Școala de Științe ale Sănătății de la Universitatea de Științe Aplicate din Zurich (ZHAW), una dintre cele mai mari și mai productive universități de științe aplicate din Elveția, este un centru educațional renumit pentru profesioniștii din domeniul sănătății din Elveția. Aceasta găzduiește Institutul de Sănătate Publică, precum și alte discipline din domeniul sănătății. Institutul de Sănătate Publică pune un accent deosebit pe promovarea sănătății, pe prevenire și pe epidemiologie, atât în educație, cât și în cercetare. Un domeniu de cercetare important al institutului este sănătatea publică a copiilor și tinerilor, concentrându-se pe monitorizarea sănătății, sănătatea mintală și sănătatea digitală în această categorie de vârstă.
Prof. Dr. med. Julia Dratva
Julia Dratva is a public health physician and has a professorship for public health at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences and an assistant professorship at the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel. She co-leads the Institute of Public Health at the School of Health Sciences, ZHAW, and heads the research division at the same institute., Further, she presides the Swiss Society of Public Health Doctors (FMH) and is academic fellow at the Swiss School of Public Health+. Next to her research focus on child and adolescent health and early life factors of health and chronic disease, she is a renowned expert on child and adolescent health monitoring and observational cohort studies.
Prof. Dr. Frank Wieber
Frank Wieber works as deputy head of research at the Institute of Public Health at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He has a background in social psychology and motivation and is interested in understanding and changing behavior in a digital world. In his research, he addresses questions on the promotion of (mental) health in children, adolescents, and young adults and self-management processes in individuals with ADHD and as fellow he contributes to the Swiss School of Public Health and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
Dr. phil Michelle Dey
Michelle Dey studied psychology, child and adolescent psychopathology and social and preventive medicine at the University of Zurich. Since her PhD on "Health-related quality of life among children with mental health problems", she has been working on mental health in children and adolescents, in particular on substance abuse, stigma and mental health competence. Michelle Dey conducts research at the Institute of Public Health on secondary burden of disease and health care use of children and adolescents.
Pauline Raymer
Pauline Raymer is a research fellow and doctoral researcher for Julia Dratva’s team at the Institute of Public Health at the Zürich University of Applied Sciences. She previously completed a bachelor’s in biomedical sciences with the University of South Africa, and a master’s degree in health sciences, with a focus on Health Economics and Policy, at the University of Luzern. In her PhD thesis, she focuses on determinants of mental health conditions in youth.