Eva Soom Ammann

Prof. Dr. Eva Soom Ammann is a medical anthropologist and senior researcher at the School of Health Professions, Bern University of Applied Sciences, leading the Innovation Field Psycho-Social Health. Her work focuses on diversity in healthcare, long-term care, palliative care, and ethnographic research, particularly addressing migration, aging, and end-of-life practices.

• Research Interests: Diversity and inequality in healthcare, migration and aging, palliative care, qualitative methods.
• Projects: Toolkit Screening for Loneliness, Pandemic Objects, Activation in Long-Term Care, Sterbesettings studies.
• Publications: Over 20 peer-reviewed articles (2004–2025), book chapters, and edited volumes on migrant healthcare, aging, and institutional dying.

Her recent work examines post-mortem care practices in Swiss nursing homes, emphasizing how caregivers reconstruct a 'good death' amidst societal diversity. She collaborates internationally on projects like MANUS (migration of nursing professionals) and ReachOut (SNSF-funded research).