Dr. Michelle Dey
Dr. Michelle Dey
ZHAW
School of Health Sciences
Institute of Public Health
Katharina-Sulzer-Platz 9
8400 Winterthur
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
Projects
- Connect – Integrated care for the mental health of young women in Winterthur / Project leader / ongoing
- 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
- Literature review on risk and protective factors for the mental (ill) health of youth / Project leader / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Dey, M. 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). doi: 10.57187/s.3899.
- Marshall, D. A. et al. (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), p. 74. doi: 10.1186/s12969-024-01012-z.
- von Rhein, M. et al. (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). doi: 10.1186/s12245-024-00640-2.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Dey, M. et al. (2024) 'Longitudinal analyses (2018-2022) of the COVID-19 impact on Swiss pediatric healthcare utilization', in 17th European Public Health Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 November 2024.
Other publications
- Dey, M. et al. (2025) Schutz- und Risikofaktoren für die psychische Gesundheit von Heranwachsenden : eine Literaturübersicht zur internationalen und Schweizer Forschung. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-34648.
- Dey, M. et al. (2024) Pediatric health service utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic (PedCov). Bundesamt für Gesundheit BAG. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-33359.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Raymer, P. et al. (2025) 'Designing policy solutions for the pressing issue of youth mental health problems in Switzerland', in Swiss Public Health Conference (SPHC), Lugano, Switzerland, 10-11 September 2025.
- Dratva, J. et al. (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.
- Dey, M. 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.
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