University of Lucerne opens new faculty
Lucerne - During a celebratory ceremony, the University of Lucerne (HSLU) has inaugurated its new Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine. The focus of the new faculty is geared towards a holistic consideration of health, with a priority on the interactions between people and society.
Back in February of this year, the University of Lucerne (HSLU) designated the Department of Health Sciences and Medicine as a faculty in its own right, further details of which can be found in a press release issued by HSLU. At the end of June, the new faculty was officially inaugurated during a celebratory ceremony. Together with the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences and Psychology, which was also newly established in February, HSLU now operates six faculties.
At the inauguration ceremony, Bruno Staffelbach, President of the University of Lucerne, highlighted HSLU’s focus on human sciences. «We are a specialist university for people and their institutions», Staffelbach explained in his speech. Stefan Boes, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, illustrated the new faculty’s journey from its humble beginnings as a seminar on health sciences and health policy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. «And we stand before you now as a fully-formed faculty, with 10 professors, 22 honorary and guest professors, more than 80 employees, soon to be 400 students and nearly 450 lecturers who are committed to our study programs», Boes stated in his speech.
The purpose of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine is to take a holistic consideration of health above and beyond a purely medical focus on healthcare, Boes explains. At its core, the faculty hones in on the interactions between people and society. In this way, the faculty’s focus is unique in Switzerland.
