Professor Flemming Konradsen from School of Global Health explain the basics about medical tourism referring to people traveling to a country other than their own to obtain medical treatment.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-health-introduction/lecture/9tezS/13-5-medical-tourism

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"New sound-recording technology could help researchers keep closer tabs on biodiversity—a rapidly dwindling measure of global health. Biodiversity is critical to maintaining the global ecosystems that provide our basic needs – air, water and soil able to grow food. Human activities such as overexploitation of resources, pollution, habitat alteration and climate change are causing biodiversity loss so extreme that many caution we are entering the sixth mass extinction. But it’s not too late. World leaders have united to promise to conserve biodiversity. Meaningful efforts, however, require cost-effective strategies. One of the most promising solutions to emerge in recent years is passive acoustic monitoring. Natural soundscapes provide rapid insight into the diversity of animals in a certain location, based on metrics known as acoustic biodiversity indices. These audio features are proven to predict the number of species in a given area..."

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There is a vast need for mental health support in populations affected by adversity globally. However, current evidence-based psychological interventions require significant resources and are highly challenging to bring to scale. This presentation will focus on an effort to address needs for mental health support through a WHO-developed guided self-help intervention. The presentation will discuss the adaptation and evaluation of the intervention with South Sudanese refugees in Uganda. Subsequently, the speaker will reflect on how this type of intervention may lend itself for integration in programming outside of the health sector to address the social determinants of mental health.

Nordic Global Health Talks is a monthly webinar series about global health research at Nordic universities, hosted by the Nordic Network on Global Health.

Professor and paediatrician Thorkild Tylleskär from the Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway discussing research needs in the field of maternal and child health, highlighting that in the era of Sudatainable Development Goals, there is still an unfinished agenda. Neonatal mortality is not decreasing as much child mortality and there is a need to focus on neonatal health and with that automatically also maternal health. The main message is that we need to focus on the time around birth: labour and the first week of life.

Nordic Global Health Talks is a monthly webinar series about global health research at Nordic universities, hosted by the Nordic Network on Global Health.

This talk begins with Meri Koivusalo’s overview of populism’s influence on public health activities, pandemic control and health promotion. She will discuss broader questions of populism and public health. Lynda Gilby will follow with a discussion on far-right populism, gender, and sexual and reproductive health and rights and work in more detail. Nationalism has been associated with resurgence in far-right populism, which emphasises “traditional family values and gender roles”. Lynda Gilby will focus on global governance, sharing findings from her research on how UN negotiations and high-level meetings, such as on UHC, have continued to be subject to efforts to replace references to SRHR with conservative language emphasising traditional, heteronormative family values and how these efforts have impacted on SRHR text in UN documents.