01 November 2022

Clinical Epidemiology under new management

"Research with significance", "Relevance to clinical practice", "Change and impact as a goal" - these are guiding principles with which Niklaus Labhardt describes his vision for the tasks newly entrusted to him at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel.

Prof. Dr. med. Niklaus Labhardt took up the professorship for Clinical Epidemiology in August of this year and was appointed Chief Physician for Clinical Epidemiology and Senior Physician Infectiology at the same time. He is now leading the Division of Clinical Epidemiology, a structural unit of the Department of Clinical Research (DKF), and reorganising the competencies in the areas of research, teaching and consulting.

With its three complementary units "International Clinical and Health Service Research (ICHSR)", "CLinical research Empirical Assessment and Recommendations (CLEAR)" and "Evidence-based insurance medicine (EbIM)" (for details see website), the researchers want to make their contribution to modern health research. In addition, the competences available at the department are to be made available to other researchers at the Faculty of Medicine in the form of consulting services, especially on questions of methodological study planning and study design.

The Division of Clinical Epidemiology seeks active collaborations with other clinical research groups. This with two main goals: On the one hand, to strengthen clinical research in the Basel area as a whole and, in particular, to provide young clinical researchers with a supportive environment and network. On the other hand, to ensure that Clinical Epidemiology itself remains at the cutting edge and contributes to the solution of important clinical questions. Different models of collaboration are conceivable: Collaboration in consortia and research clusters or the organisation of research stays of interested clinicians in Clinical Epidemiology.