven die Innovations- und Gestaltungskompetenz der Studierenden zu erhöhen und im Rahmen der EU-Personenfreizügigkeit die Systeme der Nachbarländer besser zu kennen, sowie Netzwerkkontakte nach Österreich aufzubauen.

    1. Dates: 18.09.2023 – 23.09.2023
    2. Location: Medizinische Universität Wien
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Causal inference for population health sciences

    Objectives:

    Students will:
    • understand the setting for which causal inference is warranted and
    the framework for potential outcomes
    • understand the difference between causal estimands, estimators,
    and estimates
    • understand how to generate and interpret a directed acyclic graph
    • understand hypotheses underlying the identification of causal
    effects,
    • identify the most suitable methods to answer different research
    questions,
    • run basic analyses with the methods presented

    1. Dates: 18.09.2023 – 22.09.2023
    2. Registration: 18.08.2023
    3. Location: Swiss TPH, Allschwil
    4. Facilitator: Tracy Glass, Giusi Moffa 
    5. Topics:
  • Management of health in organizations

    In this module, students learn to manage work and health activities and define key health indicators.Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

    • Select and implement an absence and case management system
    • Design and implement a health campaign/event to foster individual health behavior change
    • Write a health report for an organization
    • Integrate organizational health as a central value in the culture of an organization
    1. Dates: 25.09.2023 – 28.09.2023
    2. Registration: 20.08.2023
    3. Location: University of Zurich
    4. Facilitator: Holger Dressel 
    5. Topics: Occupational Health, Hygiene, and Medicine
  • Foundations of International Health Management

    In this module, students get an overview of the building blocks of international and global health – components that they will explore in greater details throughout the MBA-IHM programme. The importance of health systems and health systems thinking is introduced and students are trained to critically apply the basic concepts, methods and tools for collecting, analysing and interpreting qualitative data. Students will work with case studies in diverse teams and consider how to lead, communicate and motivate across cultures and borders.

    1. Dates: 25.09.2023 – 29.09.2023
    2. Registration: 10.02.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel and ONLINE (Hybrid)
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics: Global / International Health, Health Policy, Systems, and Management
  • Foundations of Public Health Sciences

    Description:

    Public health is “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life,
    and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed
    choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and
    individuals.” — CEA Winslow (CDC, 2021).
    But what constitutes public health sciences? This course is foundational
    for all those seeking a doctorate in any of the fields of public health
    sciences. Concept, definition, and history of public health, population
    health sciences, and applied public health will be addressed. It introduces
    students to basics of public health surveillance, population health
    monitoring, and prevention sciences.
    Our aim is to make sure that all public health graduates can understand
    how their specific focus fits within the broader and interdisciplinary
    nature of public health sciences and can communicate about public health

    sciences with health scientists and public health stakeholders.

    1. Dates: 25.09.2023 – 29.09.2023
    2. Registration: 25.08.2023
    3. Location: Day 1 and Day 2: September 21 (Thu) and 22 (Fri), University of Lugano Day 3 and Day 4: September 27 (Wed) and 28 (Thu), University of Fribourg
    4. Facilitator: Arnaud Chiolero, Suzanne Suggs 
    5. Topics:
  • Risk policy, management, and communication

    Occupational hygiene specialists should understand human risk perception and risk behavior, legal boundary conditions for chemicals handling, and risk management. This course will introduce students to human risk perception, the applications of Swiss legal framework in work and health, and the training of workers in the application of safety rules.

    Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:


    • Apply current national and international regulatory systems (e.g. REACH, MSDS)
    • Apply OEL values and substance documentation for further interpretation of measurement data
    • Write risk assessment reports according to recipients’ expectations and regulations
    • Communicate critical results to organizations and community («breaking bad news»)
    1. Dates: 02.10.2023 – 05.10.2023
    2. Registration: 30.08.2023
    3. Location: University of Lausanne
    4. Facilitator: David Vernez 
    5. Topics: Occupational Health, Hygiene, and Medicine, Learning Health Systems
  • Epidemiological concepts, principals, and methods: A practice-oriented introduction

    Description:

    Epidemiology is the branch of medical sciences that investigates the
    distribution of health-related states and events in specified populations
    (community, institutions [schools], city, state, country, region, continent,
    worldwide). Epidemiology also includes the assessment of any intervention
    applied to remediate a health problem.
    In this introductive course, we will treat the following topics


    • Definition, objectives and objects of modern epidemiology (i.e., types of outcomes and their determinants/exposures).
    • Validity and precision of exposure and outcome
    • Study designs and association measures
    • Causal framework and the role of chance and bias in epi-studies
    • Principles of good study design and protocol drafting
    • Different concepts will be introduced using contemporary examples from exposure-oriented (nutritional, occupational and environmental epidemiology) and outcome-oriented epidemiology (i.e., communicable and non-communicable diseases and clinical epidemiology).
    • To assimilate these notions, students will be stimulated to precise/redefine their original research question and hypotheses considering the study design appropriate in their chosen context.
    1. Dates: 02.10.2023 – 06.10.2023
    2. Registration: 02.09.2023
    3. Location: Unisanté
    4. Facilitator: Guseva Canu Irina, Rohrmann Sabine 
    5. Topics:
  • Practice-Oriented Project - POP

    In this course, students are equipped with project planning and project management tools and resources as they develop a small project that could be implemented at their workplace or other organisation. The project is an exercise in transferring students’ knowledge and experience to a practical setting. Students are encouraged to implement the project, at least parts of it, in a real world situation.

    1. Dates: 02.10.2023 – 17.01.2024
    2. Registration: 22.09.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) - Basel and ONLINE (Hybrid)
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics:
  • Social Science Research Methods in Public Health

    With this module, students will learn how to design a research project to address a public health issue. The major stages of the research process - ie research design, data collection and data analysis - will be examined, through concrete examples and personal work. Upon completion of the module, students will be able to:

    • Formulate a relevant research question
    • Select an appropriate data collection method
    • Define an appropriate sample
    • Plan data collection
    • Select an appropriate data analysis method
    Content:
    • Characteristics of good research questions
    • Quantitative and qualitative social science research methods
    • Sampling issues (types of sampling, recruitment of participants)
    • Ethical issues related to field work
    • Data collection methods (individual interviews and focus groups, questionnaire)
    • Data analysis methods (statistical analysis, content analysis)
    • Feasibility of a planned project with respect to available resources (time, staffing, budget)
    1. Dates: 09.10.2023 – 11.10.2023
    2. Registration: 09.08.2023
    3. Location: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern; University of Geneva
    4. Facilitator: Kristen Gray Jafflin, Stéphane Cullati 
    5. Topics: Social Sciences in Public Health
  • Communication, Marketing and Social Media - CMSM

    Many of the significant challenges health professionals and managers face in public health involve convincing
    individuals to change and adopt behaviors and decision making processes. The mere dissemination of information
    is often insufficient to convince people to take action. In addition, the growing spread of misinformation,
    disinformation, conspiracy theories, and rumors through online platforms has become a major challenge in public
    health activities. The course will introduce participants to social and behavioural communication and change principles, as well as to social marketing approaches in LMICs in practice. Aspects of health communication in classic media and in digital and social media will be discussed.

    1. Dates: 09.10.2023 – 07.01.2024
    2. Registration: 29.09.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) - Basel and ONLINE (Hybrid)
    4. Facilitator:  
    5. Topics:
  • Epidemiological data analysis strategy

    Description:

    This 5-day in-person course, comprising a mix of lectures and hands-on
    practicals, is designed for students who wish to learn about strategies for
    epidemiological data analyses. The course will cover framing the research
    question and translating this into an appropriate study design, the
    principles of statistical modelling including the choice of model and
    interpreting the output, model building strategies, and key concepts of
    confounding and effect modification. We will guide the learning through
    real-life examples. The focus will be on analysis strategies, not the
    execution of the analysis. However, the course will cover interpretation of
    results from statistical models in order to consolidate students’
    understanding of the models, inform their choices in analysis strategies,
    and gain experience in reporting model results. No particular statistical
    analysis software will be required, but practical examples will be

    demonstrated using software such as Stata or R.

    1. Dates: 16.10.2023 – 20.10.2023
    2. Registration: 16.09.2023
    3. Location: Swiss TPH , University of Basel
    4. Facilitator: Fiona Vanobberghen, Tracy Glass 
    5. Topics:
  • Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis: a Practical Approach

    Many researchers will have to do one or several systematic reviews, and some will also want to combine results from several studies in meta-analysis. This intensive 3-day course will cover the principles and practical steps of systematic reviews, including the design and conduct of comprehensive literature searches, data extraction and presentation, assessment of bias in the included studies, synthesis of data and examination of publication bias and other biases. The statistical methods for combining results in meta-analysis will also be covered and the course will include practical exercises in R.


    Objectives: To enable participants to conduct systematic reviews and meta-analyses as part of their work, under the supervision of experienced reviewers.

    1. Dates: 18.10.2023 – 20.10.2023
    2. Registration: 17.08.2022
    3. Location: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), Bern
    4. Facilitator: Georgia Salanti, Matthias Egger 
    5. Topics: General Scientific Skills, Epidemiology
  • Qualität und Sicherheit im Gesundheitswesen

    Qualität und Sicherheit der Gesundheitsversorgung haben eine zentrale Bedeutung für moderne Gesundheitssysteme. Die Analyse und Steuerung der Qualität und Sicherheit betreffen einzelne Leistungserbringer (z.B. Spitäler), werden aber auch auf strategischer Gesamtsystemebene und aus Public-Health-Perspektive diskutiert. Im Zentrum dieses Modules stehen ein umfassendes Verständnis der Rahmenbedingungen von Qualität und Sicherheit. Die Teilnehmenden lernen Konzepte und Methoden zur Analyse, Bewertung und Verbesserung von Qualität und Patientensicherheit kennen und beurteilen. Interventionen und Strategien zur Verbesserung der Patientensicherheit in verschiedenen Bereichen und auf verschiedenen Ebenen des Gesundheitssystems werden vorgestellt und diskutiert.

    Inhalte


    • Methoden zur Erfassung, Analyse und Bewertung von Qualität und Sicherheit
    • Entstehung von Fehlern, Systemtheorie und Human factors
    • Komponenten, Messung und Förderung einer Qualitäts-/Sicherheitskultur
    • Interventionen und Strategien zur Verbesserung der Patientensicherheit
    • Patienten-Empowerment im Hinblick auf Qualität und Patientensicherheit
    • Qualität und Sicherheit als public-health-relevante Gerechtigkeitsfragen
    • Steuerung von Qualität und Sicherheit über Anreizsysteme
    1. Dates: 18.10.2023 – 20.10.2023
    2. Registration: 18.08.2023
    3. Location: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
    4. Facilitator: David Schwappach 
    5. Topics: Health Policy, System and Management, Health System Research
  • Writing better, faster scientific papers in English: A structured method for non-native English speakers (advanced module)

    Objectives:

    Students will learn strategies and master tools that will help them
    structure their paper-writing process from beginning to end.
    Students will produce a first or second draft of a paper manuscript (depending on their starting point).

    1. Dates: 23.10.2023 – 27.10.2023
    2. Registration: 23.09.2023
    3. Location: online
    4. Facilitator: Kali Tal, Julia Bohlius 
    5. Topics:
  • Umwelt und Gesundheit

    In diesem Kurs analysieren Sie komplexe Problemstellungen aus dem Themenbereich Umwelt und Gesundheit aus der Public-Health-Perspektive und setzen sich mit den besonderen Schwierigkeiten bei der entsprechenden Forschung auseinander. Dazu

    • interpretieren Sie die umweltepidemiologische Forschung und bewerten diese hinsichtlich ihrer gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen aus individueller und aus Public-Health-Sicht
    • führen Sie eine Gesundheitsrisikoabschätzung zu einem bestimmten Umweltthema durch
    • diskutieren und erfahren Sie, wie Sie sich als Public-Health-Experte hinsichtlich der Prävention oder Begrenzung von gesundheitlichen Umweltschäden einbringen können
    Inhalte
    • Gesundheit und Lärm, Luftschadstoffe, Radon, ionisierende und nicht-ionisierende Strahlung
    • Gesundheit und Klimawandel
    • Umweltepidemiologische Studiendesigns
    • Kausalität bei beobachtenden Studien
    • Methoden zur Einschätzung von Umweltexpositionen in der Bevölkerung
    • nationale und internationale Datenquellen im Bereich Umwelt und Gesundheit
    • Gesundheitsrisikoabschätzung (Impact Assessment): Methoden zur Quantifizierung gesundheitlicher Auswirkungen von Umweltschadstoffen auf individueller und gesellschaftlicher Ebene
    1. Dates: 23.10.2023 – 16.11.2023
    2. Registration: 23.08.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel; University of Basel
    4. Facilitator: Martin Röösli, Martina Ragettli 
    5. Topics: Environmental Health Sciences
    1. Dates: 25.10.2023 – 27.10.2023
    2. Location: Universite de Neuchatel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Introduction to Health Economics

    Objectives:

    After the course participants will have a solid basic understanding of:

    • Key theoretical and empirical approaches of health economics as well as policy and health technology assessment
    • Economic intuition and theory which helps students understand physician and patient behaviour, the organization of health insurance and hospital markets, and government policy related to healthcare provision and financing
    • Empirical strategies used by economists (econometrics, causal inference, machine learning, experiments, etc.), as well as health technology assessment (cost-effectiveness analysis, decision-analytic modelling, etc.)
    • How to judge and constructively criticize empirical evidence in economics and related fields
    • The topics researchers currently work on in the field of health economics
    1. Dates: 30.10.2023 – 03.11.2023
    2. Registration: 30.09.2023
    3. Location: University of Lausanne, Campus Dorigny
    4. Facilitator: Joachim Marti, Armando N. Meier 
    5. Topics:
  • Interdisciplinary group project

    You will investigate and work on a real-practice problem together with your colleagues from the other two DAS Work+Health specializations and the company’s project owner. In this module, you will apply all you have learned so far, incorporating it into your interdisciplinary project. You will establish roles and responsibilities in your project group, and make your project a success for you and the company concerned.

    Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:


    • Translate customer needs and orders into a structured workplace analysis
    • Foster interdisciplinary cooperation and teamwork among occupational health specialists
    • Communicate assessment results and recommendations to different target groups and
    individuals

    1. Dates: 30.10.2023 – 31.10.2023
    2. Location: University of Zurich
    3. Facilitator: Sven Hoffmann 
    4. Topics:
  • GIS for Public Health

    Description:

    The physical and social environment that surrounds us plays an important
    part in our health and wellbeing. The geography concept of ‘place’ thus
    cannot be ignored in public health. Whether investigating the level of
    environmental pollution, access to recreation or health services, or the
    patterns or spread of disease, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
    provide the standard platform for exploring spatial attributes and
    relationships between our environment and health.
    This course offers an introduction to GIS and how it is used in public health
    and epidemiological research, with a focus on exposure assessment. It will
    introduce students to the basics including: working with and integrating
    spatial and non-spatial data; geographic scale and spatial precision;
    projections; geocoding; visualisation; thematic mapping; and
    understanding spatial relationships. Specific skills and tools will also be
    introduced in relation to methods for route analysis and for spatial linkage
    of exposure, contextual and confounder information for epidemiological or
    health risk assessment studies. Students will apply their new skills in a case
    study based either on their own data or on available datasets for defined
    topics.
    This course will be a mix of lectures, demonstrations and plenty of practical
    time for hands-on data analysis in industry standard GIS (ArcGIS, QGIS, R).
    No prior knowledge of GIS is required, though completion of pre-course
    work is essential preparation for this intensive course.

    1. Dates: 06.11.2023 – 10.11.2023
    2. Registration: 06.10.2023
    3. Location: Basel (University of Basel or Swiss TPH)
    4. Facilitator: Danielle Vienneau, Kees de Hoogh 
    5. Topics:
  • From Evidence to Implementation and Evaluation in Public Health

    This module introduces public health decision-makers to the process of implementing new evidence on health interventions, the monitoring and the evaluation of public health programmes.

    Specifically, the course aims
    • to discuss the process of reviewing and implementing new evidence on health interventions
    • to argue factually the use of randomized controlled trials or alternative study designs for the evaluation of new and existing public health interventions
    • to plan the monitoring of routine health programmes
    Finally, the course intends also to address the following issues:
    • Ethical arguments
    • Study designs and evaluation
    • Propose and discuss critically alternative options for program monitoring and evaluation
    1. Dates: 06.11.2023 – 07.11.2023
    2. Registration: 12.02.2023
    3. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel; University of Basel
    4. Facilitator: Manuel Hetzel 
    5. Topics: Health Policy, Systems, and Management, General Scientific Skills
  • Gesundheitsökonomische Modellierung - Hands-on

    Die ökonomische Beurteilung von Gesundheitsleistungen im Rahmen von Kosten-Effektivitäts- und Budget Impact-Analysen erfordert regelmässig den Einsatz von Modellen. Auch für andere gesundheitsrelevante Fragestellungen kommen Modellierungstechniken zum Einsatz. In diesem Modul lernen Sie, einfache gesundheitsökonomische Modelle selbst zu erarbeiten und zu analysieren.


    Inhalte
    • Kurze Einführung in die Prinzipien von Kosten-Effektivitäts- und Budget Impact-Analysen
    • Konzeption von Kosten-Effektivitätsmodellen
    • Entscheidungsbäume und Markov-Modelle
    • Modellentwicklung und -analyse praktisch
    • Umgang mit Variabilität: Kohortensimulation versus Mikrosimulation
    • Umgang mit Unsicherheit: Sensitivitäts- und Szenarioanalysen
    • Prinzipien der Ermittlung erforderlicher Datenpunkte
    • Nutzung von Administrativdaten und Registerdaten
    • Besonderheiten der Modellierung von Präventions- und Screening-Massnahmen
    • Überblick über weitere Modellierungstechniken: Discrete event simulation, Disease transmission models
    • Limitationen von Modellen
    1. Dates: 13.11.2023 – 21.11.2023
    2. Registration: 13.09.2023
    3. Location: University of Basel
    4. Facilitator: Matthias Schwenkglenks 
    5. Topics: Health Economics, Learning Health Systems
  • Forced migration: Sexual and Reproductive Health of Migrant Women

    Description:


    Sexual and reproductive health is a fundamental human right and critical
    component of women’s quality of life. The ramifications and challenges
    of forced displacement, migration, and resettlement complicate access
    to sexual and reproductive health for asylum seeking, refugee, and
    undocumented women and their families. Barriers to healthcare, health
    literacy, and heightened rates of sexual and gender-based violence
    (SGBV) contribute to worsened SRH health outcomes for women and
    their infants.
    The purpose of this course is to understand:
    Sexual and reproductive healthcare
    Specific SRH risks for women in forced migration (SGBV)
    Processes of forced displacement and limited access to care (in
    transit, in refugee camps and after displacement)
    Best practice models to improve SRH access and outcomes for
    women in forced migration

    1. Dates: 15.11.2023 – 17.11.2023
    2. Registration: 15.10.2023
    3. Location: Bern University of Applied Sciences in Bern
    4. Facilitator: Eva Cignacco, Ines Keygnaert 
    5. Topics:
  • Public health surveillance and population health monitoring (advanced module)

    Description:

    Public health surveillance is the ongoing and systematic collection,
    analysis, and interpretation of health-related data, closely integrated
    with their timely dissemination and communication to those responsible
    for public health strategies and action on disease prevention and control.
    Methods and tools for surveillance and population health monitoring,
    initially developed for infectious diseases and outbreak control, are now
    applied to other health conditions like chronic diseases, mental health or
    occupational and environmental health.
    With the advances in the field of data science and the growing access to
    multiple types and increasing volumes of data, the field of surveillance
    and health monitoring is going to adapt and evolve rapidly. This includes
    moving to a wider scope of applications, for example, surveillance may
    also include monitoring of risk factors associated with adverse health
    events or monitoring of health care services. This also implies using new
    methods for analyzing data, as well as tools for visualizing and
    communicating data, depending on target publics.

    1. Dates: 20.11.2023 – 23.11.2023
    2. Registration: 20.10.2023
    3. Location: Center for primary medicine and public health (Unisanté) – University of Lausanne
    4. Facilitator: Valérie Pittet, Yolanda Mueller 
    5. Topics:
  • Vertiefung Critical Reading, Cochrane Library, Grade-System, Health Technology Assessments, Medizinische Leitlinien, Systematic Reviews

    Beschreibung:

    Aufbauend auf das Modul V2 ist dieses Modul der Evidenzbasierten Medizin, der Bedeutung von Leitlinien / Health Technology Assessment sowie der Qualitätssicherung in der Begutachtung gewidmet. Die Studierenden erarbeiten sich die Prinzipien der Evidenzbasierten Medizin anhand von praktischen Beispielen. Sie lernen die GRADE-Methodik als ein integratives System zur Beurteilung der Evidenz im Gesundheitswesen und der Entwicklung von transparenten Empfehlungen für Leitlinien oder Policy-Entwicklung in Form von HTABerichten kennen. Ein Modulschwerpunkt ist die Qualitätssicherung in der Begutachtung in Form der aktualisierten Begutachtungsleitlinien sowie die funktionsorientierte Begutachtung in der Psychiatrie, mit funktionsorientiertem Interview und strukturierter Dokumentation der gutachterlichen Beurteilung mit den IFAP-Instrumenten (SNF-finanzierte RELY-Studie des EbIM).

    1. Dates: 20.11.2023 – 24.11.2023
    2. Location: University of Basel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Introduction to Statistical Software Stata® and Electronic Data Capture Software REDCap

    This course is divided in two parts:

    • Part 1 is a short introduction to the electronic data capture software REDCap, a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. The course offers a basic introduction to clinical data management and covers the basic steps involved when building up a small study database. Additionally, useful tips regarding the design of Case Reports Forms (CRFs) are provided.
    • Part 2 is a practical introduction to Stata, a statistical analysis software (www.stata.com). The following topics will be covered: data import and export, data manipulation, statistical analysis, graphical representation and an introduction on loops (repetitive tasks). We will also show how to use additional user written commands that are not “official Stata”.


    Objectives:

    • By end of part 1, students will be able to set up their own database in REDCap.
    • By the end of part 2, students will be able to run a typical Stata project: import data from text or Excel files, perform data manipulation (including using labels), save manipulated data, perform simple statistical analysis and graphical representation of the data.
    1. Dates: 23.11.2023 – 25.11.2023
    2. Registration: 23.10.2022
    3. Location: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), Bern
    4. Facilitator: Georgia Salanti, Yves Bochud 
    5. Topics: (Bio)Statistics, Epidemiology
  • Qualitative Health Research : BASIC module: Defining and developing qualitative research in public health

    Description:

    Within public health, there is a growing interest to study and understand
    human behavior, representations, and individual experiences of those
    taking part in a studied phenomenon. Qualitative designs are the method
    of choice to address those issues.

    1. Dates: 27.11.2023 – 29.11.2023
    2. Registration: 27.10.2023
    3. Location: Unisanté and Haute École de Santé Vaud, Lausanne
    4. Facilitator: Rose-Anna Foley , Christina Akré 
    5. Topics: General Scientific Skills, Social and Behavioural Sciences
  • Evidence-based Public Health using the GRADE approach

    Ziel:
    In diesem Modul lernen Sie, relevante Evidenz (und die Lücken in der Evidenz) für eine Empfehlung zu einer aktuellen Präventionsmassnahme rasch aufzufinden und anhand der GRADE Methode kritisch zu beurteilen und klar darzustellen.
    Inhalte


    Literatursuche:
    Vor- und Nachteile verschiedener Studiendesigns (ökologische Studien, Vorher-Nachher-Studien, Fallkontrollstudien, Kohortenstudien, randomisierte und nicht-randomisierte Interventionsstudien, Meta-Analysen)
    Studienqualität und Critical Appraisal (Levels of evidence, Lücken in der Evidenz, Kriterien der Kausalität, Darstellung und Interpretation der Resultate: absolute und relative Risiken, numbers needed to treat/harm/screen)
    Grundlagen von GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation)


    Methoden:
    Einführung mittels interaktiver Lehrgespräche, Vorträge und Plenumsdiskussionen
    Aufarbeitung der Evidenz mit Hilfe von GRADE und Vorbereitung einer evidenzbasierten Stellungnahme zu einem aktuellen Public-Health-Thema (z.B. Sex ohne Kondome bei behandelten HIV-Patienten, flächendeckende Einführung des Mammografie-Screenings, Verbot des Verkaufs von Alkohol an Jugendliche zwischen 21 und 7 Uhr)


    1. Dates: 27.11.2023 – 28.09.2022
    2. Registration: 07.09.2023
    3. Location:
    4. Facilitator: Myrofora Goutaki 
    5. Topics:
  • Qualitative Health Research: ADVANCED module: Appraising qualitative health research

    Description:

    Qualitative health research helps grasp behaviors and practices of patients and populations at risk, combined with the meaning health professionals and stakeholders give to their practices and actions, those both being known to underlie and influence health practices. By giving particular attention to the context of an intervention, qualitative research is particularly effective for evaluating programs and practices in the public health field. It allows to reflect on the broader health care context, with its socio- cultural and historical features.

    1. Dates: 06.12.2023 – 07.12.2023
    2. Registration: 06.11.2023
    3. Location: Unisanté and Haute École de Santé Vaud, Lausanne
    4. Facilitator: Rose-Anna Foley , Christina Akré 
    5. Topics:
  • Arbeitsmedizin/-sicherheit, Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement, Return to work, Prävention & Reintegration Schwerpunkt psychische Erkrankungen, Field Visit mit Gefährdungsanalysen

    Beschreibung:

    Diese Modulwoche zum Thema Arbeit und Gesundheit ist trinational (D-A-CH) ausgerichtet. Es wird ein Überblick über das Zusammenwirken von Arbeit und Gesundheit und der rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen, Aufgaben und Verantwortlichkeit in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz vermittelt. Nebst der traditionellen Sicht der arbeitsspezifischen Gesundheitsrisiken und deren Prävention (primär, sekundär und tertiär) steht das Reintegrationspotential von Arbeit und die demografischen und arbeitsmarktlichen Veränderungen im Fokus. Die arbeitsmedizinischen Aspekte werden durch einen Feldbesuch veranschaulicht. Ziel des Moduls ist, die Teilnehmenden zu befähigen, wirkungsorientierte Konzepte und Einzelfall-Lösungen für die Gesundheit am Arbeitsplatz, bei arbeitsmedizinischen Problemstellungen und für die Reintegration bei Krankheit und Unfall zu entwickeln.

    1. Dates: 22.01.2024 – 26.01.2024
    2. Location: University of Basel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Statistische Methoden zum Umgang mit Confounding und Interaktionen in epidemiologischen Studien

    Die Teilnehmenden lernen, wie man in der Auswertung epidemiologischer Studien anhand multivariabler Methoden Confounding identifizieren und kontrollieren und Interaktionen quantifizieren kann. Sie lernen, die Resultate solcher Auswertungen korrekt zu interpretieren und zu beschreiben.

    Inhalte
    • Unterschiedliche statistische Methoden für den Umgang mit Confounding
    • Prinzipien multivariabler Verfahren (einfache Beispiele der klassischen Regression)
    • Logistische Regression
    • Ausblick auf binomiale Regression, Poisson Regression und Überlebensanalyse
    • Darstellung und Interpretation von Ergebnissen multivariabler Analysen
    1. Dates: 31.01.2024 – 09.02.2024
    2.  Course dates: 3 - 5 February 2021 and 12 February 2021
    3. Registration: 27.09.2023
    4. Location: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel
    5. Facilitator: Jan Hattendorf 
    6. Topics: (Bio)Statistics, Epidemiology
  • Soziokulturelle Kontexte, Migration und gesundheitliche Chancengleichheit

    In diesem Modul lernen Sie Erklärungsansätze zu den Zusammenhängen zwischen soziokulturellen Kontexten und gesundheitlicher Chancengleichheit kennen und nutzen diese bei der Entwicklung von Policies, Programmen und Projekten im Bereich Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention.

    Inhalte
    • Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit: Erklärungen zu Entstehung und Reproduktion
    • Nationale Policies in der Schweiz und im Ausland
    • Erklärungsansätze für die Bedeutung des soziokulturellen Kontextes in Interventionen
    • Rahmenbedingungen für Policies, Programme und Projekte, die Chancengleichheit verbessern
    • Konzepte für Interventionen mit Chancengleichheit im Zentrum
    • Beispiele ausgewählter Interventionen
    • Barrieren und Erfolgsfaktoren für nachhaltige Interventionen
    1. Dates: 19.02.2024 – 21.02.2024
    2. Registration: 19.12.2023
    3. Location: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
    4. Facilitator: Annika Frahsa 
    5. Topics: Social and Behavioural Sciences, Migration health
  • Ein Public-Health-Problem erkennen und lösen

    In diesem Modul setzen Sie sich vertieft mit der Frage auseinander, wann und warum ein aktuelles Gesundheitsproblem überhaupt ein Public-Health-Problem ist, welche Überlegungen für die Wahl einer geeigneten Lösungsstrategie relevant sind und mit welchen Massnahmen das Problem gelöst werden kann.

    Inhalte
    • Wann ist ein Gesundheitsproblem ein Public-Health-Problem?
    • aktuelle Prinzipien der Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention
    • Strategieentwicklung
    • Spektrum der möglichen Massnahmen in Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention
    • Normen und Werte in Public Health
    • Instrumente der Qualitätssicherung und Evaluation

    1. Dates: 26.02.2024 – 22.03.2024
    2. Registration: 22.12.2023
    3. Location: Institut für Epidemiologie, Biostatistik und Prävention, Universität Zürich
    4. Facilitator: Roger Staub 
    5. Topics: Global Health, Health Promotion and Prevention
  • Medizinische Gutachten: Handwerk zur Bearbeitung komplexer Leistungsfälle in Sozial- /Privatversicherung und Haftpflicht

    Beschreibung:

    Dieses Praxistransfermodul fokussiert auf der Vermittlung des Handwerks der ärztlichen Begutachtung anhand der 12 Schritte, wie im Buch „Das Handwerk ärztlicher Begutachtung“ von Hoffmann-Richter/Jeger/Schmidt beschrieben. Dabei werden einzelne Schritte anhand von Inputreferaten und Gruppenarbeiten vertieft bearbeitet. Spezifische Themenschwerpunkte sind unter anderem Grundlagen der Motivationsdiagnostik, Objektivität in Recht und Medizin, der Begriff der Kausalität aus medizinischer und juristischer Perspektive, Selbstreflexion über die Rolle als Gutachter. Ziel des Moduls ist, dass die Teilnehmenden die Fähigkeit haben, medizinische Empfehlungen oder Gutachten zu beurteilen und als MedizinerInnen in Praxis selbst zu erstellen.

    1. Dates: 15.04.2024 – 19.04.2024
    2. Location: University of Basel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Risikobeurteilung und Risikohandling, Underwriting, Risk Management, Ethik und Diskriminierungsschutz in der Privatwirtschaft, Datenschutz, aktuelle Entwicklungen

    Beschreibung:

    Zur Versicherungsmedizin gehört die Erarbeitung von Grundlagen und die Einzelfallbeurteilungen, wie vorbestehenden Gesundheitsrisiken in einer privaten (Zusatz-) Versicherung versicherbar sein können, und wie mit Grossrisiken umzugehen ist. Im Fokus des Moduls stehen einerseits die individuelle Risikoabschätzung und Risikohandhabung für Krankheit, Invalidität und Tod. Die Teilnehmenden lernen die Versicherungsprodukte in der privaten Personenversicherung, die in der Praxis angewendeten Tools und Unterlagen, sowie deren medizinische Grundlagen und die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen kennen und anhand praktischer Fallübungen anwenden. Ziel ist, dass die Teilnehmenden in der Lage sind selber Risikoeinschätzungen vorzunehmen, die rechtliche Korrektheit des Umgangs mit der Risikoeinschätzung beurteilen können, Produkte mitentwickeln können und Konzepte im Umgang mit Grossrisiken mitgestalten können.

    1. Dates: 17.06.2024 – 21.06.2024
    2. Location: University of Basel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Kommunikation und Verhandlung: das Harvard-Konzept, Interdisziplinäre und interkulturelle Aspekte in der Medizin, Field Visit Bundesgericht, Selbstmanagement

    Beschreibung:

    Dieser Praxistransferworkshop fokussiert primär auf der Selbstkompetenz und der Kommunikationsfähigkeit der Teilnehmenden in interprofessionellen Situationen mit vielen Beteiligten in unterschiedlichen Aufgaben und Funktionen und unterschiedlichen Hintergründen. Themen können sein Arzt - Patient; Case Managerin – behandelnde Therapeuten; Versicherung – Patientenanwalt; Mediziner – Jurist; Arzt – Explorand uam. Ebenso wird wichtiges Handwerk für Führung und Management insbesondere auch zu Selbstmanagement und Umgang mit Wandel vermittelt. Persönliche Zielentwicklung, Selbstreflexion, persönliche Weiterentwicklung und Selbstorganisation werden reflektiert und eigenständig und in der Gruppe bearbeitet.

    1. Dates: 19.08.2024 – 23.08.2024
    2. Location: University of Basel
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics:
  • Systemvergleich Gesundheitsversorgung und Versicherungswesen in Deutschland, Medizinische Begutachtungen, aktuelle Herausforderungen

    Beschreibung:

    Das internationale Modul Tübingen möchte Sie mit dem System der sozialen Sicherung in Deutschland und seinen Besonderheiten vertraut machen. Das Modul vermittelt vertiefte Grund- und Übersichtskenntnisse des Gesundheits- und Versicherungssystems des Gastlandes. Ziel des internationalen Moduls in Tübingen ist es, durch das Kennenlernen von anderen Modellen und Perspektiven die Innovations- und Gestaltungskompetenz der Studierenden zu erhöhen und im Rahmen der EU-Personenfreizügigkeit die Systeme der Nachbarländer besser zu kennen, sowie Netzwerkkontakte nach Deutschland aufzubauen.

    1. Dates: 23.09.2024 – 27.04.2024
    2. Location: Tübingen
    3. Facilitator:  
    4. Topics: