Institute of Communication and Health (ICH)

Address: via Giuseppe Buffi 13, CH-6904 Lugano
Telephone: +41 58 666 44 87
Fax: +41 58 666 46 47
Email: ich.com@usi.ch
Contact person: Peter J. Schulz
Url: www.ich.com.usi.ch

Health communication is a relatively new and multidisciplinary field, which includes the study and use of communication to inform and affect individuals decisions and the community to improve the quality of health. Effective communication provides, indeed, a crucial contribution to health promotion, as well as diseases prevention and management.
The Institute of Communication and Health (ICH) explores the field of communication sciences for both theoretical and applied research aimed at the preservation and development of individual health, and through social and corporate programs for the promotion of health, well-being and social policies.
The Institute bases its research on the interdisciplinary integration between humanistic tradition and social sciences. This strategy is the basis for a quality approach in the studies of the health sector with conceptual and empirical implications.
In addition, the ICH offers an excellent PhD program in Communication and Health financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation and a Master in Communication, Management and Health in collaboration with Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, Virginia, USA).
The ICH currently is currently made up of 33 members, including professors, researchers, PhD students and scientific collaborators.

Staff:
Peter J. Schulz (Full Professor, Director of ICH)
Kent Nakamoto (Adjunct professor, Vice-director)
Annegret Hannawa (Assistant professor)
Teresa Cafaro (Administrative manager)
Bénédicte Pansier (External Relations and Partnership Manager)
James Jaccard (Visiting Professor)
Wolf Langewitz (Visiting Professor)
James Mackay (Visiting Professor)
Bert Meuffels (Visiting Professor)
Frans Van Eemeren (Visiting Professor)
Sara Rubinelli (Visiting Lecturer)
Bertino Somaini (Visiting Lecturer)
Maria Caiata Zufferey (Senior Researcher)
Uwe Hartung (Senior Researcher)
Anne-Linda Camerini (Frisch) (Post-Doc Researcher)
Nicola Diviani (Post-Doc Researcher)
Maddalena Fiordelli (Post-Doc Researcher)
Evi Germeni (Post-Doc Researcher)
Silvia Riva (Post-Doc Researcher)
Ezgi Eyüboglu (Visiting Scholar)
Marta Nobile (Visiting Scholar)
Grazia Orizio (Visiting Scholar)
Robyn Woodward-Kron (Visiting Scholar)
Ahmed Allam (Ph.D student)
Rebecca Amati (Ph.D student)
Arthur Dubowicz (Ph.D student)
Zlatina Kostova (Ph.D student)
Nanon Labrie (Ph.D student)
Sarah Mantwill (Ph.D student)
Ana Maria Moreno Londoño (Ph.D student)
Francesca Scalici (Ph.D student)
Laura Sefaj (Research Assistant)
Gianfranco Bolognini (Senior Consultant)
Mauro Manconi (Senior Consultant)