GLOBAL HEALTH. What is the role of health and gender equality in contributing to peaceful, just, and inclusive societies? In partnership with The Lancet, SIGHT (Swedish Institute of Global Health Transformation) at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is hosting an independent and international Commission on peaceful societies through health and gender equality. Countries are working to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a global commitment to create peace and prosperity…
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…
Max Petzold one of eight SIGHT Fellows – new leadership program on global health
CONTRIBUTION. Through a new leadership program on global health, SIGHT (Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation) wants to actively contribute to developing leaders across sector boundaries in order to contribute to the UN’s global sustainability goal according to Agenda 2030. Eight researchers have now been accepted into the program, among them Max Petzold, professor in health science statistics at the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine. The SIGHT institute will…