At the end of May 2026, our Horizon Europe project CO-CAPTAIN completed its active implementation phase. The project set out with an ambitious goal: to reduce the cancer burden among people living with mental ill-health by co-designing and piloting a patient navigation intervention aimed at improving access to primary cancer prevention services. Along the way,...
Lisa Lehner, together with Igor Grabovac won a new grant from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund – WWTF! The transdisciplinary project called “HPVienna: Pioneering a Transdisciplinary Urban Surveillance System for Human Papilloma Virus with Vulnerable Communities” focuses on surveillance, genotyping and modelling of HPV in vulnerable communities in Vienna. The project brings together the Bergthaler...
The 17th European Public Health Conference was held between the 12th and 15th of November in Lisbon, Portugal under the motto: “Sailing the waves of European Public Health: Exploring the sea of innovation”. Over 3000 delegates all over the world presented their work and participated in various skills building workshops. Our team was also very...
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...
Lisa Lehner and Igor Grabovac won a new project grant from the Austrian Institue of Public Health (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH – GÖG). The project DIGI: Digital Helath Promotion: A Study on Quality Assurance of Digital Health Information (Digitale Geusndheitsförderung: Studie zur Qualitätsicherung von digitalen Gesundheitsinformationen) will look into the possibility of establishing quality control and...
A new article titled “Health literacy and empowerment for people with severe mental illnesses” and published in psychopraxis.neuropraxis provides insights into the relevance of improving health literacy and empowerment, especially for people with mental ill-health. People with mental ill-health are faced with a high disease burden as well as somatic health risks. The situation is...
The FEANTSA Forum in Vienna provided us with an invaluable opportunity to discuss how our team in CANCERLESS was making strides in offering cancer preventive care to people experiencing homelessness within our project’s framework. People experiencing homelessness face significant barriers to healthcare, which often leads to late diagnoses and poor health outcomes. Our session focused...
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...
Our very own Tobias Schiffler, together with his co-authors Chirstopher Tupy and Lisa Kainzbauer won the Best Abstract Award at the Sixth International Conference on Mental Health and Recovery in Bern, Switzerland. The award was given for the Abstarct entitled “Trialogisches Co-Design zur Verbesserung körperlicher Gesundheitsversorgung für Menschen mit psychischen Erkrankungserfahrungen: Das CoMitMent Projekt” which...
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...