Passionate about creating healthier and more just communities.
About us
The Grabovac Group is a research group (the Community Health Lab) based at the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre for Public health, Medical University of Vienna. We are a multidisciplinary team that is passionate about creating healthier and more just communities based on implementation science and following the principles of social medicine.
Our projects
Promoting Work-based Equality
Cancer Prevention and Early Detection
De-Prescribing Pharmaceuticals for Patient Safety and Sustainable Public Health
Our team
GROUP LEADERIgor Grabovac, MD, PhD
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCHERTobias Schiffler, BSc, MSc
GRADUATE RESEARCHERCharlotte Rösel, BA, BSc
Our publications
Read our latest publication and learn more about our research.
Latest news
Igor honored by the Leadership Excellence Awards in Research
Igor Grabovac was awarded second place at the inaugural Leadership Excellence in Research Awards (LExA). For this first time this year the Career Centre of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft has established and awarded the LExA Awards to recognize outstanding leadership skills that make significant contribution in solving societal challenges and serves as role models...
Our students win prizes from the Antun Proksch Foundation
We are very happy to report that our students Alexandra Karden (PhD Student) and Julius Schmöllerl (graduate student) at the Medical University of Vienna have won the Antun Proksch Foundation prize for substance abuse research projects. They each recieve 10.000 Euros for their projects! Alexandra’s PhD project is a mixed methods evaluation study of drug...
Igor Grabovac promoted to Associate Professor
We are happy to report that our team leader, Igor Grabovac, succesfully finished the tenure track scheme at the Medical University of Vienna and was inferred the title and position of associate professor. Congratulations to Professor Grabovac!