Name: Health in Greenland – a global perspective
Start: 2024-06-28T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-28T16:45:00+02:00
Location: Øster Farimagsgade 5, Bd. 9, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark

$Health in Greenland \u2013 a global perspective$

The University of Copenhagen's Department of Public Health, Globe Institute, and the School of Global Health, are inviting you to an afternoon symposium where we will explore different aspects of health in Greenland and the Arctic.
The event is organised in connection with the appointment of Michael Lynge Pedersen as Affiliated Professor in Arctic Health at the Global Health Section, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.
About the symposium
Health in Greenland is challenged by the harsh arctic environment, long distances, and lack of locally anchored health personnel. Over the last decades, health delivery has been further challenged by markable disease and demographic transitions.
These changes have required adaptive and innovative approaches, involving indigenous understandings of natural resources, food systems and health. In a world facing huge challenges regarding planetary health, climate change and political uncertainty, the lessons learned from Greenland may offer relevant perspectives to the global conversation.
Programme
13.00-13.05
Welcome by Jane Brandt Sørensen, Assistant Professor, Global Health Section, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
13.05-13.15
Welcome by Theis Lange, Professor, Head of Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
13.15-14.00
15 years of Data Driven Diabetes Care in Greenland:
Inauguration lecture by Michael Lynge Pedersen, Professor, Steno Diabetes Center Greenland and University of Copenhagen
14.00-14.15
Coffee and cake
14.15-15.15
Presentations
1. Lessons from an unusual food system – what Arctic Indigenous foods can teach us:
- Aviâja Lyberth Hauptmann. Associate Professor, Head of SILA Department, Institute of Health and Nature, University of Greenland, Globe Institute - University of Copenhagen
2. Moving towards a strengths-based perspective in public health research in Greenland:
- Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen, Head of Research, Professor, Centre for Public Health in Greenland, SDU & Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland)
3. Health and Society in a Greenlandic Perspective:
- Gert Mulvad, MD, PhD hc. GCS Institut for Sundhed og Natur, Ilisimatusarfik, (University of Greenland)
15.15-16.00
Panel discussion with the presenters
16.00-16.45
Drinks and networking
Please register here before 25 June: https://globalhealth.ku.dk/events/2024/health-in-greenland--a-global-perspective/registration/
Click here for the Zoom webinar link: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/63827536834#success