Yesterday on the 28th of May our PhD students and affiliated reserachers Alexandra Karden and Cornelia Feichtinger presented their doctoral work at the annual Young Scientist Association Symposium. During their poster session Alex presented her work taking on drug use and utilization of drug cheking services in Austria based on an analysis of the European...
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...
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...
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”...