Centre for Health and Sustainability

Sign up for this year’s SIHI Sweden conference: Advancing Equity in Social Innovation in Health.

We welcome you to two days in Uppsala, where we dive into the topic of equity in relation to social innovation in health. During the various interactive sessions, we raise reflexive questions such as how do we ensure that social innovations in health are designed and implemented in ways that are inclusive and equitable? And how can we effectively evaluate the impact of these social innovations?

This academic conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and community leaders from across disciplines to critically examine how social innovations can both challenge and reinforce health inequities, as well as to actively co-create a research agenda that places equity at the core of innovation.

🗓️ When? December 8-9
📍 Where? Uppsala, Sweden
▪️ For who? Researchers, policy makers and practitioners interested in social innovations for health and equity-related questions.

Read more about the conference and how to sign up here 👉 https://www.uu.se/en/centre/health-and-sustainability/collaboration/sihi-sweden/sihi-sweden-conference-2025

On Thursday, Kalkidan nailed her thesis and treated us all ”spikafika”! Looking forward to the defense on the 27th of March.

💚 Are you interested in youth mental health?

💚 SIHI Sweden is organizing a designathon at the SIHI Sweden Conference, 6-7 November in Uppsala. Together with youth based in Uppsala you will explore creative and innovative ideas on how to improve youth mental health.

💚 A designathon is a participatory process with end-users to create new interventions for change.

Take the opportunity to innovate with inspiring people from all over the world ➡️ Register now https://lnkd.in/dVxNiSvp

Read more about the designathon and conference here: https://lnkd.in/dS4zZxM8

🚀 How can social entrepreneurship be used as a method for system change? What are the success factors and pitfalls when running a social enterprise?

Listen to Andréa Råsberg at the SIHI Sweden Conference, 6-7 November in Uppsala! She will give us insight in how Reach for Change works to support local social entrepreneurs to develop innovative and scalable solutions that improve the lives of children and youth. She will specifically focus on Next in Mind, an initiative to empower and invest in nordic mental health solutions for emerging adults.

🖊️ Sounds interesting - register now! ➡️ https://registration.invajo.com/2b1afb64-adde-42a3-910f-c07e5fcd3287?page=725d2c73-97ee-4cf1-bb54-d2b60d2ba811

Andréa Råsberg is Country Manager at Sweden at Reach for Change, an global non-profit founded in Sweden 2010 unleashing the power of local social entrepreneurs to create a world where all children and youth reach their full potential. She is passionate about system change, and believes in including those living close to the challenges in achieving that. She has over 15 years of experience working primarily with social innovation and entrepreneurship, but also to design and lead processes for societal change and system innovation.

🔗 Curious to know more about the conference - find the full program on our webpage https://www.uu.se/en/centre/swedesd/collaboration/sihi-sweden/sihi-sweden-conference-2024

Proud to announce that PhD student Kalkidan Yohannes, apart from holding an excellent presentation of her study on the policy situation regarding homelessness in Ethiopia, received the Womher Environment Award at the International Graduate Conference! Well deserved!

How can we make social innovation happen? What organizational forms, financial resources and engagement are needed to make innovative ideas transform into practical solutions?

Researchers from the academic network of Forum for Social Innovation Sweden (Mötesplats Social Innovation) will present their experiences of developing new knowledge-based solutions for societal challenges in mental and physical health at the SIHI Sweden Conference, November 6-7, in Uppsala.

With them they have two examples: Kraftens hus Sverige (House of Power) - that works with and for cancer-affected, and examples of Nature-based interventions to promote mental health.

Secure your spot now! Register here ➡️ https://registration.invajo.com/2b1afb64-adde-42a3-910f-c07e5fcd3287?page=725d2c73-97ee-4cf1-bb54-d2b60d2ba811



Malmö universitet, Chalmers University of Technology, LTH, Lunds Tekniska Högskola

🌳Do you want to know more about our closest neighbors – urban trees – and what services they provide for us?

🌳Apply for the second edition of an interdisciplinary ENLIGHT 5ECTS course “Adapting to Climate Change: Ecosystem Services of Urban Green Zones” by 15 November!

🌳The course is based at Swedesd and coordinated by Alexandra Khalaim.