We are happy to report that with December 2023 we started a new European project called “Interact Europe 100”. Interdisciplinary work is a cornerstone of providing effective healthcare, but it is often difficult to implement given high specialization of different professions and disciplines, strict hierarchies or structural and systemic issues. However, proper interdisciplinary work is...
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...
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...
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!
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!
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...
A new paper published in the top journal of the Lancet Publishing Group – eClinicalMedicine – shows the first empiric results of the CANCERLESS project. The new publication lead by Tobias Schiffler, a PhD student on the CANCERLESS project, mapped out experiences of people experiencing homelessness in four European countries (Austria, Greece, Spain and the...
Tobias Schiffler wins a grant for his project “CoMitMenT”. “CoMitMenT – Co-designing strategies for physical health promotion with people living with mental ill-health” is a Vienna-based research project that aims to identify the barriers and facilitators that people with mental ill-health experience when seeking help for physical health problems within the local healthcare system. By...
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”...
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...