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

1-Day Courses:

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.

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.

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