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
Tuesday August 10, Wednesday August 11, and Friday August 13, 2021
Sibylle Obrecht Lösch | Maximilian Witz
Time slots will be confirmed soon
Free for all enrolled participants
Social media in global health: potentialities, risks, and new developments
Christoph Pimmer | Neira A. Budiono
Monday August 16 and Wednesday August 18, 2021, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, CEST
1-Day Courses:
1-Day Courses: Full Day
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
* This course is sponsored the “Swiss Center for Design and Health”
Public Mental Health: Keeping people mentally healthy
*Sponsored and taught by by the Swiss Mental Health Network
Tuesday August 24, 2021
THIS COURSE IS CANCELLED
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
Mon August 23 – Wed August 25, 13:00-15:00 (CEST)
Making sense of troubled healthcare arenas
Enrico Pavignani | Barbara Profeta
Thu August 26 – Sat August 28, 13:00-15:00 (CEST)
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 | Adela Beriša – Fazlagić
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 | Chiara Servili
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 mornings @ 9:00 (CEST) and evenings @ 17:00 (CEST)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89088922963
free and open to the public
Monday
09:00-10:00
30 years of Public Health Mutual Learning for Change in Ticino
Prof. Dr. L. Suzanne Suggs, Prof of Social Marketing at USI and Vice-President of SSPH+
Prof. Nino Künzli, Head of Bachelor-Master-Doctorate Unit, Department of Education and Training, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (SwissTPH) & Dean SSPH+
17:00-18:30
100 years of Public Health Sciences in Switzerland, 30 years in Ticino, and centuries around the globe. Lessons learned and moving forward.
1) An introductory talk
2) Plenary lecture
Learning from the past or forgetting the past? Past and present pandemics and how to prepare for future challenges
PD Dr. phil. Kaspar Staub, Head of the Anthropometrics and Historical Epidemiology Research Group, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich
3) A virtual apero celebration
Tuesday
09:00-10:00
Mental health advocacy: keeping people mentally well*
Mental Health Network of Switzerland (NPG)
* This plenary is in German/French simoultaneously translated in English.
17:00-18:00
Innoculating against vaccine misinformation
Dr. Angus Thomson PhD, Senior Social Scientist, Demand for Immunization, UNICEF
Wednesday
9:00-10:00
Wealth Inequality and Health – What are the effects in the Global South?
Dr. Nathalie Jean-Baptiste, Senior Programme Manager, Director – Wealth Inequality, Julius Baer Foundation
17:00-18:00
Making sense of troubled healthcare arenas: first steps in a tricky field
Dr. Enrico Pavignani, University of Queensland, Brisbane, and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa
Thursday
9:00-10:00
The longtail impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Wealth of nations: early findings and implications for policy research priorities
Prof. Jo-An Occhipinti, Managing Director, Computer Simulation & Advanced Research Technologies (CSART) and Head, Systems Modelling, Simulation & Data Science, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
17:00-18:00
Complexities of Health and Nutrition: The evolving role of behaviour change
Dr. Rowena Merritt, Senior Advisor on Consumer Insights and Social Marketing, Sight and Life and Research Fellow, University of Kent
Friday
9:00-10:00
Opportunities and pitfalls of digital health for health systems strengthening
Prof. Kaspar Wyss, Deputy Director and head of department, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
17:00-18:00
Improving health system efficiency and equity: the role of health economics
Prof. Dr. Joachim Marti, PhD. Associate Professor in Health Economics, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne
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