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Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
Pandemics: improving preparedness and management
European science and ethics advisors have issued an Opinion on more successfully preventing and pre-empting emerging infectious diseases. Their recommendations include enhanced international coordination, strengthened systems of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and management as well as how to uphold fundamental rights and social justice in times of health emergencies. The recommendations also concern systemic issues, most notably related to sustainability and social justice, taking European values and respect for fundamental rights as points of orientation.
The Opinion was developed jointly by the European Commission’s independent Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies and Peter Piot, Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission on the response to Covid-19.
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences SAMS
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SPHN: Clinical data from 800’000 patients unlocked
After eight years of coordinated effort, the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) released the metadata of a uniquely rich national clinical dataset, spanning more than 800’000 patients and billions of semantically harmonized data points across diagnoses, procedures, labs, medications, vital signs, and more. Researchers can now easily discover what data exists in Switzerland and how to access it.
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Call for nominations: Prix de Quervain 2026 for Polar Research
The Prix de Quervain 2026 will be awarded for outstanding research conducted in, or originat-ing from, the two polar regions, across all scientific disciplines.
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Update of the Swiss Health Care Atlas with data for 2024
Published by the Swiss Health Observatory (Obsan), the Health Care Atlas documents the use of healthcare services based on over 100 indicators, ranging from ADHD medication to cardiac catheterization and radiotherapy. Obsan recently announced that the Healthcare Atlas has been updated with data for the year 2024.