Programme
For speakers and workshops, please see specific pages
Wednesday 18th April 2018
| 09.00-11.00 | Global Health 101 – an introduction for beginners Alice Claeson, Swedish Society of Medicine´s Student and Junior Doctor Section Mikaela Engwall, United Nations Association Sweden/FN-förbundet Vera Wellander Lindén, Effective Altruism Stockholm School of Economics (Separate registration is necessary!) |
| 10.00-13.00 | Registration and Lunch |
| 13.00-13.25 | Opening Ole Petter Ottersen, Vice-chancellor of Karolinska Institutet Representatives from the Swedish Society of Medicines committee for Global Health |
| 13.25-13.40 | Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Ola Rosling, Gapminder Foundation |
| 13.40-14.20 |
Setting the Stage - Perspectives on Global Health Research |
| 14.25-15.20 | Gaps and opportunities in Global Health Research Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Swedish minister for higher education and research Yolanda M Sánches Castro, master student in global health, Gothenburg University Kristina Gemzell, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Karolinska Institutet Hampus Holmer, PhD candidate in Surgery and Global Health, Lund University Kerstin Sahlin, Secretary General of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Swedish Research Council Anders Nordström, Swedish ambassador for global health Moderators: Dorcus Kiwanuka Henriksson, Research Officer Karolinska Institutet, and Göran Tomson, Co-founder and senior advisor Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation |
| 15.20-15.30 | Introduction to parallel workshops: Global Health - Global Agenda - Global Goals - Global Actions Moderators: Helena Nordenstedt, Karolinska Institutet and Gapminder, and Raman Preet, Umeå University |
| 15.30-16.10 | Health break and inspiration (poster session and fika break) Moderators: Karin M Franzén, Örebro University and Jaran Eriksen, Karolinska Institutet |
| 16.10-17.10 | Parallel workshops: Global Health - Global Agenda - Global Goals - Global Actions How can your research and commitment contribute to the 2030 Agenda and how can it be implemented? What are the challenges with aligning with the 2030 Agenda? |
| 17.10-17.50 | Short reports from workshops Moderators: Helena Nordenstedt, Karolinska Institutet and Gapminder, and Raman Preet, Umeå University |
| 17.50-18.00 | Wrap-up Stefan Lindgren, Swedish Society of Medicine |
| 19.00 | Dinner and entertainment. Venue: Svenska Läkaresällskapets hus Pre-reservation is necessary! |
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Thursday 19th April 2018 |
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| 09.00-09.15 | Welcome back Moderators: Cecilia Ståhlsby Lundborg, professor Karolinska Institutet, Separtment of Public Health Sciences and Mats Målqvist, associate professor, International Maternal and Child Health, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University |
| 09.15-10.15 | From research to implementation - success stories Sharon Fonn, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Kidanto Hussein, Aga Khan University, Dar es Saalam Nana Poku, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban Nobhojit Roy, National Health systems Resource centre, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Maria-Teresa Bejarano, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Moderators: Asli Kulane, Karolinska Institutet, and Helena Frielingsdorf, Linköping University |
| 10.15-10.25 | Introduction to parallel workshops: Joint challenges Moderators: Anna Mia Ekström, Karolinska Institutet and Karin Båge, Karolinska Institutet |
| 10.25-11.10 | Health break and inspiration (poster session and fika break) Moderators: Karin M Franzén, Örebro University and Jaran Eriksen, Karolinska Institutet |
| 11.10-12.10 |
Parallel workshops: Joint challenges Topics: |
| 12.10-13.00 | Short reports from workshops Moderators: Anna-Mia Ekström, Professor Karolinska Institutet and Karin Båge, Course and Project Coordinator, Karolinska Institutet |
13.00-14.15 |
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| 14.15-16.45 |
Parallel workshops: Deeper understanding and closer collaboration within Global Health Research |
| 16.45-17.00 | Closing Anders Gustafsson, Dean of Research, Karolinska Institutet, Marie Hasselberg, Head of Department, Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet and Representative from the Swedish Society of Medicine |
18.00 |
Global Health Night Stand-alone event organised by students from Karolinska Institutet More information: www.globalhealthnight.se |
