COLLABORATION. Peter Friberg’s many years of dedication to global health issues are now paying dividends, in the form of a new national research institute, the Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation (SIGHT). The Institute has been made possible thanks to a substantial donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and will be based at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) in Stockholm. “We live in a global world…
Henrik Sjövall: “A unique opportunity to acquire knowledge of migration and health”
INTERDISCIPLINARITY. Globalization and migration are currently changing the world and the foundations on which it is based. A new cross-university center is currently being established at the Faculty of Social Sciences, aimed at, among other things, facilitating more fact-based debate in society. Henrik Sjövall, who is representing the Sahlgrenska Academy in this steering group, believes that the center is a unique opportunity to acquire new knowledge in a field that…
Holistic healing with the help of person-centred care structured as the One Stop Center Care model – seminar report
GLOBAL HEALTH. Dr Denis Mukwege from DR Congo, visited Gothenburg on 17th October, where he addressed a large audience at The University of Gothenburg’s Global Challenges seminar. Dr Mukwege has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times. He has received many awards for his work, such as the Olof Palme Prize, the Right Livelihood Award, the United Nations Human Rights Prize, the EU Sakharov Prize, and, just recently…
First day for new Master’s Program in Global Health
EDUCATION. 28 students representing nine different nationalities have been admitted to the university’s new Master’s Program in Global Health. The program is being offered through a collaboration between four different faculties, with Salgrenska Academy serving as the host faculty. Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, Greece, Uganda, Mexico, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan and Sweden – the students of the new master’s program come from all over the world. Some are trained doctors, but a…
Medical student provides greater access to medical information on Wikipedia
STUDENT. Initially he used Wikipedia as an aid for his own studies, then he began to discover minor errors or formulas that he could clarify and improve. Now, medical student, Carl Fredrik Sjöland, is active in the comprehensive international translation project intended to make medical information accessible to people in developing countries. During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, traditional media such as CNN, the BBC, or WHO was not…