{"id":26,"date":"2021-03-22T09:45:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T09:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:08:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0<em>#PopHealthLab\u00a0<\/em>develops research activities to inform <strong>population-based prevention<\/strong> strategies and guide <strong>population health monitoring<\/strong>, with the overarching goal of helping citizens, health stakeholders, and policy makers take data-informed and evidence-based decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research disciplines are the <strong>population health sciences in a life course epidemiology perspective<\/strong>, within a <strong>data-informed, evidence-based<\/strong>, and <strong>consequential framework<\/strong>. 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