Prof. Dr. Karin Nordström

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Head BSc Health Promotion and Prevention
• President of the ZHAW Ethics Committee

Network

Membership of networks

• Swiss School of Public Health SSPH+ (Faculty Member)
• The Swiss Society for Public Health

Projects

• LGBTQ+ specific vs. sensitive health care in young adults - Needs and pathways / Team member / ongoing
• Collaborative Capacity Building for Health Promotion Professionals in Switzerland / Project leader / completed
• Preliminary study for an innovative lift retrofit system for people with disabilities / Team member / completed
• Health Technology Assessment: Medicines for Dementia due to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease / Team member / completed

Publications

• Feer, Sonja; Sommer, Bettina; Gut, Vanessa; Rausch, Anne-Kathrin; Bodmer-Matter, Monika; Inauen Lehner, Alice; Schulze, Christina; Nordström, Karin; Ingold, Christian; Wieber, Frank,

  2025.

  Begegnungs- und Bewegungsförderung im Quartier.

  Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11553-025-01239-y

• Schneider Stingelin, Colette; Volkmer, Nadine; Ingold, Christian; Nordström, Karin,

  2025.

  Strategische Kommunikation in der Gesundheitsförderung : wechselseitiger Wissenstransfer bei der Entwicklung realer Kommunikationsprojekte für die Public-Health-Praxis.

  Die Hochschullehre.

  11, pp. 354-368.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3278/HSL2469W

• Koné, Inse; Zimmermann, Beatrice; Nordström, Karin; Elger, Bernice Simone; Wangmo, Tenzin,

  2018.

  A Scoping review of empirical evidence on the impacts of the DRG-introduction in Germany and Switzerland.

  The International Journal of Health Planning and Management.

  34(1), pp. 56-70.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2669

• Princewill, Chitu Womehoma; Jegede, Ayodele; Nordström, Karin; Lanre-Abass, Bolatito; Elger, Bernice Simone,

  2017.

  Factors affecting women's autonomous decision making in research participation amongst Yoruba women of Western Nigeria.

  Developing World Bioethics.

  17(1), pp. 40-49.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/dewb.12112

• Ahlgren, Jennie; Nordgren, Anders; Perrudin, Marie; Ronteltap, Amber; Savigny, Jean; van Trijp, Hans; Nordström, Karin; Görman, Ulf,

  2013.

  Consumers on the internet : ethical and legal aspects of commercialization of personalized nutrition.

  Genes & Nutrition.

  8(4), pp. 349-355.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21821

• Görman, Ulf; Ahlgren, Jennie; Nordström, Karin,

  2020.

  Ethical considerations in nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics.

  In:

  De Caterina, Raffaele; Martinez, Alfredo; Kohlmeier, Martin, eds.,

  Principles of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics : fundamentals of individualized nutrition.

  London:

  Academic Press.

  pp. 543-548.

• Nordström, Karin,

  2014.

  Bürgerliche Erziehung am Rande der Gesellschaft : Emilie Flygare-Carléns Rose von Tistelön (1843).

  In:

  Bühler, Patrick; Bühler, Thomas; Helfenberger, Marianne; Osterwalder, Fritz, eds.,

  Erziehung in der Europäischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.

  Bern:

  Prisma.

  pp. 21-37.

• Nordström, Karin,

  2012.

  Can we educate for freedom? : ethical perspectives on the pedagogical paradox.

  In:

  Parker, Stephen; Freathy, Rob; Francis, Leslie, eds.,

  Religious education and freedom of religion.

  Oxford:

  Peter Lang.

  pp. 131-150.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0335-3

• Biehl, Verena; Glässel, Andrea; Nordström, Karin; Wieber, Frank,

  2025.

  Workforce capacity building : professional identity formation in health promotion students[paper].

  In:

  25th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 13-16 May 2025.

• Gibney, Mike, ed.,

  2015.

  Personalised nutrition : paving a way to better population health.

  Food4Me.

• Biehl, Verena; Hartung, Susanne; Nordström, Karin; Plunger, Petra; Rohrauer-Näf, Gerlinde; Schaefer, Ina; Wahl, Anna,

  2024.

  Ausbildung zu settingorientierter Gesundheitsförderung im D|A|CH-Raum gemeinsam weiterentwickeln : Perspektiven aus Ausbildung, Forschung, Praxis und Policy.

  In:

  Kongress Armut und Gesundheit, Berlin, Deutschland, 5.-6. März 2024.

  Available from: https://www.armut-und-gesundheit.de/uploads/tx_gbbkongressarchiv/160_Biehl_et._al_Beitrag.pdf

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