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Passionate about creating healthier and more just communities.
About us
The Community Health Lab (Grabovac Group) is a research group 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
Cancer Prevention and Early Detection among the Homeless Population in Europe
De-Prescribing Pharmaceuticals for Patient Safety and Sustainable Public Health
Co-Adapting and Implementing Patient Navigation for Primary Cancer Prevention
Our team
GROUP LEADERIgor Grabovac, MD, PhD
SENIOR RESEARCHERSandra Haider, BSc, MSc, PhD
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCHERTobias Fragner, BSc, MSc
Our publications
Read our latest publication and learn more about our research.
Cancer care in people experiencing homelessness: identifying key issues, challenges, and facilitators
British Journal of General Practice
Health Literacy und Empowerment für Menschen mit schweren psychischen Erkrankungen
psychopraxis. neuropraxis
Cancer risk factors and access to cancer prevention services for people experiencing homelessness
The Lancet Public Health
Latest news
Hanna successfully defends her doctorate
Our very own Hanna Mües defended her doctoral thesis “Too stressed for sex? Associations between sexual experiences, sexual behaviour, stress and stress consequences” at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Psychology under the guidance of Prof Urs Nater. We are very proud of Hanna and her achievement and are happy to report that Hanna is...
Prevention and Early Detection Cluster Meets in Vienna
Yesterday the Medical University of Vienna and our team had the great pleasure of hosting the European cluster on Cancer Prevention and Early Detection – Implementation Research for the first annual cluster meeting. Over 40 delegates from EU funded Horizon Europe projects came to Vienna to discuss important topics regarding data management and potential for...
Igor presented and participated in CUPID Training School
Igor participated in a three day training school (17. – 19.09.2024) in Prague organised by the CUPID COST Action. CUPID (Cancer-Understanding Prevention in Intellectual Disabilities) aims to establish a network of researchers and practitioners to develop guidelines and policy for cancer prevention in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Igor presented our experiences from CANCERLESS...