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
New Horizon Europe grant for our team
Our team lead by Igor Grabovac has been successful in securing funding from the Horizon Europe programme from the European Commission looking into patient navigation in cancer prevention services for people experiencing mental-ill health in Europe. Project entiteld “CO-CAPTAIN: Cancer Prevention among Individuals with Mental-Ill Health: Co-Adapting and Implementing Patient Navigation for Primary Cancer Prevention”...
Fourth CANCERLESS Consortium Meeting took place in Madrid
Our CANCERLESS Project just passed its halfway mark and the consortium has been busy with preparations of the period 1 report to the European Commission. However, this does not stop the project from progressing further, nor the CANCERLESS Consortium to meet and discuss the progress so far and the exciting times ahead. Under the organisation...
New Public Health book out with participation from our Group
A new edition of the Public Health Textbook “Public Health: Gesundheit und Gesundheitswesen” has been published by Elsavier. This comprehensive textbook covers all the basic important aspects of public health with a special focus on issues pertaining to German speaking parts of Europe and with cooperation from authors from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Our...