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Upcoming Events & Credits

Frequently Asked Questions

Membership

Becoming a member of SSI is simple! Visit our Membership Page, fill out the application form, and submit it. Once your membership is confirmed, you will have access to exclusive events, resources, job postings, and networking opportunities in the field of infectious diseases.

As an SSI member, you receive exclusive access to a range of benefits, including invitations to events, access to job opportunities, and networking with professionals in infectious diseases. Members also receive priority registration for events and discounted rates for conferences and workshops.

  • Ordinary Member (holders of the Swiss board certification in Infectious Diseases):
    CHF 250.–

  • Junior Member (physicians in training for Infectious Diseases board certification): CHF 100.–

  • Collective Member (institutions, laboratories, companies or other legal bodies):
    CHF 1,000.–

  • Honorary Member:
    No fee

  • Passive Member (members who have given up their professional activity):
    No fee

  • Guest / Associate Member (members of other medical societies):
    CHF 100.–

Voting rights depend on the membership category:

  • Ordinary Members, Junior Members, and Honorary Members have voting rights.

  • Collective, Passive, and Guest Members do not have voting rights.

After submitting your application, it will be reviewed during the next meeting of the SSI Executive Committee. Once the Executive Committee has assessed the application, you will be notified of the decision.

The SSI Executive Committee meetings for 2026 are scheduled as follows:

  • 15 January 2026
  • 02 March 2026
  • 04–05 June 2026 – SSI Strategy Workshop II
  • 10 September 2026
  • 07 December 2026

Account Management

Creating an account with SSI is easy! Visit our Registration Page, enter your personal details, and submit the form. You will receive a confirmation email with a link to activate your account. Once activated, you will have access to all of SSI’s resources, including events, job postings, and member benefits.

After logging in, navigate to your profile or account settings section. There you can update your personal details such as email address, affiliation, job title, and contact information. Please save the changes before logging out.

If your affiliation, institution, or contact details change, you can update them directly in your profile. This ensures that all communications, mailing lists, and member records remain up-to-date.

No worries! If you have forgotten your password, click on the "Forgot Password?" link on the login page. We will send you an email with instructions to reset your password. Follow the link in the email to create a new password.

Yes — the Society ensures that all personal data provided during account creation and profile updates is stored securely and in compliance with applicable data protection regulations. The data will only be used for Society-related communication and services.

Events

To submit an event for credit evaluation, please complete the required Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMW) checklist and attach the full event programme as a PDF. Then upload both via the Event Submission Form on our website.

Please submit your credit request at least 30 days before the event date. This ensures there is enough time for evaluation, approval, and publication of your event.

After you submit your request, the documents (checklist and programme) are reviewed by the responsible persons within the society. Once the review is completed, you will be notified of the decision. If approved, the event will subsequently be published in our agenda and participants may receive credits.

The event programme should contain detailed information such as schedule, speakers, timing, topics — essentially enough to allow assessment of the educational content.

The event programme should contain detailed information such as schedule, speakers, timing, topics — essentially enough to allow assessment of the educational content.

To register for upcoming events hosted by SSI, log in to your account and visit the Events section. Here, you will find a list of upcoming events, including conferences, workshops, and webinars. Click on the event you're interested in and follow the registration process.

If you have questions or need assistance, please contact our General Secretariat— we are happy to support you.

Job Dashboard

To submit a job offer, please complete the official job-posting form and provide all relevant information (e.g. job title, location, responsibilities, qualifications, and contact details). Once the form has been submitted, the General Secretariat will review the information, and—if accepted—the job offer will be published on the website’s jobs section.

You may post job offers relevant to infectious diseases and related fields — for example positions in clinics, research institutions, laboratories, public health, or training positions (e.g. residents, fellows).

All submitted job offers are reviewed by the General Secretariat to ensure completeness and relevance. Once the review is completed, the job posting will be published on the website’s job board.

The SSI Job Dashboard is a great resource for finding job opportunities related to infectious diseases and public health. To search for available positions, log in to your account and visit the Job Dashboard. You can filter job listings by location, job type, and specialization.

To apply for a job, simply log in to your account, navigate to the Job Dashboard, and find the listing you are interested in. Click on the job to view the description and application instructions.

General Secretariat

For any inquiries or assistance, you can contact the General Secretariat as follows:
Sandra Caduff
Sandra Caduff

General Secretary

c/o IMK Institut für Medizin und Kommunikation AG

Münsterberg 1, 4001 Basel

We are here to support the SSI community and ensure effective communication and coordination in all areas related to infectious diseases.
Last update on 8 November 2024

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Transparent handling of personal data is very important to us. This privacy policy provides information on what personal data we collect, for what purpose and to whom we pass it on. We regularly review and update this privacy policy to ensure the highest level of transparency.

What data we collect

We process your general personal data. Personal data is any type of information that relates to an identifiable natural person. The natural person is identifiable if conclusions can be drawn about the identity of the person from the available information.

Example: Your name, IP address and home address are personal data.

You often provide us with your personal data yourself. Whenever you enter your personal data and transmit it to us, it is deemed to have been provided to us. The transmission of data to us is basically voluntary, but in some cases it is mandatory in order to be able to use our offers.

Example: You enter your data in a contact form or sign up for a newsletter.

When you use our services, we sometimes collect their data without your active participation. This data is usually data about your device and data about user behavior.

Example: We collect data about the operating system of the device you used to access our website.

We strive to continuously improve our offer. For this purpose, we use your personal data for the development and improvement of our products and services.

Example: We collect data about visitor behavior on the website in order to constantly improve the user experience.

We share your personal data with companies that can decide for themselves how to use the data. Most often, this is done because it is necessary to comply with legal requirements, when an outstanding debt is transferred to a collection agency, or when to detect fraudulent activity.

Example: A legal requirement obliges us to pass on your data to an authority.

We work with providers from all over the world to process your personal data. This allows us to benefit from the global offering and access the best and most reliable services. Under certain circumstances, the country to which the data is exported does not have the same data protection standard as Switzerland.

Example: We use the services of a cloud provider such as Google, which is based in the USA.

What services we use

https://google.com/analytics

We use Google Analytics on our website, a service of the provider Google Ireland Ltd, Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland with headquarters at Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, both together "Google".

What data do we process?

Google Analytics is an analysis service for websites to collect information about the use of the website. In particular, the following information may be collected:

  • IP address
  • Technical information such as browser, operating system or screen resolution
  • Interactions on the website
  • Duration of the visit
  • Time and date of the website visit
  • Referrer URL

The IP address is anonymised by Google Analytics so that a personal reference is no longer possible. When a visitor visits our website for the first time, Google Analytics can generate an identifier to recog-nise the visitor when they visit the website again. If you are logged in with your Google account, data processing can also take place across devices.

For what purpose do we process the data?

Your IP address is used to determine your approximate location. We can use the information obtained from this to measure the relevance of our offers in different regions. We also use the IP address to de-termine where website visitors have come to our website from. The technical information is processed so that the website can be displayed satisfactorily on every device. The interactions, duration, time and date are collected so that we can use this data to evaluate and optimise our marketing campaigns and offers. We can also use this data to determine how visitors interact with our website, i.e. which content is popular with which visitors. The referrer URL is processed for the purpose of measuring the effec-tiveness and analysing various marketing channels.

Who do we share the data with?

The transfer of data by us is governed by our statements on data transfer. As Google is a transnational company, your data may be transferred by Google to anywhere in the world. In particular, it may be transferred to Google's headquarters in the USA. A country in which the legislation does not guarantee adequate data protection.

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We use Google Tag Manager on our website, a service of the provider Google Ireland Ltd, Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland with headquarters at Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, both together "Google".

Google Tag Manager is a service for centralised management of various tracking tags (e.g. Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics, Hotjar etc.). Google Tag Manager itself does not collect any data. The tags that collect the data that we manage using Google Tag Manager are listed in this privacy policy.

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We use PrivacyBee on our website, a service provided by PrivacyBee AG, Laupenstrasse 1, 3008 Bern, Switzerland. PrivacyBee is used to recognize all data protection-relevant services and to generate an individual privacy policy for the website.

What data do we process?
PrivacyBee is a service for generating data protection declarations, which are then integrated into our website via JavaScript. The following data is processed for the provision of this service:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system
  • Date and time of access to our privacy policy

For what purpose do we process the data? The collection of this data enables us to display the privacy policy correctly on your end device configuration and to ensure that the content is correct and up to date.

Who do we share the data with?
The transfer of data by us is based on our statements on data transfer. The data collected through the use of PrivacyBee remains with PrivacyBee.

How can you prevent the processing of your data?
To prevent PrivacyBee from processing your data, you can disable JavaScript in your browser. Please note, however, that if you deactivate JavaScript, you may not be able to use all the functions of our website to their full extent. We do not offer a specific opt-out option for the PrivacyBee service itself, as the service is essential for the provision of our privacy policy.