SWEDESD

A new narrative for global health is needed that both discards its colonial heritage and aligns with the current state and challenges of the world. We propose a mission statement for global health that endeavors to reduce inequities and the best attainable health for all while simultaneously reducing humankind’s ecological footprint to a sustainable level. This requires focusing on transformative processes and solutions that transcend current practice, integrating multiple perspectives and disciplines. 

Read more in this editorial in BMJ GLobal Health!

Listen to SWEDESD director Mats Målqvist who elaborates on the new suggested mission statement for global health at a ENLIGHT Lecture. 

We are happy to announce that our global leadership programme – Leadership for Transformative Change – has now been lauched! 

At the website https://ltc.uu.se, you can read more about the programme, which is open to participants from all sectors of society in low-, middle- and high-income countries. It is aimed at people in a leadership position with ambitions to work with sustainable development within their organizations and countries. The suitability of the course participants will, among other things, be evaluated based on their capacity to be actionable change agents in their contexts. The programme is aimed for actors from the public, private, multilateral and civil society sectors. Participants can come from academia, but the program does not focus on academics.