Archive 2018

• 12 January 2018, 16:00-19:00

  Info meeting for IDA Young Development Professionals Network

  Join Young Development Professionals (YDP) and be a part of an interdisciplinary networkof young professionals with a keen interestin global development.

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• 22 January - 26 January 2018

  PhD course: Pregnancy and programming and later risk of obesity related disease

  PhD course on Pregnancy and programming and later risk of obesity

  Deadline 8 January 2018

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• 26 January 2018, 14:00

  PhD Defence: Antibiotic prescription, dispensing and use practices in rural and urban community in Eastern Region, Ghana

  Antibiotic prescription, dispensing and use practices in Ghana with relevance for antibiotic resistance development

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• 6 February 2018, 12:40-16:00

  Sustainability Seminar Series: Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease

  When: Tuesday 6 February 2018
  Where: CSS Room 2.1.24, University of Copenhagen, CSS Campus, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen

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• 22 February 2018, 16:00-18:00

  COPE Socials: Forcast-based financing: Innovation in preparing for extreme weather

  The Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) is continuing its monthly networking events. There will be cheap cocktails at student/disaster-interested-friendly prices, spirited discussions and some COPE-sponsored snacks. For each meeting, we will invite someone to talk for approximately 30 minutes, followed by a 15 minute Q&A. That’s it. Interesting people, cocktails and disaster and humanitarian related discussions. 

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• 23 February - 25 February 2018

  Smart City Challenge Frederiksberg 2018

  University of Copenhagen | SCIENCE Innovation Hub and the Municipality of Frederiksberg present ’Smart City Challenge Frederiksberg 2018’. Our goal is to solve urban challenges, and you are invited.

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• 2 March 2018, 14:00-15:30

  COPE/Global Health Seminar

  COPE will hold an informal seminar at 14:00-15:30 for COPE and Global Health researchers with talks from Professor Kirsten Bookmiller and Professor Sepideh Yalda from Millersville University.

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• 9 March 2018, 11:00-17:00

  Workshop: Means restriction: where do we go from here?

  ​The main aim of DRISP is to conduct research evaluating suicide preventive initiatives, such as treatment for people at risk of suicide and restriction of access to means of suicide.

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• 9 March 2018, 16:00-19:00

  From chaos to sustainability: Improving healthcare and changing the world

  Masanga.dk invites you to a symposium, which is for anyone who is interested in development and improving healthcare- and systems globally.

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• 15 March 2018, 16:00-18:00

  COPE Socials: The politics of flooding and climate-induced resettlement

  March’s talk will focus on the issue of displacement and climate-induced resettlement due to extreme flooding. We will be focusing on the case of Zambia, a country where the government has planned to resettle entire communities impacted by climate change. Whilst guidelines for this, known as Planned Relocation, are being developed, lessons from the ground show additional points that need to be addressed.

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• 5 April - 14 April 2018

  PhD course: Food, Health and Philosophy in East and West

  International and interdisciplinary PhD course organised in China. For PhD students and R&D professionals interested in food, health and the underlying cultural, philosophical and scientific reasons for specific health views.

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• 5 April 2018, 15:00-16:30

  Seminar on The Epidemiology of Health Promotion in light of Human Ecology

  Epidemiology has produced an analysis of the patterns and of the spread of infectious diseases in defined populations, while attempting to identify the pathogens and the risk factors involved in such epidemic fluctuations.

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• 12 April 2018, 16:00-18:00

  COPE Socials: The Global Refugee Crisis: The Impact on Europe & Denmark

  April’s talk will focus on a defining issue in European politics over the past few years. As governments across Europe and the western world struggle to address the current refugee and migrant crisis, this event will discuss recent developments around the topic and provide commentary on how States can move forward and share responsibility in the management of these issues. 

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• 13 April 2018, 10:15-12:00

  Seminar: Anthropology on gender and violence with Dr. Holly Porter, London School of Economics

  How to do anthropology on gender and violence with Dr. Holly Porter, London School of Economics, UK.

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• 18 April - 19 April 2018

  Nordic Network for Health Policy Workshop

  Invitation to the second workshop of the Nordic Network for Health Policy, Health Management, and Health Services Research

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• 23 April 2018, 14:15-15:30

  Open talk: Illness disclosure and medical vulnerability - diabetes, kinship and therapy in an urban poor Ghanaian community

  Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins is visiting the University of Copenhagen on Monday 23 April and is giving a talk with the title 'Illness disclosure and medical vulnerability: diabetes, kinship and therapy in an urban poor Ghanaian community'.

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• 25 April 2018, 13:00-16:00

  Seminar on The importance of living in Ghetto areas – on health, social life, education and work?

  The so-called ‘Ghetto areas’ in Denmark refer to areas with large neighbourhood ethnic density. These areas are much debated in Danish politics, most lately in the New Year speech of our prime minister. However, what is the evidence behind this debate?

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• 27 April - 29 April 2018

  SheffWHO Simulation

  The simulation is on April 27th-29th, 2018 with registration closing on April 6th, 2018. Delegates can represent a WHO Member State (Country), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Pharmaceutical Companies and Media organisations - to tackle this topical health issue, and create innovative solutions to improve our world.

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• 7 May 2018, 14:00

  PhD Defence: Self-harm in Sri Lanka

  PhD Defence: Self-harm in Sri Lanka 
  Jane Brandt Sørensen
  Title: Self-harm in Sri Lanka – Exploring the role of social norms, alcohol practices and media reporting

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• 8 May 2018, 09:00-12:00

  Symposium on Fixing Diabetes

  Professor Timothy Charles Skinner’s inaugural lecture and the joined conference between Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen and the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen

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• 12 May 2018, 09:30-15:00

  CALIS symposium 2018

  The recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks showed, that epidemic diseases still remain a grave threat to world health. When Ebola struck, the global community was not prepared. Potential vaccines existed but critically they had not yet been proven safe, which delayed assessment of their effectiveness to protect against the disease. Many more diseases exist which are known epidemic threats, but for which we do not have vaccines.

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• 18 May 2018, 13:00-16:00

  PhD Defence: Something old, something new

  PhD defence: Matthew David Phelps

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• 22 May 2018, 09:00-18:00

  Symposium: Embedding innovation in healthcare – opportunities and challenges

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• 28 May 2018, 13:15-15:00

  Policy seminar: Where do you stand?

  Kick off your weekend with a case seminar on policy development based on the HPV-vaccination debate in Denmark and with global perspectives.

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• 31 May 2018, 09:00-12:00

  Open Event: Health in Emergencies - how do we transition from the acute phase to the longer term?

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• 8 June 2018, 09:00-11:30

  Seminar on Health Inequities at the Intersection of Race and Immigration in the United States

  MESU in collaboration with Sirry Alang are pleased to invite you to attend the Seminar on Health Inequities at the Intersection of Race and Immigration in the United States.

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• 20 June 2018, 10:00

  PhD Defence: Applicability of next-generation sequencing for surveillance of anti-malarial resistance in endenmic settings in sub-Saharan Africa

  PhD Defence: Sidsel Nag

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• 25 June 2018, 10:00-11:30

  Open lecture on health inequalities in the UK: What can we learn from the failure of UK efforts to reduce health inequalities?

  The links between socioeconomic deprivation and poor health have been extensively studied in the UK and, since 1997 there have been multiple efforts to develop evidence-informed policy solutions. This talk will explore why, despite explicit efforts to employ evidence in developing policy responses, the UK’s efforts to reduce health inequalities has remained limited.

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• 8 August - 22 August 2018

  Summer Talks

  Summer talks are for all the students at the Summer Courses. You get a unique chance to learnmore and discuss current topics in health care with the invited speakers. You also get drinks, snacksand hygge.

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• 16 August 2018, 16:15-18:00

  Colloquium: 40 years of the Alma Ata declaration

  The aim of the Colloquium is to facilitate the discussion about the extent to which Alma Ata has been implemented in the South American region.

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• 16 August 2018, 2 PM-4 PM

  Building on strengths in Naujaat: The process of engaging Inuit youth in suicide prevention

  MESU invites you to a seminar with the title: Building on strengths in Naujaat: The process of engaging Inuit youth in suicide prevention. 

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• 20 August - 24 August 2018

  2018 annual NorWHO conference

  The organizing committee of NorWHO cordially request the honor of the presence from students at the School of Global Health - University of Copenhagen for the 2018 annual NorWHO conference.

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• 20 August 2018, 09:15-12:00

  Global Health Summer Talks - Copenhagen

  Air pollution presents a huge health burden, especially to urban population where air pollution from traffic is a major source. In this lecture students will be introduced to the main air pollutants, EU limit values for air pollution, and about the levels of air pollution in Copenhagen, which in global perspective, presents low-pollution area

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• 24 August 2018, 10:15-12:00

  Global Health Summer Talks - Copenhagen

  The first lecture will be an introduction to global surgery and the status of surgical services in low and middle-income countries. The second lecture will describe the current status of surgical human resources worldwide and give examples of how non-physician providers can be trained to perform surgery in a concept called task-sharing.

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• 7 September 2018, 10:00-11:00

  Public Health Seminar on Citizen Science - Can public media can be used as a platform for research?

  Join the upcoming public health seminar on citizen science with Claudia Hammond, broadcaster at BBC, writer and psychology lecturer. 

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• 25 September 2018, 13:00-17:00

  Climate and Health Seminar

  Impacts of climate change on human health

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• 26 September 2018, 10:00-17:00

  Mini seminar on health care systems

  Celebrating the 40. Anniversary of Primary Health Care

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• 26 September 2018, 15:15-17:00

  Open talk on Nagayo Sensai: The Japanese Pioneer of Primary Health Care and His Eureka Moments

  Eimi Watanabe's open talk on Nagaya Sensai: The Japanese Pioneer of Primary Health Care and His Eureka Moments will be held Wednesday 26 September 2018 at 15.15-17.00 in Gothersgade Auditorium 1. 

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• 28 September 2018, 13:30-15:00

  Webinar: Winds of Change over Turbulent Seas: the Future of Refugee and Migrant Health in Europe

  The upcoming webinar will discuss the challenges and opportunities in improving the health of refugees and migrants in the context of changing political and social landscape in Europe. The event will be live streamed live from the School on Refugee and Migrant Health in Palermo, Italy.

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• 9 October 2018, 14:00-16:00

  CAGE public seminar: Policies and practices for supporting refugee minors

  Tuesday 9 October, 2018, 14.00-16.00 at 5.0.22, CSS Campus

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• 14 October - 16 October 2018

  World Health Summit 2018 10th anniversary

  For its 10th anniversary, the World Health Summit will again gather more than 2000 international experts from academia, politics, the private sector, and civil society to work together on solutions to Global Health challenges.

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• 23 October 2018, 14:30-15:30

  Meet Research Superstar Dr. Robert Langer from MIT

  Come to an inspirational talk by chemical and biomedical engineer Dr. Robert Langer; one of the world's ten most cited researchers and leader of one of the most productive and profitable research facilities.

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• 30 October 2018, 13:15-15:00

  Seminar on Social Network Organization of Health

  The Centre of Healthy Ageing and Asian Dynamics Initiative invite you to a seminar with Yoosik Youm, Professor of Sociology, Yonsei University

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• 5 November 2018, 09:00-17:00

  Behavioural Design Case Competition

  Application deadline: 24 September 2018

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• 19 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

  Open talk on: What does the future hold for young people in Ukraine: Peace or Powerlessness?

  UNFPA Representative in Ukraine Caspar Peek will talk about the current situation in Ukraine, in light of the continued locked political situation and the ongoing armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.

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• 23 November 2018, 13:00-15:00

  Seminar: Causal inference in observational studies? New designs and analytical methods in public health research

  Alex Burdorf professor in Public Health and head of the department of Public Health at Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam will present alternative designs and analytical methods for the evaluation of public health interventions in observational studies.

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• 6 December 2018, 14:00-17:00

  PhD Defence: Ho Tan Thanh Binh

  Causes of death in hospitalized neonates in Vietnam with emphasis on asphyxia and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy

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