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

• Guest lecture

Chronic ankle instability

On 10 October 2024, Physiotherapy Continuing Education at the Bern University of Applied Sciences invites you to a fascinating guest lecture on a key issue in orthopaedics and sports medicine: chronic ankle...

10.10.2024, 4.30pm–5.30pm – online and in person (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Murtenstrasse 10 in Bern)

• 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...

• Press Release

Klazine van der Horst appointed Head of the School of Health Professions

28.03.2023 The University Board of Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH has elected Klazine van der Horst as the new Head of the School of Health Professions. She will assume her new role on 1 May 2023, replacing...

• News

Solidarity with Ukraine

08.03.2022 The Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH is deeply concerned about the current developments in Ukraine. The university offers support for students and researchers.

• News

Congratulations Dr. Karin A. Peter

25.09.2020 We have the pleasure to congratulate Dr. Karin A. Peter for the awarded title of philosophical doctor.

• News

Congratulations Dr. Friederike Thilo

24.01.2020 We would like to congratulate Dr. Friederike J.S. Thilo for the awarded title of philosophical doctor!