Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences SAMS
The SPHN Data Coordination Center (SPHN-DCC): Consolidating the SPHN infrastructures beyond 2024
Since 2017, the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) initiative has been coordinating the development of data infrastructures for the responsible use of health data for research throughout Switzerland. The Swiss Academies of Medical Sciences (SAMS) and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics have been jointly responsible for implementing the mandate. After 2024, the foundations established by SPHN need to become permanently integrated into the Swiss research landscape.
A first Academies Report on the achievements of SPHN for the period 2016–2019 was published in 2021. This second publication summarizes the expectations and needs of the Swiss health research community for the long-term future of the SPHN-DCC. It furthermore sets out the technical, organizational, and financial requirements, giving special emphasis to the many interfaces of the SPHN-DCC with its partners in research, the healthcare system, and administration. As part of the developing Swiss research infrastructure and health landscape, the SPHN-DCC promotes data-driven medicine and personalized health at national and international scale.
Swiss Personalized Health Network (2023)
The SPHN Data Coordination Center (SPHN-DCC):
Consolidating the SPHN infrastructures beyond 2024
Swiss Academies Communications 18 (4).
Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT
Roles of Scientists in Sustainability Transformations: A Guide for Reflection and Workshop Facilitation
Scientists, scientific experts, and knowledge brokers often find themselves in situations where they need to play new roles in society or are criticised for positioning themselves at the interface between science and other societal fields of action. The present guide aims to stimulate reflections on, and discussions of, various different roles that scientists perform.
European Academies Science Advisory Council EASAC
Changing wildfires: policy options for a fire-literate and fire-adapted Europe
There is an increased probability of extreme fires, due mainly to climate change (droughts and declining summer precipitation), rural depopulation, and land-use changes. To respond to this, a new European Academies report is calling for an urgent shift in wildfire policy – from reactive fire suppression to proactive, risk-based land management.
Already today, wildfires burn half a million hectares in the EU yearly on average, i.e. nearly twice the size of Luxembourg. While the Mediterranean remains the highest-risk region, the report warns that continental, alpine, and boreal regions must also prepare for a new era of fire. Instead of focussing on fire suppression and emergency response, the report advocates for an integrated EU framework for landscape fire-risk governance that prioritises prevention alongside these three elements: climate and land-use policies that focus on restoring carbon-rich peatlands and managing forests sustainably; integrate fire risk into biodiversity and tree-planting plans; and educate for a fire-resilient society.
The report under the auspices of the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) was drafted by scientists from across Europe. On behalf of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Marco Conedera, forest engineer at the WSL Campus in Cadenazzo, contributed as a reviewer of a draft version.
Actor constellation - td-net toolbox profile 2 Pohl, C. 2020
This publication describes the actor constellation and is part of a series of tools and methods compiled in the td-net toolbox for co-producing knowledge. Actor constellation is a role-play for identifying the relevance of various involved actors for tackling a specific research question.