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 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!
A new edition of the Public Health Textbook “Public Health: Gesundheit und Gesundheitswesen” has been published by Elsavier. This comprehensive textbook covers all the basic important aspects of public health with a special focus on issues pertaining to German speaking parts of Europe and with cooperation from authors from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Our...
The European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2022. After two years in the online format, the EHFG is coming back to Gastein and the Salzburg mountain landscape with a hybrid conference and on-site presence. From 27th to 29th September, under the title “A Moonshot for a True European Health Union: If...
In order to promote a conscious approach to diversity at the Medical University of Vienna, MedUni Vienna awards the annual Veronika Fialka Moser Diversity Prize. The aim is to honour achievements in this area and make diversity visible. The prize is named after Veronika Fialka-Moser, Professor of Physical Medicine, in recognition of her many years of service in the field of diversity management at MedUni Vienna.
The CANCERLESS Consortium meeting held its first in person meeting since project began in June of last year. During two days of meeting held at wonderful Cambridge and organized by our partners Anglia Ruskin University, the Consortium discussed important aspects on the definition of activities of the Health Navigators and the implementation of the model in various settings.