On April 23rd 2024, Hanna Mües held a guest lecture on “Barriers and facilitators of healthcare access for people with mental health problems” as part of the seminar “Abnormal psychology: Social cognition and clinical disorders” organised by Ekaterina Pronizius from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna at IES Vienna. IES Vienna is...
On April 9th 2024, Hanna Mües and Igor Grabovac gave a webinar on “Sexual and gender diversity – Scientific findings and relevant topics for practice”, which was organized by the Österreichischen Bundesverband für Psychotherapie (ÖBVP, engl.: Austrian Federal Association for Psychotherapy). In their talk, they outlined various determinants of health of people identifying as part...
On April 8, 2024, Honja Hama and Lisa Lehner gave a talk at one of Vienna’s Centers for Adult Education (Volkshochschule) on the social aspects of pharmaceuticals. The Social Lives of Pharmaceuticals In a 90-minute interactive talk, the “Less is More?”-team members presented some initial findings from the project, but focused on discussing with a lively audience at the Volkshochschule...
Each year on May 5th, the world and the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrate World Hand Hygiene Day. May 5th, if you showed it with your hands, would have you use all five fingers of both of your hands – emphasizing the importance of hand hygiene. For World Hand Hygiene Day 2024, Lisa Lehner gave a talk...
Igor talked about his research on sexuality and sex in older adults and his new book on the “Our Better Half” podcast in an episode called: Sex Research: Beyond Dysfunction and Towards Pleasure. The podcast is led by 4 sex researchers and dedicated to topics of healthy sexuality and sex in older adults. Igor discussed...
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!