Global Health Norway Conference 2024 : Ensuring healthy futures for today’s children Emerging Trends and Enduring Challenges
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.
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).
Associate Dean (Research), Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research and Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Air Quality, Climate and Health, India
I acquired my undergraduate education at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India and subsequently my doctoral and post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA. Over the last 25 years, I have established one of the largest inter-disciplinary occupational and environmental health research groups in India, at the Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai. I am engaged in research and training collaborations with a network of more than 50 national and international institutional partners to address national and global health research priorities.
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.
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.
Executive Director CWIN
Sumnima Tuladhar has extensive experience in child protection issues, child sexual abuse , online child protection, street children, human trafficking, child participation and children in armed conflict. She has conducted and published various researches on trafficking, child sexual abuse, children and substance use, children in conflict, child labour, etc.
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.