
“The healthcare sector often overestimates its importance for global health”
In Swedish “The healthcare sector often overestimates its importance for global health” Claims the 2017 Einhorn SIGHT Award winner, Andreas Mårtensson. Proper health care starts

“Hälso- och sjukvården överskattar ofta sin egen betydelse för global hälsa”
In English Av Ulrica Segersten • Porträtt: Uppsala Universitet Professor Andreas Mårtensson vid Uppsala universitet (International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), var den första global

The Art of Saving the World
Sedan 2017 har Familjen Einhorns stiftelse delat ut Einhorn SIGHT Award för att stimulera framstående arbete inom global hälsoforskning i låg- och medelinkomstländer. Den 22 november är det dags igen för prisutdelning.

Konsten att rädda världen
Sedan 2017 har Familjen Einhorns stiftelse delat ut Einhorn SIGHT Award för att stimulera framstående arbete inom global hälsoforskning i låg- och medelinkomstländer. Den 22 november är det dags igen för prisutdelning.

Ulf Magnusson: “Disease prevention does not win elections for decision makers”
Ulf Magnusson, licensed Swedish veterinarian, Diplomate of the European College of Animal Reproduction and Professor of Animal Reproduction at the Department of Clinical Sciences at

Jordens och människans hälsa möts
In English ”Det finns vetenskapliga belägg för att vi har en kris” Deliang Chen, professor i fysikalisk meterologi och medlem i FN:s klimatpanel möter Peter

The health of the Earth and its people are linked
In Swedish “There is scientific proof that we are in a crisis” Deliang Chen, Professor in Physical Meteorology and a member of the UN’s climate

Gabriel Wikström, Swedish national coordinator for 2030 Agenda
“The 2030 Agenda is a tremendous reason to do much more for the health of children and adolescents” Text: Ulrica Segersten Gabriel Wikström, formerly minister

Suwit Wibulpolprasert, senior health official in Thailand
“Trust is the main element of global solidarity.” Text: Ulrica Segersten A year ago, still unaware of what was to come with the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Ebba Malmqvist, Associate Professor at Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University
“I am happy to see research on environmental health getting the position in global health research it needs in times like these” SIGHT Award 2020

Pam Fredman, President of IAU and SAC, SIGHT Advisory Committee
An open window Early rays of spring sun light up the room. Pam Fredman is sitting in her summer house and we meet through our

President Tarja Halonen, Chair of the commission
The new and international cross-discipline Lancet commission spearheading peace, health and gender equality issues comes at a perfect time, says Tarja Halonen, former President of

Peter Wallensteen, Senior Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University
”Academic diplomacy is undervalued” Peter Wallensteen, Senior Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, gives exactly the kind of mild and peaceful impression

Maria Nilsson, associate professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Global Health at Umeå University
Dr Nilsson on climate change: “Impact on human health could make us wake up.” Research on the impact of climate change on human health still

Johanna Lindahl, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala university
“It’s good to get more attention to how global health and One health are interconnected” Johanna Lindahl, an associate professor and active at the International