Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation

25/03/2022

Today, a group of Commissioners and collaborators with the Commission on Peaceful Societies write in to condemn the Russian Government’s aggression against Ukraine and its attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, including health workers and hospitals.

The comment highlights the catastrophic health impacts of the war in Ukraine, especially on children, older people, and disabled persons through the Russian military’s indiscriminate use of weaponry and targeting of civilian infrastructure which violate international humanitarian law.

The comment also draws attention to how war in Ukraine is a health and humanitarian catastrophe that will have prolonged health consequences far beyond Ukraine’s borders.

Read the full Comment in The Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00571-2/fulltext?utm_campaign=comment22&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

16/03/2022

Students for Sustainable Development at KI, in collaboration with SIGHT, are hosting their first seminar in the Thursdays for Sustainability at KI series tomorrow on March 17th at 17:00!

Come listen to Dr Maria Neira, the Director of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health at WHO. She is a seasoned public health expert with a breadth of experience, and will speak to us about the threats to public health from environmental pollution and the path towards a cleaner, healthier future.

Join us in the MF building on campus at Karolinska or by zoom. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/661297638417709

06/03/2022

🎧🌳🌍 Don't miss the third episode of the podcast "The World We Want - Youth Voices on Climate and Health", this time with Komal Kumar, Climate Activist from Fiji! Komal offers us her philosophy of engagement through education and how to be taken seriously as a climate and health activist, the importance of ocean ecosystems, taking a stand against tokenism and keeping an open mind when trying to find sustainable solutions.

✅ You find the podcast on your favourite podcast platform (don't forget to subscribe!) or SoundCloud: https://lnkd.in/eMJd4KQa.

The podcast is brought to you by the Prince Mahidol Award Conference in collaboration with Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation FHI 360 BMJ World Health Organization (WHO) USAID - US Agency for International Development World Bank and Foster Media.

In this series, podcast host Jonathan Foster takes a closer look at the lives of youth leaders and activists, discussing the current climate, environment, and health crisis and the possibilities, alte

04/03/2022

We are happy to present Students for Sustainable Development at KI 's Seminar Series, in collaboration with the SIGHT Student Organisations Network. Three exciting seminars are planned in anticipation to the Stockholm+50 conference in June.🌏

📌 This hybrid series is titled "Thursdays for Sustainability at KI" and the recurrent theme is the Interconnectivity between Human and Environmental Health, as well as how the economic, social and environmental pillars of the UN SDGs can guide us towards a better planetary health and a more sustainable future.

📣 The speakers will be announced soon. We are lucky to be joined by high-ranked professionals in areas ranging from healthcare to economics, finance and environmental sciences. Each seminar includes an introduction to the topic and Q&A session, as well as savoury fika and time to mingle with each other.

🍀 For more information, make sure to check out Students for Sustainable Development at KI

22/02/2022

We are excited to announce our first Armchair Session on the 14th of March with Ilona Kickbusch! Register here: https://forms.gle/tzSzpzLGQCunT1eMA

26/01/2022

The second episode of the podcast "The World We Want - Youth Voices on Climate and Health" is live! This episode zooms in on Máximo Mazzocco from Argentina, founder and director of Eco House Global, a youth-led environmental organisation with one of the highest numbers of volunteers in Latin América. Find out about Máximo's philosophy of engagement through education and action where the objective should always be healthy humans living within healthy ecosystems.

You find the podcast on your favourite podcast platform or
SoundCloud: https://lnkd.in/eEeFZ4y2

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The podcast is brought to you by the Prince Mahidol Award Conference in collaboration with Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation FHI 360 BMJ World Health Organization (WHO) USAID - US Agency for International Development World Bank and Foster Media.

Register for the PMAC 2022 virtual conference, which runs from January 26-29, at https://pmac2022.com/

Listen to The World We Want: PMAC Podcast | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.

14/01/2022

🌳🌍💉 Welcome to the high-level virtual session "Scaling up Efforts to Address Climate Crisis and Building Forward Greener", January 27, 14:00 CET. The session will be moderated by Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of the Lancet, and will address the converging crises of climate, environment, and health; megatrends that present current and future threats to our planet and its people.

The session takes place under the Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) 2022, themed "The World We Want: Actions Towards a Sustainable, Fairer and Healthier Society", which runs virtually and onsite in Phuket, Thailand, January 25-29. PMAC is the largest global health conference to be led by a low- or middle-income country and has grown to be one of the most important fora to discuss public health issues of global significance.

The session is coordinated by the Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation World Health Organization (WHO) USAID - US Agency for International Development FHI 360 BMJ and the World Bank.

Welcome to see the full schedule of the conference and register to participate on https://pmac2022.com/. Read more about the session on https://pmac2022.com/activity/6/session/detail

21/11/2021

✨Global Health Night is happening 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆! ✨Take this chance and register for what is promising to be an interesting, insightful and entertaining event. ✨Come and enjoy a fika and pre-event mingle starting at 17:00, followed by an evening of passionate and forward-thinking speakers and panellists.

See you there! 🌎🌍🌏

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-health-night-2021-tickets-190521062627

Technology: a Force for Good in Planetary Health?

01/11/2021

🎙 🌍 🌳 The podcast "The World We Want - Youth Voices on Climate and Health" is LIVE with its first episode!

Take part in global environmental activists' stories from Fiji, Egypt, Argentina, France, India, Thailand and Kenya, their views on current climate and health leadership, hopes for the future, and their expectations for COP26.

You find the podcast on Apple Podcaster, SoundCloud and YouTube (soon available on additional podcast apps).
🍏 https://podcasts.apple.com/th/podcast/pmac-2022-podcast/id1592955623
☁️ https://soundcloud.com/user-884026045/the-world-we-want-youth-voices-on-climate-and-health?si=992f88db80ea424a826200045e68f3ec
💻 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDXRhjbLoP4

🎤 Let us know what you think in the comment section below! ⬇️

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The podcast is brought to you by the Prince Mahidol Award Conference in collaboration with Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation FHI 360 BMJ World Health Organization (WHO) USAID - US Agency for International Development World Bank and http://fostermedia.se/.

Listen to what global youth leaders really think about the handling of our intensifying Climate and Health Emergency.Jonathan Foster gets the unrestricted vi...

29/10/2021

🎙 🌍 🌳 Stay tuned for the podcast "The World We Want - Youth Voices on Climate and Health, Part I", a conversation with a diverse and inspiring group of global activists who talk openly about current leadership in the climate crisis, human stories from their regions, the way climate affects health, expectations for COP26 and hopes for the future.

The podcast is brought to you by the Prince Mahidol Award Conference in collaboration with Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation FHI 360 BMJ World Health Organization (WHO) USAID - US Agency for International Development World Bank and http://fostermedia.se/.

While you wait for the full podcast to go live, get a sneak peek here:

Listen to what global youth leaders really think about the handling of our intensifying Climate and Health Emergency.Jonathan Foster gets the unrestricted vi...

17/09/2021

✨ The SIGHT Fellows Programme 2021-2023 has officially taken off! ✨

The 11 Fellows met for the first time in person in Uppsala 13-14 September, with exciting conversations and connections from day one. Through this programme, funded by Sida, SIGHT aims to strengthen interdisciplinary research and develop collaborations between universities to contribute to implementing the UN's 2030 Agenda. Throughout these two years, the Fellows will explore and develop an interdisciplinary approach to selected themes in global health, such as child and adolescent health, peace and conflict, and climate and environment.

Keep checking SIGHT social media channels to learn more about the Fellows and the programme activities!

10/09/2021

🌍🌳 Don't miss out on the Gordon Goodman Memorial Lecture, to be held by Professor Sir Andy Haines on 15 September 2021, hosted by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm Environment Institute and Stockholm University. The lecture will focus on a crucial topic: the direct and indirect ways in which climate change impacts human health, and solutions that can yield multiple co-benefits for people and our environment.

Read more and register at: https://www.sei.org/events/climate-change-and-health-sir-andy-haines/

Join the Gordon Goodman Lecture on climate change and health, to be held by Sir Andy Haines, Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

07/09/2021

This starts tomorrow! Join our colleagues at Women in Global Health Sweden for four excellently programmed sessions.

02/09/2021

🌍 🌳 Don't miss out on these two upcoming webinars on climate change, environment and population dynamics:

🔸 23-24 September, 15-18 hrs CEST: ”Population and environmental change”, organised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Register at https://www.kva.se/sv/kalendarium/webinar-population-and-environmental-change

🔹 16 September, 16 hrs CEST: "Climate Change and Population Dynamics", organised by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population in association with the Population-Environment Research Network (PERN) and the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS). Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_n4TA18UiSwuWO8KH2TEzcQ

31/08/2021

🔔 LIVE WEBINAR 🔔

Pandemic Preparedness in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Hosted by the World Health Organization (Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office), in partnership with the The Lancet-SIGHT Commission on Peaceful Societies Through Health and Gender Equality, The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response and Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre

🗓️ September 6
⏰ 11am CET

Register now: http://www.emro.who.int/pandemic-epidemic-diseases/news/webinar-on-pandemic-preparedness-and-framework-convention-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-region.html

24/08/2021

🌍 🎨 Welcome to participate in the PMAC 2022 World Art Contest, calling young artists on the topic “The World We Want: Actions Towards a Sustainable, Fairer and Healthier Society”. The submission deadline is 30 September 2021, more details on https://pmac2022.com/artcontest

With the aim to create a more sustainable, health-centric world where all people live better in societies with social, environmental and economic resilience, the Prince Mahidol Award Conference gladly invites everyone to take part in the PMAC 2022 World Art Contest on the topic “The World We Want:...

20/08/2021

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻𝘀!

The SIGHT Student Coordinators are excited to kickstart a new academic year for the Student Organziations Network with the announcement of the theme for this year’s Global Health Night: 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵.

With 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 across the Swedish global health student sphere this year we are feeling ambitious, and aim to make this a year of improvement for the network. In brief, our goals are as follows:

- 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘐𝘎𝘏𝘛 𝘚𝘖𝘕 to foster more interdisciplinary thinking about global health, especially with focus on technology
- Involve student organizations from 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯 to create a wider, more fruitful student ecosystem
- Retain focus on 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 as a central theme of SIGHT
- Continue to organize 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 events, seminars and, of course, the Global Health Night

Looking forward to what this year has to bring!

09/08/2021

✍️ 🌍 As a member of the Prince Mahidol Award Conference Organising Committee, SIGHT is happy to share the flipbook of PMAC 2021/BMJ Collection: “Covid-19: The Road to equity and solidarity”, with contributions from SIGHT staff, collaborators and colleagues.

Further details regarding the collection can be found on the exclusive page of the collection: https://www.bmj.com/pmac-2021