EDUCATION. For the first time since the pandemic broke out, an in-person poster exhibition of the medical program’s degree projects was held on Thursday, but there was no mingling around the posters. Instead, the students were summoned to the Conference Centre Wallenberg to present their work in small groups spread out during the day according to a set schedule. The event continued throughout Thursday to ensure that it could be…
Jan Holmgren awarded world’s biggest global health award
year’s recipients of Prince Mahidol’s Award in Public Health. He is receiving the award for leading the development of the world’s first effective drinkable cholera vaccine and also for transferring the technology, so the vaccine can be produced on location in developing countries. Along with this year’s runner-up, American Professor John Clemens, he has also shown that the cholera vaccine has the potential to eradicate cholera in developing countries. “This…
Fast-acting antidote in sight for cholera epidemics
NEW STUDY. Groundbreaking discoveries regarding the onset of cholera are paving the way for a future, fast-acting antidote for cholera epidemics, according to research published in the journals PLOS Pathogens and ACS Infectious Disease. “This is not about a vaccine but rather a drinkable protection that can be distributed during an ongoing cholera epidemic to reduce its spread, a drink that blocks the cholera toxin so that it doesn’t…
Medical students return from Uganda with powerful impressions
STUDENTS. It was supposed to be an ordinary thesis project, but it came to mean much more. After seven weeks in Uganda, the students have developed both personally and in their future professional roles. Now they are encouraging other medical students to choose to specialize in global health and to take advantage of the chance to go abroad. “The other day, I was about to throw away a t-shirt that…
New students in public health science and global health mingled
EDUCATION. The autumn semester has gotten started and the students are back at Sahlgrenska Academy. Akademiliv was on hand this Thursday when new students were welcomed to the Public Health Science Program with Health Economics and the two international master’s programs, the Master’s Program in Global Health and the Master’s Program in Public Health Science with Health Economics. [See more pictures from this welcome mixer further down] Muwada Bashir, Ginika Uwakwe…