Global hälsa-podden

In time for Swedish Midsummer we release our next episode – this time focusing on the 2030 Agenda! We invited Gabriel Wikström, national coordinator for the Sustainable Development Goals in Sweden, and Raman Preet, International Research Coordinator and Equal Opportunity Officer at the Deptartment of Epidemiology and Global Health of Umeå University. It became a personal discussion on their commit...

In this episode, we will discuss the lessons we can learn from the COVID-19 pandemic to reimagine global health education and seize opportunities to increase solidarity and collaboration across the Global North and South. Salla Atkins is the first author of a recently published article in BMJ Journal “Using the COVID-19 pandemic to reimagine Global Health teaching in high-income countries”, coauth...

This week's episode is in Swedish. We will be back in two weeks with a longer episode in English! I veckans avsnitt pratar vi med Sofia Hammarstrand, känd för sitt arbete för miljön och mottagare av Svenska Läkaresällskapets Hållbarhetspris 2020. I podden berättar Sofia blandat hur hennes engagemang började, om hur klimatförändringar påverkar människors hälsa, och kommer med förslag på vad läkare...

In this episode we go Heart to Heart with Anders Nordström. Anders Nordström is Sweden’s ambassador for global health, one of the few in the world. However, with the Covid-19 pandemic creating a paradigm shift for global health, Anders was appointed the head of the secretariat of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR), which is chaired by Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson...

In this episode we are joined by four students with different educational backgrounds but a shared commitment for global health. We talk about their view on global health, its connection to social and economic inequities and how students contribute to the constant evolvement of the global health field. Participating guests: Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori is a master student at Uppsala University a...

In this second episode in our Global Health 101 series we dig deep into the history of global health. We will take you on a journey from the early days, before the existence of the term global health to today's work to decolonize the field. In December 2020, we were joined by our guests Mats Målqvist, associated professor of International Health at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health a...

The Swedish global health podcast is back with a Global Health 101 series! During several episodes, our interviewers will explore topics related to global health. In this episode, our guests Miguel San Sebastian (professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University Hospital)and Flemming Konradsen (professor and director at the School of Global Health, University of Copenh...

In April 2019, a youth-led panel with representatives from youth and student organizations and global health leaders took place at our house in Stockholm. Before the panel, we hade the opportunity to sit down with Peter Sands (Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) and Dr Seth Berkley (CEO of Gavi the Vaccine Alliance) to discuss their respective work and pe...

In this episode of the Swedish Global Health Podcast, we interview Dr. Angelina Kakooza, child neurologist and co-founder of the East African Academy of Childhood and Disability. We will discuss her work, research on developmental delays and disabilities, particularly the prevalence of and support for Children with cerebral palsy in Uganda. Dr. Kakooza also gives us some inside tips on successful...

The Swedish Global Health Podcast - A Podcast about Global Health and Sustainable Development is aimed at anyone interested in knowing more about this exciting topic! It is co-produced by the Swedish Society of Medicine's Committee for Global Health and the Swedish Society of Medicine's student and junior doctor section. The first episode consists of two parts. In the first part of Episode 1, we i...

The Swedish Global Health Podcast - A Podcast about Global Health and Sustainable Development is aimed at anyone interested in knowing more about this exciting topic! It is co-produced by the Swedish Society of Medicine's Committee for Global Health and the Swedish Society of Medicine's student and junior doctor section. The first episode consists of two parts. In the second part of Episode 1, we...