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We are now looking for new part time Student Coordinators who can contribute to the SIGHT secretariat with their student perspective and help in organizing
COVID-19
Content about 2019 novel coronavirus disease. Links to rolling updates. The Lancet: To assist health workers and researchers working under challenging conditions to bring this
Road Safety Consultation at SIGHT
By Aber Ahmad & Lydia Shotton As part of one of our Student Coordinator’s participation in the 2nd World Youth Assembly for Road Safety, we
Student Feedback on SIGHT Award event: Better health for refugee women and children
Megdelawit Ayele Shomoroo, Master’s Programme in Public Health Science- Specialization in Health Equality, University of Gothenburg, First-year student “Being part of the annual SIGHT award
Årets SIGHT Award till forskning för bättre förlossningsvård i låg- och medelinkomstländer
Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation har tilldelat forskaren och läkaren Claudia Hanson, vid Karolinska Institutet, årets SIGHT Award på 100 000 kronor. Hon är
SIGHT GOES UGANDA
”Scientists can help achieving the SDGs” 15t–18th September 2019 Professor Göran Tomson, co-founder of SIGHT, gave lectures at Makerere University in Uganda on the role of
A new roadmap on global child health
Human rights are still merely an abstract concept for millions of women, children, and adolescents – and for our youngest progress is often defined as
Second meeting with WGH Sweden: “There is still a shortage of women in leadership positions”
Women in Global Health Sweden organized a 2nd meeting on June 17th, at the Karolinska Institutet. The attending 25 participants were there to discuss the
Seeking long and healthy lives for generations to come
A youth-led conversation was held at The Swedish Society of Medicine, in which Director General of WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Seth Berkley from Gavi the Vaccine Alliance
Next steps for Women in Global Health Sweden
Some glad news is that the global network of Women in Global Health is growing, with more chapters in Somalia and a regional African hub launched in Kigali, Rwanda.
SIGHT goes Kuala Lumpur
By Wiebke Mohr Wiebke Mohr, SIGHT student coordinator, and SIGHT Director Peter Friberg were representing SIGHT at the IAU 2018 International Conference in Kuala Lumpur,
One Health: Antibiotic resistance, zoonotic diseases and food security in focus for SIGHT Award 2018
9 November 2018 Johanna Lindahl, senior scientist in veterinary-epidemiology, is awarded the SIGHT Award 2018 and SEK 100 000 from the Swedish Institute for Global
Antibiotikaresistens och interaktionen människa och djur i fokus för SIGHT Award 2018
9 November 2018 Det är Johanna Lindahl, forskare inom veterinär-epidemiologi, som får priset och 100 000 kronor från Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation, SIGHT.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2018 – putting an end to sexual violence in armed conflict
5 October 2018 SIGHT congratulates the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Nadia Murad, a survivor of sexual violence in armed conflict and a human rights
Partnering with Swedish global health top events of the year
30 April 2018 Known as the Swedish global health top events of the year, SIGHT partnered with and participated in “The Swedish Global Health Research
SIGHT fellow to the European Academies Science Advisory Council
3 April 2018 Maria Nilsson, SIGHT fellow and Associate professor/researcher at the Unit of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, has been invited by the
WHO Director-General in unique Stockholm meeting with students
14 February 2018 – Students are important advisors for WHO, the World Health Organisation’s director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says, at a unique Sweden visit.
SIGHT Award – new global health prize inaugurated
13 November 2017 Today the newly established SIGHT Award is publicly announced for the first time. The Swedish professor Andreas Mårtensson receives the prize for
