Welcome to Unisanté

University Center for Primary Care and Public Health 
Based in Lausanne, Switzerland

frise unisante

Key numbers

Explore our institution’s 2023 profile via a few key figures.

Some numbers
164 members of research staff
13 mio Swiss francs in scientific funding obtained / year
83 PhD theses in progress / year
278 articles / year with international scope
448 scientific publications / year
50 research groups

Our institution covers many research fields

Research domains areas
Addictions including smoking cessation

Unisanté is committed to fighting tobacco addiction, notably through the study of the use of new tobacco products (electronic cigarettes, single-use puffs, etc.), the toxicological aspects and the radioactivity of tobacco-derived products(…)

+
Chronic Diseases, Ageing Population

A number of Unisanté's research activities are related to chronic diseases: epidemiology and monitoring of chronic diseases and their risk factors, cancer screening, chronic disease prevention, including health promotion, assessment of public policies(…)

+
Digital Transition and New Technologies including digital services and clinical diagnosis

New technologies have the potential to improve the quality of healthcare, patient safety and the health of populations. Unisanté wishes to harness this potential, while ensuring that these technologies are rigorously assessed(…)

+
Global and Environmental Health

Unisanté conducts research projects intended to reduce morbidity and mortality among patients living in resource-limited countries or returning to Europe from the tropics, by improving the quality of primary care. Unisanté also focus on the health effects(…)

+
Health of Vulnerable Populations and Social Medicine

Unisanté conducts research into different populations with health inequities, including the deaf and hard-of-hearing, the homeless, forced migrants, LGBTQIA+ communities, and frequent users of emergency services, who commonly experience a wide range(…)

+
Health Policy, Economics, Systems and Services

Unisanté has expertise in the field of research into health systems and services, in general, and into the assessment and quality of healthcare, health economics and policy, in particular. Its research activities aim to assess health interventions(…)

+
Health Promotion, Prevention and Screening

Unisanté conducts studies designed to obtain convincing data on risk factors and operations that may reduce the risk of the onset or spread of diseases. Our researcher also focus on the development of screenings and studies of their effectiveness(…)

+
Mental Health

At Unisanté, scientists are factoring this important side of population health into their research projects, with specific studies being carried out on the mental health of healthcare professionals, researchers, workers and teenagers.

+
Occupational Health, Toxicology

Unisanté is interested in occupational epidemiology with the demonstration of the health effects of physico-chemical exposure in the professional environment and the assessment of psycho-social risks on workers. Characterization studies into toxicology(…)

+
Primary Care

Unisanté’s research goals in primary care are : improving clinical transitions, particularly for older patients, developing new care models, developing new nursing roles and new competencies for medical assistants, developing pharmacists’ clinical(…)

+
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Unisanté has specific expertise in the epidemiology of chronic diseases and their determinants, in nutritional epidemiology, and in occupational and environmental epidemiology. The institution is also active in research into the organization and transformation(…)

+