Global Health Norway Conference 2024 : Ensuring healthy futures for today’s children Emerging Trends and Enduring Challenges

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Ensuring healthy futures for today’s children Emerging Trends and Enduring Challenges

Join us in Tromsø for the Global Health Conference, scheduled for October 23-24, 2024, at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. This conference will focus on pivotal aspects of global health, with an emphasis on the following themes:

  • Healthy Start: Delve into strategies for ensuring a healthy trajectory from pregnancy through neonatal care, encompassing healthy pregnancies, management of prematurity, delivery, and neonatal health. Discussions will explore how early life interventions can prevent long-term health conditions and promote optimal development.

  • Exposures: Examine the impact of environmental and behavioral exposures, including contaminants like lead and air pollution, as well as substance use during pregnancy, childhood, and adolescence. Learn about effective programs and policies aimed at prevention, mitigation, and treatment.

  • Mental Health: Address the mental health challenges faced by children and adolescents, the influence of family dynamics, and the specific needs of vulnerable groups and those in conflict zones. Explore current programs and policies designed to support mental well-being in the younger population.

  • Preventing and Mitigating NCDs: Understand the early determinants and factors contributing to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) with origins in childhood and adolescence. Engage in discussions about preventive measures and policies that can reduce the risk of NCDs later in life.

This conference will bring together experts, practitioners, and policymakers to share insights and foster collaboration in the field of global health. We look forward to welcoming you to an event that promises to be both informative and transformative.

Starter: 23.10.24 kl 16.00
Slutter: 24.10.24 kl 16.00
Hvor: UiT Campus - MH bygget plan 6, Store Auditorium og Auditorium 7
Sted: Tromsø
Målgruppe: Ansatte, Studenter, Gjester / eksterne, Inviterte
Kontakt: Erik Eik Anda
E-post: erik.anda@uit.no

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Foredragsholdere

Berit Mortensen

Berit Mortensen

Associate Professor Fakultet for helsevitenskap – Institutt for sykepleie og helsefremmende arbeid


Berit Mortensen has been practicing midwifery since 1992. Since 1987, she has worked with international solidarity and health projects in Palestine and Lebanon, as a nurse, midwife and project manager for the organization Norwegian Aid Committee (NORWAC).

Helga Fogstad

Helga Fogstad

Director of Health - UNICEF


Strongly committed to human rights, public health, and gender issues, Ms. Fogstad has extensive experience in forging partnerships and consensus building to promote the health and well-being of women, children, and adolescents.

Nino Dzotsenidze

Nino Dzotsenidze

Environmental Health Officer at UNICEF Georgia


She is an Environmental Health Officer at UNICEF Georgia leading the environmental health agenda since April 2021. She is also the Georgia CO focal point for Healthy Environment for Healthy Children project which deals with the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, including lead exposure and air pollution. Within this project UNICEF Georgia CO supports the Government in combating lead exposure in children through respective policy and legislative work, laboratory capacity building and establishment of environmental health surveillance system.

Kumar Bhattarai

Kumar Bhattarai

CWIN-Nepal


Mr. Kumar Bhattarai has been actively involved in the Child Rights Movement in Nepal since 1995, working with CWIN-Nepal, a pioneering and leading child rights organization in the country. Currently, he serves as the Programme Director and spokesperson of CWIN-Nepal. In this capacity, he coordinates CWIN's projects and programs, focusing on advocacy, community engagement, networking, alliance building, education support, and child participation programs. He is also actively engaged in advocacy for the development of alcohol policies in Nepal, as well as in child and adolescent mental health initiatives led by CWIN.

Mark Petticrew

Mark Petticrew

Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom


Mark Petticrew is Professor of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom. He is Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Public Health Policy Research Unit. His main research interests are in evidence-based policymaking, and the evaluation of the effects on health of social and other policies. His work also has a strong focus on the commercial determinants of health – in particular, the influence of unhealthy commodity industries on health (e.g. through the promotion of tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy foods). He is a collaborator in the SPECTRUM Consortium which investigates the commercial determinants of health and health inequalities. He was a founding member of the Cochrane/Campbell Health Equity Methods Group, which develops methods of incorporating an equity perspective into systematic reviews.

Johanne Sundby

Johanne Sundby

Professor emeritus UiO


People Academic staff Johanne Sommerschild Sundby Department of Community Medicine and Global Health Professor in Global Reproductive Health. Teaching M.Phil. PhD and Medical students Global health research: Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia and the Gambia Topics are reproductive and maternal health and rights Have been UIO board member, leads ISS (Summer School) board, member of Forum for Global Health board and the board of global health research school. Member of STAG, HRP, WHO, Geneve 6 years Lead a NOU on Women's health in Norway