{"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>. The focus is on the epidemiology of chronic diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>#PopHealthLab<\/em> has skills for the handling and analyses of complex data from multiple sources, using modern epidemiological and data sciences methods for <strong>description (what is)<\/strong> and <strong>causal inference (what if)<\/strong> tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The #PopHealthLab research projects are designed along specific features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<p><strong>Life course epidemiology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Eco-social epidemiology<\/li><li>Description &#8211; what is<\/li><li>Causal inference &#8211; what if<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<p><strong>Evidence-based public health<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Population health monitoring<\/li><li>Data-informed decisions<\/li><li>Evidence synthesis<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<p><strong>Consequential epidemiology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Population-level prevention<\/li><li>Policy evaluation<\/li><li>Health inequalities<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0#PopHealthLab\u00a0develops research activities to inform population-based prevention strategies and guide population health monitoring, with the overarching goal of helping citizens, health stakeholders, and policy makers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.unifr.ch\/pophealthlab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}