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Dozentin/Dozenten (80 %) / ZHAW
see job description here
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SSPH+ against the draft act on tobacco products - Media release
Die Wissenschaft fordert evidenzbasierte Gesetze und lehnt den Gesetzesvorentwurf über Tabakprodukte und elektronische Zigaretten ab. Siehe Medienmitteilung hier.
La science exige des lois fondées sur des preuves (evidence-based policy) et, par conséquent, le rejet de l’avant-projet de loi fédérale sur les produits du tabac. Voir le communiqué de presse ici.
La scienza richiede una politica basata sull'evidenza e, quindi, il rifiuto del progetto di legge federale sul tabacco. Vedi il comunicato stampa qui.
Read also:
- The SSPH+ statement (in German, French and Italian)
- The article written by the SSPH+ Directorate which has been published in the "Schweizerische Ärztezeitung / Bulletin des médecins suisses".
- Online media in Ticino on 23 March 2018
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Swiss Public Health Conference: Save the date for 2018 (Neuchatel, 7-8 November)
A successful conference on personalized health is over. We already look forward on the next conference on "Better Health Faster: Social Science Boosting Public Health" in Neuchâtel, 7-8 November 2018. Find more information on the conference website and have a look at the winners of the SSPH+ Awards for the best PhD abstract as well as the best published PhD article.
Winners of SSPH+ Awards 2017:
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Neuerscheinung | Public Health Kompakt
Die 3., vollständig aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage des praxisorientierten
Lehrbuchs Public Health (Hrsg. von Matthias Egger, Oliver Razum und Anita Rieder) bietet Studierenden einen leicht verständlichen Einstieg
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Kateryna Chepynoga wins 1st SSPH+ ScienceFlashTalk in Lugano, 9 June 2017
We are pleased to announce that 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. 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. The award has been sponsored by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Milo Puhan wins Ig Nobel Prize
We are happy to announce that our SSPH+ Fellow and Vice-president Milo Puhan, director of the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute of the University of Zurich, has won the Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that regular playing of a didgeridoo is an effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring. Congratulations!
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. Every year, in a gala ceremony in Boston the IG Nobel Prizes are awarded.
