Career Prospects

Cognitive Psychology in Communication and Health is a rapidly growing field that can be effectively integrated and applied in many different areas. These include health communication, management of human resources, social psychology, educational psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, marketing and economics.

Students who graduate in the program will take advantage of the extended network of research, health institutions and companies belonging or connected to USI and San Raffaele University Hospital.  Graduates will profit from these connections and have the chance to work in research labs and institutes, clinics, and governmental health organizations, NGOs or other health domains, schools, notable companies. The goal of this program is to train students to master psychology and cognitive psychology to a point that they can grasp the basis of human behaviour and communication and use this knowledge to develop practical applications, for example the design of novel and effective interventions to prevent disease and promote health.

Network of professional collaborators

The following institutions and organizations are collaborating with us:

San Raffaele Hospital

Institute of Communication and Health

USI partners for the field projects are:

• Associazione Psicologi Ticinesi (ATP), Lugano

• European Society for Medical Oncology, Lugano

• GAVI The Vaccine Alliance, Geneva

• Ginsana, Bioggio

• Health Promotion Switzerland, Bern

• Istituto Ricerche di Gruppo (IRG), Lugano

• Novartis, Basel

• Path, Geneva

• Red Cross Foundation, Blood donation service, Lugano

• Soho Floridis International

UNISR partners for the field projects are:

• 3M Italia, Segrate
• AISPO, Milano
• Associazione Educatori senza Frontiere, Milano
• Azienda Ospedaliera "Ospedale San Carlo Borromeo", Milano
• Azienda Ospedaliera "Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo", Bergamo
• Bayer Healthcare Manufacturing, Milano
• CEF - Comitato per l'etica di fine vita, Milano
• Consulta di Bioetica Onlus, Torino
• Demoskopea SpA, Milano
• Federchimica, Milano
• Ferrero SPA, Alba
• Fondazione CARIPLO, Milano
• Fondazione di diritto privato "Casa Sora per voi" Onlus, Foresto Sparso
• Fondazione Don Gnocchi Onlus, Milano
• Fondazione Istituto Sacra Famiglia Onlus, Cesano Boscone
• GPF Research, Bergamo
• Gruppo San Donato
• Johnson&Johnson Medical, Milano
• L'Orèal Italia S.p.a., Milano
• MEDIASET S.p.A., Milano
• Mio Dottore
• Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health, Siena
• P.R.I.S.M.A. srl Health, Usmate
• Prov. Lombardo Veneta - Ord. Osp. S. Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia
• Salute allo Specchio Onlus, Milano
• Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa