A concise poster overview of our Open Access book, which presents a narrative framework for comprehending and tackling mistrust during health emergencies.

Many medical schools have started to include the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their curricula. Doctors graduate knowing they shouldn’t prescribe inhalers containing greenhouse gas propellants. But they are ignorant of wider aspects of sustainability, including partnership-building, decolonization, and just transformation. The standard approach to teaching the SDGs

Earlier this week, the SUSTAINIT Strategy Seminar convened a diverse assembly of researchers and educators, fostering collaboration and stimulating conversation around shared interests and values. The seminar’s goal was to encourage knowledge exchange among the three centers, while also identifying potential synergies across various projects. Participants enjoyed a series of

This week’s SDG Conference Bergen 2023 was a major event, bringing together over 1500 participants from 117 countries through online participation. I was privileged to serve as co-chair of the conference program committee along with my esteemed colleague, Professor Beate Sjåfjell, head of the Sustainability Law team at the University

The Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT) is a knowledge hub located at the Faculty of Medicine (UiO), established by the Faculty Board on December 13, 2022, with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary approaches to sustainable health research and education.   In this blog post, I outline our objectives and the benefits

SUSTAINIT will empower sustainable action through education and research This week we launched the new Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo (UiO), with a start-up seminar for all employees.   As the head of SUSTAINIT, I feel incredibly proud and privileged to launch this

In our book Mona Baker and I propose a three-step approach to combat disinformation through storytelling. In a recent Lancet report, Sachs et al list nine global failures which contributed to an unsuccessful pandemic response, including “failure to combat systematic disinformation”. In our book, Rethinking Evidence in the Time of

I am thrilled that our project “The Medicalisation of Democratic Rights in the Debate about Abortion (MEDRA): The US, Ireland and Argentina” has been selected for funding by UiO:Democracy – a new interdisciplinary initiative at the University of Oslo. MEDRA explores how medical knowledge is mobilised by various constituencies and

On behalf of my colleague Elin Olaug Rosvold and myself, I am delighted to introduce the first of our two fantastic honorary doctors, professor Trisha Greenhalgh.  Professor Greenhalgh is a world-leading scholar in primary health care, evidence-based medicine, and social medicine. This was true when we first nominated her back