Akademiliv congratulates Jahangir A. M. Khan, who is now a professor of health economics. He researches the development of universal health coverage (UHC) in different countries, ie society’s ability to provide access to the health services they need, with sufficient quality, and at an affordable price, to all residents (SDG objective 3.8). To achieve this goal, the collection of revenue for healthcare in the society, and its efficient and fair use is crucial. Jahangir Khan’s research includes, among other things, health care financing, health insurance, expenditure due to health disasters and its effects on poverty, as well as financial evaluation of health interventions. The research is based on health economics theories and relevant empirical studies.

Akademiliv congratulates Tove Hedenrud, who is now a professor of community pharmacy. This field of science is multidisciplinary and highlights the role of medicines for patients, professions and society. Tove Hedenrud leads the research group MEDUP, whose vision is to contribute to an equal and rational drug treatment and drug use, with social sustainability and the environment as important perspectives. Her research is about perceptions, attitudes and behaviors related to the prescribing and use of drugs among prescribers and users, including in the treatment of asthma. She is also developing a Swedish, generic instrument for measuring adherence to treatment with inspiration from philosophical concepts. Tove Hedenrud teaches within the Pharmacy Program.

Joakim Larsson, professor at the Institute of Biomedicine and director of the Center for Antibiotic Resistance Research, CARe, receives funding within the national research program on antibiotic resistance, which is a program in collaboration between the Swedish Research Council, the Public Health Agency, the National Board of Health and Welfare, and several other Swedish authorities. Joakim Larsson was also recently elected as a scientific advisor at the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance, JPIAMR, which coordinates international research on antibiotic resistance. Read an interview with Joakim Larsson on the Swedish Research Council’s website (in Swedish).

GU Gants and Innovations office invites PhD students and researchers interested in, or are working with utilization to share experiences, inspire each other, raise questions, and foster an inclusive environment of utilization within the University of Gothenburg.

This fall we have had two truly inspiring researchers who have presented on the themes of: collaborations as a part of securing research funding and the student perspective of working with researchers in innovation projects. There are two lunch seminars to come this fall on these themes; the journey from idea-to-company and how it is to work with students in utilization projects.

• November 26th: Johan Hogmalm, From basic research to founding a company.
• December 17th: Robert Lowe, Company, Student & Research partnership for utilization. 

Format:  12.10 – 12.50, one researcher presents for 10 minutes. Then an open discussion.

The lunch seminars are held in English.

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Due to the train project Västlänken, the Social Sciences Library (formerly KTB) will be evacuated from mid-December 2020 until autumn 2024. The new address for the library will be Föreningsgatan 20, the same block as the large examination hall. The library continues to offer same service. All textbooks, journals and other books are moved, but older newspapers and microfilms will with few exceptions be unavailable until September 2022. All types of study places as well as reading disability studios will be offered, but the study places will be reduced to 100. Read further on the website of the University Library.

In this online course we problematize and discuss the challenges of using AI in different professions.

The course opens on the 1st of September 2021, but you can join whenever you want until late December 2021.

Software, machine learning and artificial intelligence have changed our lives in the last two decades. Everything from the fundamental infrastructure to advanced applications use computers and software. Artificial intelligence and machine learning take advantages of the prevalence of software and data, providing us with new possibilities.

In this course, we problematize and discuss the challenges of using AI in different professions. We present how AI influences medicine, education, journalism, and law. We start the course with presenting the technology around AI – neural networks, data mining and visualization and legal aspects of using AI. Then, we move to modules that present the use of AI in professions.

The course is given as an online course, where the participants can read each module in their own pace. During the autumn 2021, there will be coordinated Q&A sessions with the teachers, to ask questions.

Lecturers: Elena Raviola, Simon Dobnik, Mats Granath, Rob Lowe, and Miroslaw Staron

For more information and registration: 

Open On-line ourse: AI and Professions

The food truck Tikka Roti is open weekdays 11: 00-13: 30 and is parked in the parking lot outside Academicum. In addition to its usual range of Indian and Pakistani dishes, the food truck adds street food from other parts of the world, which is allowed to make guest appearances two weeks at a time. At the end of the year, dishes from North Africa are offered.

• Week 44-45 (November 1 – 12) street food from Algeria is offered
• Week 46-47 (November 15-26) street food from Libya is offered
• Week 48-49 (November 29-December 10) offers street food from Egypt
• Week 50-51 (December 13-23) offers street food from Morocco

The Arvid Carlsson Foundation has decided to award two recipients of the foundation’s grand prize for outstanding research in the spirit of Arvid Carlsson: professors Lars Farde and Kjell Fuxe at Karolinska Institutet. Lars Farde was among the first to apply advanced positron emission tomography to address clinically important psychiatric issues and was rewarded for a long list of significant work, including on the workings of psychotropic drugs. Kjell Fuxe is a true pioneer in transmission research who has been rewarded for his pioneering studies of the proliferation of monoaminergic neurons, dopaminergic receptor agonists, receptor-receptor interactions and brain volume transmission. The prize consists of a diploma and SEK 700,000.

At the same time, Professor Mia Ericson, University of Gothenburg, receives SEK 400,000 for interesting studies of the importance of dopaminergic mechanisms for alcohol dependence.

The Center for Ethics, Law and Mental Health (CELAM) has been awarded an additional SEK 15 million by the Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) to strengthen the evidence base for Swedish forensic psychiatry. The funds mean an extension to 2021 for the national research program FORevidence, which develops evidence-based practice in forensic psychiatry through interdisciplinary mapping and method development. The research program has thus been awarded a total of 30 million over a period of 6 years, which is the most comprehensive research program ever in the forensic psychiatric research area in Sweden.