The Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, and the Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne, are jointly organising a workshop addressing how behavioural economics can help improve population health and health care delivery.

In this lecture series, international experts on rehabilitation will review the promise, and the challenges, of strenghtening rehabilitation in global health systems through collaborations with academic, governmental and non-governmental partners as well as the private sector.

Please note that lecture of Karl Blanchet, November 7 had to be cancelled!

The University of Lucerne and Carleton University of Ottawa (Canada) now jointly offer a master’s programme in political science. The programme is due to start in fall 2018.

The Department of Political Science at the University of Lucerne was particularly successful in attracting competitively awarded third-party funds in 2017. A total of almost CHF 4 million was raised. This was a continuation of earlier successes.

The first conference of the Swiss Society of Health Economics will take place on September 14, 2018 at the University of Lucerne under the theme “Health Economics and Health System Reforms".

In this lecture series, professionals from industries, academia and patient organizations will share their visions how the patient perspective can become an integral part of the drug development process, and how this relates to public interests, regulatory requirements, the law and international initiatives.

In this lecture series, distinguished scientists from different countries and health care systems present their vision of a Learning Health System and share their experiences in the implementation of the Learning Health System idea.

We are happy to announce that the team of the University of Lucerne, for its written memorial, is ranked 1st in its particular UN region "Western Europe and Others" and 3rd in the overall ranking of the competition (Western Europe, Israel, North America, Australia and New Zealand).

On Monday, September 07, 2015, the first Graduation Ceremony in Health Sciences was held.

36 Master graduates and one PhD were awarded their diploma by Professor Dr. Stefan Boes, the Director of the Master Program in Health Sciences.

Prof. Sara Rubinelli is the national representative for Switzerland of the European Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH) and is now the newly appointed chair of the pEACH committee. pEACH is the new division of EACH that will be working on fostering knowledge translation and dissemination, and policy making in health communication. www.each.eu