At the SSPH+ Summer School public health professionals, researchers and graduate students learn together through mutual exchange in a stimulating and beautiful environment. The SSPH+ LSS places health, disease, and health systems thinking under one common framework of coherent concepts and practical implications. The focus on public health policy, economics and management combined with the diversity of students and facilitators has provided for a rich learning environment for over 2 decades so far. The insights gained and networks created serve as an opportunity to reduce and prevent the gap between public health theory and practice.
We will meet online this year and the programme is online. We are annoucing courses and plenaries as they are confirmed, so see below and stay tuned.
- 1 day courses
- 3-day courses
- plenary lectures on hot topics by experts each day
- daily networking activities through online poster sessions, meetings with experts and chat sessions
Courses:
Pre-Courses
Introduction to digital tools of the summer school: e-Campus, zoom, and LinkedIn
Date & Time will be confirmed soon
Free to all enrolled participants
Social media in global health: potentialities, risks, and new developments
Christoph Pimmer
Monday August 16 and Wednesday August 18, 2021, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, CEST
1-Day Courses:
1-Day Courses: Full Day
Public Mental Health: Keeping people mentally healthy
Swiss Mental Health Network
Tuesday August 24, 2021
* Course Language DE / FR translated in EN
** Discounted fee for members of the Netzwerk Psychische Gesundheit Schweiz (NPG)
An introduction to health economics: how should we finance and organize our health care systems
Andrew Street
Thursday August 26, 2021
Designing Health Care: Improving health care through Evidence-based Design
Minou Afzali | Arne Scheuermann | Stefan Sulzer
Friday August 27, 2021
1-Day “equivalent” Courses:
2 hours every day across 3 days, and plenary lectures
Is Breathing killing us? Tackling Air Pollution using science for policies to protect health
Nino Kuenzli
2 hours a day Mon August 23 – Wed August 25 , 2021
Fragile Health Systems: Making sense of troubled healthcare arenas
Enrico Pavignani | Barbara Profeta
2 hours a day Thu August 26 – Sat August 28, 2021
3-day courses
Monday-Wednesday
Each day ~6 hours between 10:30 -16:45 CEST, including both synchronous and a-synchronous lessons. For ects credits, it is required to attend at least 2 plenary lectures for each 3 day course.
Strategic Project Management
Axel Hoffmann | Bernadette Peterhans
Community-based participatory methods in public health
Nadina Luca | Amalia Pesantes
NCD control in a global health perspective: Public health and systems strengthening approaches
Kaspar Wyss | Pascal Bovet
Thursday-Saturday
Each day ~6 hours between 10:30 -16:45 CEST, including both synchronous and a-synchronous lessons. For ects credits, it is required to attend at least 2 plenary lectures for each 3 day course.
Harnessing systems modelling and simulation to guide strategic health investments and actions
Jo-An Occhipinti | Ante Prodan | Mark Heffernan | Adam Skinner
*This course is supported by the Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney.
* This course is supported by the Computer Simulation & Advanced Research Technologies (CSART).
Policy Options on Mental Health
Emiliano Albanese | Benedetto Saraceno | Marta Fadda | Dzmitry Krupchanka
Generating Demand for better public health goods and services: A systems and consumer centered approach
Rowena Merritt | Kalpana Beesabathuni | Breda Gavin-Smith | Puja Peyden Tshering
*This course is sponsored by Sight and Life
Multisectoral Approaches for Health: Implications for Policy and Practice
Carmel Williams | Nicole Valentine | Kevin Morisod
Plenary lectures:
Monday-Friday every morning and evening
The plenary lectures are being programmed into place. The ones here are confirmed, but not yet “placed” in teh schedule.
Lessons to be learned from the pandemic spread of the influenza outbreaks in Switzerland, 1889, 1918, and 1957
Kaspar Staub, Evolutionary Institute, University of Zurich
Machine learning techniques in personalized disease prediction
Ming Chang, Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel
Digital health
Prof. Kaspar Wyss, Swiss TPH
Monday
09:00-10:00
30 years of Pubic Health Mutual Learning for Change in Ticino
Prof. L. Suzanne Suggs, USI and SSPH
TBA
17:00-18:30
30 years of Pubic Health Mutual Learning for Change in Ticino
let’s celebrate our past, present and future
TBA + virtual apero
Tuesday
09:00-10:00
schedule pending:
TBA
17:00-18:00
Handling mis- and dis- information about vaccines
Dr. Angus Thomson, UNICEF
Wednesday
9:30-11:00 (in partnership with SPHC)
Introductions by Ursula Zybach and Oscar Franco
Future challenges for Public Health. Walter Ricciardi, Professor of Hygiene and Public Health, Università Catolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, President World Federation of Public Health Assocations
Joint efforts in a time of crisis. Milo Puhan, Professor and Director, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich
Public Health for the whole society. Markus Mader, Director Swiss Red Cross
17:00-18:00
Fragile Health Systems. Prof. Enrico Pavignani
Thursday
9:00-10:30 (in partnership with SPHC)
Welcome by XX and Christian Leumann
Health or Economy? Do we have to choose? – Monika Bütler
Impact of the pandemic on Mental health – Georgia Salanti
COVID’s impact on those already socially dissadvanged – Thomas Abel
17:00-18:00
TBA, soon
Friday
9:00-10:00
TBA, soon
17:00-18:00
TBA, soon



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