The Medical University of Vienna annually awards exceptional contributions to promotion of diversity in categories “Reseach”, “Teaching”, “Thesis” and “Community”. Named after the late Prof Veronika Filka Moser, the prize was awarded this year for the tenth time. The first place in the category “Teaching” was awarded to Igor and Kathrin Kirchheiner from the Clinic...
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...
Igor was selected to lead the Integration Module of the European Masters in Public Health for 2024 in Rennes. This international program funded by Erasmus Mundus program of the European Union brings together 86 students from over 42 countries. Integration Module brings all students back to the French National School of Public Health (Ecole des...
On June 8th, 2024, Honja and Lisa led an interactive workshop with participants of the Primary Care Symposium (ÖGAM) in Vienna. They were joined by Magdalena Eitenberger and Katrin Schäfer who took over the role of the moderators to facilitate a lively discussion. The workshop was a practice exchange on prescribing benzodiazepines and antibiotics and...
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...
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...
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!