Program

16:00-16:30

16:30-16:50

The organising committee
Anne Husebekk 
^{Director for the Centre for Ocean and The Arctic and former Principal at UiT The Arctic University of Norway}
Silje Wangberg
^{Pro-Dean Research Education and Clinical Training, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway}
Ane-Marthe Solheim Skar
^{Research Professor, Chair of Global Health Norway, Scientific Director, Global Health Cluster, Division of Health Services at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health}

16:50-17:15

Looking back. 30 years of capacity building in global health, where are we now?
Johanne Sundby
^{Professor Emerita, Department of Health and Society, University of Oslo}

Midwives in Gaza struggling for healthy starts
Berit Mortensen
^{Associate Professor, Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, OsloMet} 

Research and academic life in war times
Yuliia Vernyhor
^{National University of Kyiv}

18:20-18:40

From Progress to Peril- the impact of Myanmar's military coup on healthcare and humanitarian crisis
Aung Soe Htet
^{Researcher, Department of Community Medicine UiT the Arctic University of Norway}

18:40-18:50

Title TBD
Federico Saracini
^{PhD student, Dublin City University}

18:50-19:00

19:00-19:45

Protecting Our Future: Tackling Childhood Lead Poisoning in Georgia
Nino Dzotsenidze
^{Environmental Health Officer at UNICEF Georgia}

PFAS associated with immunomodulatory biomarker signatures in a cross-sectional study of an adolescent population
Sunday Oluwafemi Oyeyemi
^{Postdoctoral researh fellow, Department of Community Medicine UiT the Arctic University of Norway}

Maternal blood lead levels during pregnancy, Adjara Georgia (2020-2023)
Sophio Sikharulidze
^{PhD student, University of Georgia}

Ensuring children’s futures
Gagan Gupta
^{Senior Advisor, UNICEF Headquarters}

Gayle Amul
^{Advisor FORUT, Non-Resident Research Fellow, Ateneo de Manila University} 

Caregiver-reported alcohol consumption by children 6-13 years old in eastern Uganda
Ingunn Marie S. Engebretsen
^{Professor Centre for International health, University of Bergen}

Nina Emaus
^{Professor Department of Health and care sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway}

Tracking of overweight and obesity from early childhood to adolescence
Elin Evensen
^{Associate Professor Department of health and care sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway}

The Georgian Birth Registry - competence collaboration
Erik Eik Anda
^{Professor Global health and epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway}

The Process of Reviewing Maternal Deaths in Tanzania
Kerstin Almdal
^{PhD student, Department of global public health and primary care, University of Bergen}

Determinants of malnutrition among under-five children in Malawi
Mbachi Ruth Msomphora
^{Associate Professor Department of health and care sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway}

LUNCH

Building on Niger’s 70 % reduction of postpartum haemorrhage’s contribution to maternal mortality
Anders Seim
^{Executive Director, Health and Development International}

How the presence of volunteers and unpaid healthcare workers impact on fees-exempted patients in Sierra Leone
Federico Saracini
^{PhD student, Dublin City University}

Caregivers’ perceived beliefs about hydroxyurea use in management of children with sickle cell disease in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Mwashungi Ally
^{PhD student, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences}

 BREAK

14:20-14:45

14:45-15:15

Mental health 

Implementing the TREAT INTERACT intervention for primary school teachers and the mhGAP for health care workers for child mental health promotion in Uganda
Ane-Marthe Solheim Skar
^{Research Professor, Chair of Global Health Norway, Scientific Director, Global Health Cluster, Division of Health Services at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health}

Informal use of mobile phones among community level healthcare workers in India
Vaishnavi Mangal
^{PhD student, Institute of Health sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology}

15:15-15:25

15:25-15:45

15:45-16:00

Closing and introduction to next GHN conference
Current and future organising committee