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 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!
Maren Jeleff succesfully defends her doctoral thesis
We are happy to say that our team can now boast an additional doctor. Maren Jeleff succesfully defended her doctoral thesis at the Medical University of Vienna titled “Current Topics of Infectious Diseases in Austria from a Social Science and Public Health Percpective”. Congratulations Dr Maren Jeleff!
CO-CAPTAIN First Consortium Meeting in Vienna
Our new exciting project CO-CAPTAIN – Cancer Prevention among Individuals with Mental Ill-Health: Co-adapting and Implementing Patient Navigation for Primary Cancer Prevention is on the way and last month the members of the Consortium met in Vienna to kick off the projects. During the two days in Vienna, representatives of eleven partners in the Consortium...