SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus

The PhD program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics has close ties to the Swiss School of Public Health and its Inter-university Graduate Campus.

SSPH+

The Foundation Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) assembles the academic public health expertise available across Swiss universities (Basel, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, Neuchâtel, Svizzera italiana, Zurich, BFH, SUPSI and ZHAW). SSPH+ is based on the vision that public health is a scientific and professional field, shaped by a broad range of disciplines. In a small country like Switzerland, no single institution has the critical mass needed to cover all public health relevant areas.

Inter-university Graduate Campus

All PhD students supervised by a SSPH+ Faculty member are welcome in the Graduate Campus to benefit from its offers and opportunities to strengthen their academic skills, competencies, career paths and networks.

PhD students enrolled in the SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus have cost-free access to its PhD courses (apart from a processing fee of 30 CHF per course), and can attend courses offered by the seasonal SSPH+ schools (e.g. the Spring School in Geneva and the Summer School in Lugano) and other partners at reduced fees.

Offer

The SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus provides PhD students with:

• State-of-the art training in methods and topical public health issues
• Broad access to the inter-university multidisciplinary SSPH+ research and teaching faculty
• Study Recommendations for what constitutes a high quality PhD track in public health sciences
• SSPH+ Certificate in Public Health
• Unique networking opportunities with other PhD students and SSPH+ junior and senior scientists all across Switzerland

No additional requirements for enrollment in terms of ECTS, publications, meetings etc. apart from the ones of your home university.

Application

The only eligibility criteria for enrollment are the following:

1. Your primary supervisor (committee head) must be an SSPH+ Faculty member
2. You must be formally registered and approved as a PhD student in one of the SSPH+ Foundation partner universities such as the University of Zurich

If you meet these 2 requirements, you are welcome to apply here: https://ssphplus.ch/en/graduate-campus/