Event
Stockholm Public Health Lecture – Climate change and global child and adolescent health: what can be done?
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Date: March 31, 2025
On 31 March 2025, join the Department of Global Public Health at Karolinska Institutet in collaboration with Center for Epidemiology and Community Medicine Region Stockholm for a public health lecture exploring how climate change impacts children’s and adolescents’ health and wellbeing, and the challenges and opportunities from a global research perspective.
About the speaker
Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta is a world-renowned expert and physician inglobal maternal and child health research and public policy. He leads large research teams in Pakistan and many other regions in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with the goal of reducing child mortality rates globally and providing innovative solutions to maternal and child health challenges.
Dr Bhutta is the Founding Director of the Institute of Global Health & Development across the Aga Khan University campuses in South-Central Asia and East Africa, and Co-Director of SickKids’ Centre for Global Child Health, Toronto, Canada. He holds the Distinguished Fellowship in Climate Change, Food Systems and Child Nutrition, at the Lawson Centre at the University of Toronto.
He has been recognized globally for his work with some of the highest awards such as the Roux Prize (2021), Canada Gairdner Global Health Award (2022), the Friesen Prize in International Health Research (2023) and the Rosén von Rosenstein Award (2024). He was recently awarded Canada’s highest civil award as an officer of the Order of Canada.
Program
Dr. Bhutta’s presentation will be followed by a discussion with Karin Tegmark Wisell Sweden’s ambassador for global health, Pernilla Baralt, Secretary General of UNICEF Sweden, Daniel Helldén, affiliated to research and Malachi Ochien Arunda, Postdoctoral researcher, both at the Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet.
The lecture will be moderated by Tobias Alfvén, Professor in Global Child Health and Anna Mia Ekström, Professor in Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet.
Note: The event might become fully booked. If that is the case and you would like to be put on a waiting list, please contact Emma Thorell (). Additionally, some parts of the lecture will be recorded.