The SSPH+ ScienceFlashTalk promotes exciting and engaging speed-talks about public health research of SSPH+ PhD students. The aim is strengthening students’ skills to communicate their research to a broad audience. Highlight of the training is the production of a video and the public competition for a SSPH+ ScienceFlashTalk award.
18 PhD students are trained in speed-talking and will produce a video which will be studied by a jury consisting of lay and scientific people. The students of the best eight videos will compete at one of two events where the audience is the jury:
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Machteld van den Berg, PhD student at the University of Zurich Institute of Biomedical Ethics and Swiss TPH and supervised by SSPH+ Faculty member Marcel Tanner, has won the last of three events of the 2018 SSPH+ ScienceFlashTalk Award at the Swiss Public Health Conference in Neuchâtel on 7 November 2018.
Machteld convinced the audience with her 3-minute flash talk on "Addressing human realities in large scale clinical trials". In her PhD project Machteld explores the ethical implications of malaria vaccine development in three selected African countries. She uses empirical evidence gathered from 78 semi-structured interviews in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda with parents of children who were enrolled in a pediatric malaria vaccine clinical trial. By integrating these human realities into research design, large scale clinical trial research can be strengthened.
Giulia Pestoni, PhD student at the University of Zurich and supervised by SSPH+ Faculty member Sabine Rohrmann, has won the second of three events of the 2018 SSPH+ ScienceFlashTalk Award at the SSPH+ Faculty Meeting in Lausanne on 14 June 2018.
Giulia convinced the audience with her 3-minute flash talk on "What does the Swiss population eat? Characterization of food consumption and dietary patterns in the Swiss language regions". In 2014/2015, the first National Nutrition Survey (menuCH) aiming to assess the food consumption of the Swiss population was conducted allowing the analysis of dietary patters by language region as well as the finding of major determinants of a healthy diet. Giulia's study may help to further
understand differences in the prevalence of chronic diseases morbidity and mortality in Switzerland.
Furthermore, it will allow to identify population groups that are currently not meeting general dietary
recommendations and to develop more targeted public health interventions.
Bonaventure Ikediashi, PhD student at the University of Lucerne and supervised by SSPH+ Fellow Gisela Michel, has won the first of three events of the 2018 SSPH+ ScienceFlashTalk Award at the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) on 10 April 2018.
Bonaventure convinced the GHF audience with his 3-minute flash talk on "Does Sickle Cell Disease Knowledge deficits influence reported painful episodes in adolescents and adults with Sickle Cell Disease?" Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a common form of blood disorder predominantly found in Africa, India and people of African descent. People with SCD often suffer from different complications such as gall stones and painful episodes leading to frequent hospital admissions. Recent findings suggest that knowledge deficit in SCD is an important indicator of health outcomes. Bonaventure's study seeks to assess levels of knowledge deficit in parents of children, identify factors that influence knowledge and whether knowledge levels influence reported painful crises episodes.
Kateryna Chepynoga, PhD student at HEC Lausanne and supervised by SSPH+ Fellow Jürgen Maurer (HEC Lausanne) and Gabriela Flores (WHO), has won the 1st SSPH+ ScienceFlashTalk Award in Lugano on 9 June 2017. The award has been sponsored by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.
Kateryna convinced the SSPH+ faculty with her 3-minute flash talk on "Drivers of not affordable medication for chronic diseases in low- and lower-middle-income countries". Patients of low- and lower-middle-income countries are often not financially protected from health expenditures and purchase medicines out-of-pocket. By decomposing prices of drugs into components (cost of the procurement and mark-ups) Kateryna identifies what makes medicine prices to be not affordable. In particular, she detects price components, which most frequently push patients with chronic diseases into poverty, and estimates to what extent the price regulation policy, applied to these components, may improve the affordability of medicines.
