School of Health Professions

• Summer school

Advanced Practice Summer School Models of Care with APNs - Leadership, Outcomes and Sustainability

From individual roles to the model of care - The Advanced Practice Summer School empowers advanced practitioners and nurse managers to explore their clinical leadership skills, fostering the development of...

24.06.2025 until 27.06.2025 – BFH, Schwarztorstrasse 48, 3007 Bern

• Symposium

6th APN-Symposium purposeful and systematic

The 6th APN-Symposium on May 19, 2025, will highlight the pioneering role of the Advanced Practice Nurse (APN). Discover how purposeful and systematic approaches can increase efficiency and effectiveness in...

19.05.2025, 9am–5.15pm – Hirslanden Bern, Salem-Spital, Schänzlistrasse 39 in Bern

• Story

Menopause is not just a women’s issue

24.01.2025 Our society is ageing. Up to now, one aspect of the demographic discourse has been largely ignored: the menopause. Researchers at BFH want to include the topic in two studies.

• Story

Addressing the quality of life in dementia

28.11.2024 Can people with dementia have a good quality of life? A study conducted by three BFH researchers aims to get to the bottom of this question.

• Story

Homeless seniors: life in the shadows

11.11.2024 The lives of older homeless adults, some without shelter for years, are poorly documented. With its research project, BFH aims to lay the foundations for more targeted support for homeless seniors.

• Story

«EFAS alone is not a magic bullet»

04.10.2024 On 24 November 2024, the Swiss population will vote on the amendment to the Federal Health Insurance Act (KVG). The objective of this law is the uniform financing of outpatient and inpatient services in...

• News

FMH Innovation Qualité: SERO wins first place

27.05.2024 An app developed in collaboration with BFH by Luzerner Psychiatrie AG for its project “SERO – Suicide Prevention Uniformly Regionally Organised” was awarded the “Innovation Qualité” award in the category...

• Story

“Medicine increases life expectancy”

18.03.2024 People in Switzerland are taking more and more medication. For Niklaus Meier, health economist at BFH, this is not a bad sign. Medicine is partly responsible for the fact that our life expectancy is increasing.

• Story

Digitalisation in care: pros and cons

20.12.2023 Digitalisation is on everyone’s lips. More and more data, sensors, applications and interfaces are being used, and healthcare is no exception. Friederike J.S. Thilo carries research in this field and...

• News

Sensors in healthcare and what they mean for us

11.09.2023 Modern technologies are revolutionising our health care system. In a four-part series, the authors of SocietyByte – the science magazine of Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) – analyse what...

• News

BFH expertise helps shape the future of nutrition

24.08.2023 The motto chosen for “The Spirit of Bern” 2023 conference was “Nutrition: problems, trends and innovations”. The event was attended by nutrition expert and BFH lecturer Prof. Dr David Fäh and various...

• News

Feminist Strike: BFH organises ‘living books’ on care work

06.06.2023 Bern University of Applied Sciences is setting up a ‘Living Library’ on the topic of care work at this year’s Feminist Strike on the Bundesplatz in Bern. People who are themselves dependent on care work will...