Dr. Michelle Dey

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate

Focus

• Child and youth health
• Mental Health
• Stigma / discrimination against people with mental illnesses
• Mental Health Literacy

Teaching

• Developmental psychology
• Global Mental Health
• Challenging professional practice and cooperation
• Social construction of health / illness
• Methodical consulting

Experience

• Research associate
  ZHAW Winterthur, Institute of Public Health
  09 / 2022 - today
• Scientific Project Manager
  University of Zurich, Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction
  07 / 2015 - 10 / 2022
• Postdoctoral Researcher
  University of Melbourne, Population Mental Health Group
  11 / 2013 - 03 / 2015
• Postdoctoral Researcher
  University of Zurich, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
  08 / 2012 - 08 / 2013
• Doctoral Student
  University of Zurich, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
  08 / 2009 - 10 / 2012
• NGO employee
  pro juventute
  10 / 2007 - 07 / 2009
• Research Assistant
  University of Zurich, Institute of Neuropsychology
  08 / 2004 - 10 / 2004

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Dr. phil. / Psychology / Public Health
  University of Zurich / Swiss School of Public Health
  08 / 2009 - 09 / 2012
• Master of Arts / Psychology
  University of Zurich
  10 / 2001 - 06 / 2007

Continuing Education

• CAS Higher & Professional Education
  ZHAW
  06 / 2025
• CAS Disease management and resource strengthening across the lifespan
  University of Zurich
  06 / 2022

Network

Membership of networks

Child and Youth Public Health Research competence network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4300-1877

Projects

• Evaluating, Identifying and REducing determinants MHC in Youth / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Producing an Arthritis Value-Framework with Economic Evidence – Paving the Way for Rare Childhood Disease / Deputy project leader / ongoing

Publications

• Dey, Michelle; Volken, Thomas; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; von Rhein, Michael; Seiler, Michelle; Laasner, Ursula; Wieber, Frank; Dratva, Julia; et al.,

  2025.

  Did the COVID-19 pandemic impact pediatric health service utilization in Switzerland? : interrupted time series models of health insurance data.

  Swiss Medical Weekly.

  155(3899).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.57187/s.3899

• Marshall, Deborah A.; Gerber, Brittany; Currie, Gillian R.; Antón, Jordi; De Somer, Lien; Dey, Michelle; Egert, Tsipi; Egert, Yona; Henan, Lia; Klotsche, Jens; Mifsut, Laura Martinez; Minden, Kirsten; Normand, Christophe; Porte, David; Saurenmann, Rotraud K.; Swart, Joost F.; Uziel, Yosef; Wilson, Jennifer; Wouters, Carine; Ziv, Amit; Benseler, Susanne M.; Cellucci, Tania; Fiebelkorn, Guillermo; Kohut, Sara A.; Stinson, Jennifer N.; Stringer, Elizabeth; Page, Stacey A.; Wulffraat, Nico; Yeung, Rae S. M.; Riess, Juliane; Milatz, Florian; Niewerth, Martina; Sengler, Claudia; Groesch, Nadine; Liedmann, Ina; Juvalta, Sibylle; Kurt, Pascale; Dratva, Julia; Shaw, David; Adank, Eva; Aeschlimann, Florence; Cannizzaro, Elvira; Huemer, Christian; Kaiser, Daniela; Moerman, Felix; Tenbrock, Klaus; Vanoni, Federica; Wörner, Andreas; Jabalera, Mercè; Vinyets, Joan; Ruiz, Elisabet Puiggros; Arenas, Sonia Carriquí; Giron, Nolvia Castillo; Hernandez, Joan Calzada; Jiménez, Estibaliz Iglesias; Mosquera, Juan M.; Crovato, Andrea Montserrat Zacarias; Guillen, Carolina Estepa; Rodríguez, Patricia Ramírez; Rodrigo, Marina Barraso; Cascajosa, Jesús Díaz; Cortés, Ana Isabel Díaz; Ballus, Marta Morales; Capdevila, Marta Llorens; Bosch, Maria Crespo; Castello, Ariadna Riera; Gavalda, Montserrat Salvado; Martinez, Marta Gonzalez; Segura, Alexia Reyes; Haviv, Ruby; Alon, Shirley; Heshin, Merav; Tirosh, Irit; Aviel, Yonathon Butbul; Aviran, Neta; Semo, Rotem; Hamad, Mohamad; Amarylio, Gil; Dagan, Chen; Lijnen, Lien; Willen, Joanna; Hens, Kristien; Van Goidsenhoven, Leni; De Tollenaere, Hilde,

  2024.

  Uncovering the hidden socioeconomic impact of juvenile idiopathic arthritis and paving the way for other rare childhood diseases : an international, cross-disciplinary, patient-centered approach (PAVE Consortium).

  Pediatric Rheumatology.

  22(1), pp. 74.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12969-024-01012-z

• von Rhein, Michael; Chaouch, Aziz; Oros, Vivian; Manzano, Sergio; Gualco, Gianluca; Sidler, Marc; Laasner, Ursula; Dey, Michelle; Dratva, Julia; Seiler, Michelle; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Volken, Thomas; Wieber, Frank,

  2024.

  The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric emergency department utilization in three regions in Switzerland.

  International Journal of Emergency Medicine.

  17(64).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12245-024-00640-2

• Dey, Michelle; von Rhein, Michael; Volken, Thomas; Chaouch, Aziz; Laasner, Ursula; Seiler, Michelle; Dratva, Julia,

  2024.

  Longitudinal analyses (2018-2022) of the COVID-19 impact on Swiss pediatric healthcare utilization[poster].

  In:

  17th European Public Health Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 November 2024.

• Dratva, Julia; Seiler, Michelle; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; von Rhein, Michael; Laasner, Ursula; Dey, Michelle,

  2023.

  Effekte der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die Inanspruchnahme von primär pädiatrischen Gesundheitsdienstleitungen in der Schweiz.

  In:

  Deutscher Kongress für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin (DGKJ), Hamburg, Deutschland, 20.-23. September 2023.

• Dratva, Julia; Seiler, Michelle; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; von Rhein, Michael; Laasner, Ursula; Dey, Michelle,

  2023.

  Effekte der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die Inanspruchnahme von primär pädiatrischen Gesundheitsdienstleitungen in der Schweiz.

  In:

  Kongress für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Hamburg, Deutschland, 20.-23. September 2023.

• Dey, Michelle; Volken, Thomas; Laasner, Ursula; Seiler, Michelle; Dratva, Julia; et al.,

  2023.

  Differences between pre-pandemic and pandemic (COVID-19) pediatric health service utilization in Switzerland : analyses of Swiss insurance data between 2018 and 2022.

  In:

  Jahreskongress pädiatrie schweiz, Interlaken, Schweiz, 15.-16. Juni 2023.

• Dey, Michelle; Volken, Thomas; Laasner, Ursula; Seiler, Michelle; Dratva, Julia,

  2023.

  Differences between pre-pandemic and pandemic (COVID-19) pediatric health service utilization in Switzerland : analyses of Swiss insurance data between 2018 and 2022.

  In:

  Jahreskongress pädiatrie schweiz, Interlaken, Schweiz, 15.-16. Juni 2023.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Teachers’ experiences with and helping behavior towards students with mental health problems.
• Comparing a mindfulness- and CBT-based guided self-help Internet- and mobile-based intervention against a waiting-list control condition as treatment for adults with frequent cannabis use: a randomized controlled trial of CANreduce 3.0
• Online prevention programmes for university students: stakeholder perspectives from six European countries
• Stakeholders’ views on online interventions to prevent common mental health disorders in adults implemented into existing healthcare systems in Europe
• Non-participation in epidemiological school-based surveys: using mixed methods to study predictors and modes of justification for (non-)participation at the school level
• Stigmatizing attitudes of Swiss youth towards peers with mental disorders
• Problematic smartphone use in young Swiss men: its association with problematic substance use and risk factors derived from the pathway model
• The Swiss Youth Mental Health Literacy and Stigma Survey: study methodology, survey questions/ vignettes, and lessons learned
• One size does not fit all – evolution of opioid agonist treatments in a naturalistic setting over 23 years
• Quality of life of parents of mentally-ill children: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of guided and unguided internet- and mobile-based indicated transdiagnostic prevention of depression and anxiety (ICare Prevent): a three-armed randomized controlled trial in four European countries
• Efficacy of a web- and text messaging-based intervention to reduce problem drinking in adolescents: results of a cluster-randomized controlled trail
• Help-negation in suicidal youth living in Switzerland
• Social determinants of mental health service utilization in Switzerland
• Changes in living arrangement, daily smoking, and risky drinking initiation among young Swiss men: a longitudinal cohort study
• Efficacy of an Internet-based self-help intervention to reduce co-occurring alcohol misuse and depression symptoms in adults: study protocol of a three-arm randomised controlled trial
• Reluctance to seek professional help among suicidal people: results from the Swiss Health Survey
• Young people's difficulty in talking to others about mental health problems: an analysis of time trends in Switzerland
• The Swiss cohort study on substance use risk factors – findings of two waves
• Adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and its association with substance use and substance use disorders in young men
• Cross-sectional time trends in psychological and somatic health complaints among adolescents: a structural equation modelling analysis of ‘Health Behaviour in School-aged Children’ data from Switzerland
• DSM-IV and DSM-5 alcohol use disorder among young Swiss men
• Children with mental versus physical health problems: differences in perceived disease severity, health care service utilization and parental health literacy
• Does drinking location matter? Profiles of risky single-occasion drinking by location and alcohol-related harm among young men
• Psychiatric disorders, suicidality, and personality among young men by sexual orientation
• Prevalence of and associated factors for adults attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in young Swiss men
• Beverage preferences and associated drinking patterns, consequences and other substance use behaviours
• Body mass index and health-related quality of life among young Swiss men
• Health-risk behaviors and quality of life among young men
• Health literacy and substance use in young Swiss men
• Assessing parent-child agreement in health-related quality of life among three health status groups
• An analysis of non-response in a Swiss national survey
• Health-related quality of life among children with mental health problems: a population-based approach
• Health-related quality of life among children with mental disorder: a systematic review
• A comparison of health-related quality of life between children with versus without special health care needs, and children requiring versus not requiring psychiatric services
• Behavioural patterns and dangers: a mixed-methods exploration of simultaneous polysubstance use and intervention strategies among Swiss adolescents

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