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The School of Health Sciences at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), one of the largest and most productive universities of applied sciences in Switzerland, is a renowned educational center for health professionals in Switzerland. It houses the Institute of Public Health, as well as other health disciplines. The Institute of Public Health puts a strong focus on health promotion, prevention and epidemiology both in education and research. A major research field of the institute is child and youth public health, focusing on health monitoring, mental health and digital health in this age group.
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.