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Together with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Northern State Medical University (NSMU) and Novosibirsk State Medical University, UiT arranges a symposisum based on the Heart to Heart project.  

The main aim of the Heart to Heart project is to explore the differences in population health in general, and cardiovascular health in particular, between Norway and Russia. Data from the Tromsø Study is compared with population data from Arkhangelsk and Novosibrisk in Russia. The main aim of the symposium is to show preliminary results from the project and to attract researchers and funders in order to continue the project.

The symposium will be arranged in Tromsø 25 - 26 September. 

For more information, check out this page.

The symposium discussed global health initiatives springing out of Tromsø’s academic and professional community, and the aspect of solidarity in responses to global health challenges driven by conflict, migration and neoliberal practices across the world.

 More specifically, the programme included presentations and debates under the following headlines:

• Solidarity in health – “Folk-til-folk” (People-to-people) collaboration in practice in north and south
• Social movements: Successful mechanisms to stop austerity measures in healthcare services
• Migrants and indigenous people: minority health care and structural challenges

Click here to see the program.

See available presentations by clicking directly on the name of the presentor in the list below.

OPENING SESSION:

• Paul Farmer - Rights-based approaches to health in a commercialized landscape
• Lars Georg Fordal - Folk-til-folk: the political importance of People-to-people collaboration in the far north

SESSION 1: 

• Hans Husum - Redefining humanitarianism: An old war surgeon's account of the global civil war 
• Margit Steinholt - Obstetrics training in Cambodia
• Nenad Tajsic - Open fracture management in low- resource settings: a medical training experience on limb salvage surgery in Cambodian hospitals 
• Kristine Andreassen - ocial navigation among youths from shanty towns in Haiti: searching for opportunities within a life-threatening environment
• Trond Flægstad - Azithromycin versus placebo for the treatment of HIV-associated chronic lung disease in children and adolescents (BREATHE trial) in Zimbabwe and Malawi
• Gunnar Skov Simonsen - Antibiotic stewardship and conservancy in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Kirsti Henriksen - Solidarity in education 
• Odd Edvardsen - Research school in Cambodia
• Inger Pauline Landsem - Exchanging knowledge and strategies in early care for infants and their families 
• Sergey Kungurtsev - Confronting diabetes in the North – Russian-Norwegian collaboration 
• Anje Höper and Morten Skandfer - Cross-border cooperation from a practical perspective 
• Hilde-Irén Liland - 15 years experience of cooperation with Russia 
• Laila Hopstock - Heart to Heart 
• Tore Sørlie - Cooperation on the development of psychiatric health services in Arkhangelsk Oblast emphasizing relational capital and local anchorage

SESSION 2: 

• Ted Schrecker - Neoliberal epidemics: history, etiology, and a view from Ground Zero 
• Anuj Kapilashrami 1 - International perspectives on neoliberalism: Conflicts, commercialisation & policy capture in global health
• Anuj Kapilashrami 2 - Case for PHM 
• Gunnar Ågren - Neoliberalism and health care – a Nordic perspective 

SESSION 3:

• Bjørn Iversen - Presentation: Global Health Norway 
• Sara Causevic - Presentation: SIGHT
• Nils Daulaire - Global changes - Norwegian response

SESSION 4: 

• Gunn Elin Fedreheim/Inger Marie Holm - Migra-Nord, UiT: A broad approach to migration
• Johanna Laue - Refugee health - and beyond
• Sonja Bjaaland - Structural harm and the lives of undocumented migrants
• Professor Mads Andenæs - Health care policies for migrants/refugees/paperless in Norway