Research Focus

Clinical Epidemiology, Public Health & Health Systems

Area of Research

Biomedical ethics

• Ethical and Legal issues of Mobile Health-Data – Improving understanding and eXPlainability of digitaL transformAtion and data technologies using artificial IntelligeNce [EXPLaiN]
• Smart Homes, Older Adults, and Caregivers: Facilitating social acceptance and negotiating responsibilities [RESOURCE]
• ARC – Autonomous Responsible Cars
• Statistical Categories and Normativity: (Against) the Essentialization of Morality as Quantified Normality
• Towards culturally equitable paedriatic oncology

National Collaborations

• Prof. Christophe Büla
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Mokros
• Prof. Dr. Marcelo Aebi
• Prof. Dr. med. Elmar Habermeyer
• Dr. Philipp Egli
• Prof. Dr. Marie-Laure Papaux Van Delden
• Prof. Dr. Jens Gaab
• Prof. Dr. Claudine Burton-Jeangros
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Perneger
• Prof. Dr. Claudia Seitz
• Prof. Dr. Florent Thouvenin
• Prof. Dr. Carlos Andrés Peña-Reyes
• Prof. Dr. med. Luzius Steiner
• Prof. Dr. Julia Vogt
• Prof. Dr. Jens Eckstein

International Collaborations

• Prof. Alex Capron, Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics, Professor of Law and Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US
• Prof. Zeke Emanuel, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
• Prof. Mark Rothstein, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, US
• Prof. Veerle Provoost, Bioethics Institute Ghent, University of Ghent, Belgium
• Dr. Emilian Mihailov, Executive Director, Research Centre in Applied Ethics, University of Bucharest, Romania
• Prof. Silvia Salardi, Department of Law, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
• Prof. Jan Schildmann, Instituts für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin, Medizinische Fakultät der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

• Achtsamkeit und Tabakkonsum bei Gefangenen: eine randomisierte kontrollierte Studie
• Advancing SMart solutions and eliminating barriers for the Acquisition, Analysis, and Sharing of Health data in Switzerland [SMAASH]
• Agequake in prisons – second part: Mental health care and forensic evaluation of aging prisoners and persons serving security measures in Switzerland
• Assistive Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Dementia and Age-Related Cognitive Decline
• Changing perspectives on age and ageing: A project to impact and raise awareness on elder abuse and ageism
• Digitalizing Elderly Care in Switzerland: Opportunities and Challenges
• Ethical and legal regulation of Big Data research – towards a sensible and efficient use of electronic health records and social media data
• Ethical concerns in the era of Big Data in psychiatry
• Ethical issues in whole genome/ whole exome sequencing
• Genetic Testing: Factors Influencing Public Interest and Attitudes
• Harnessing social media in adolescent and young adult (AYA) oncology.
• Inpatient-outpatient transitions in the era of DRGs: the legal framework and current practice
• Maternal Autonomy in Obstetric Decision-Making
• Palliative care at home: A multi perspective study on the complex needs of ALS family caregivers
• Trusting Black-Box Algorithms? Ethical Challenges for Biomedical Machine Learning