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...
To mark the end of year one, Honja, Lisa and Igor joined by Janina Kehr and Miriam Schweiger participated in an all day long “Less is More?” Project retreat. Next to celebration of many achivements and milestopnes we also planned further steps, and potential collaborations. In the project we focus on deprescribing pharmaceuticals for patient...
Honja Hama and Tobias Schiffler represented the Grabovac Group and the Medical University of Vienna at the First Consortium Meeting of the INTERACT-EUROPE 100 meeting in Barcelona! Building on the achievements of its predecessor INTERACT-EUROPE, INTERACT-EUROPE 100 is a 36-month project that is co-funded by the European Union under the EU4Health Programme 2021-2027 as part...
Tobias Schiffler attended the “Pathways from Homelessness 2024” International Conference in London on March 13-14, 2024. This event, organized by the Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health, gathers health and social care professionals from the UK and beyond to discuss best practices and innovative interventions for homelessness. Tobias presented the co-development of the Health Navigator...
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...
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...
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...
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...