DETAILED PROGRAMME

Tuesday, 13 May

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12.30 – 13.30

Arrival and registration

13.30 – 15.15

Programme

Introductory music
with saxophonist Martin Lidström.
Introduction
Kattis Ahlström, moderator and Olivia Wigzell, Director General of The Public Health Agency of Sweden, welcomes all participants.
Welcome to Gothenburg
Introduction to Gothenburg by the region’s representatives
Lisbeth Sundén Andersson, Deputy Chairman of the Municipal Council and Renée Bengtsson, Chairman of the Regional Council

Opening speech
Jakob Forssmed Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health, the Swedish Government

Invited speaker
Maria Neira, Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO
More information on Marias speech will come.

Invited speaker
Taru Koivisto, Director the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
More information on Tarus speech will come.

15.15 – 16.00

Pause

(Including mingling and a chance to explore the poster exhibitions.)

16.00 – 17.45

Programme

Invited speaker
Naja Hulvej Rod, Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Copenhagen Health Complexity Center

Public Health in a Complex World
How can we improve our ability to understand and act on complex health challenges? This talk presents a new, systematic scientific approach. It argues that instead of isolating single risk factors, we need to understand complex health problems in context by understanding their patterns, their interconnected mechanisms, and how they change over time.

Invited speaker
Kira Fortune, Regional Advisor Healthy Cities,
Health Promotion and Wellbeing, WHO,

Healthy Cities, Healthy Futures: Driving Equity Through Local Action
The presentation will offer a comprehensive overview of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network, its key functions, and its critical role in promoting health equity and wellbeing. It will spotlight the transformative power of the Network in building fairer, healthier societies, starting from the ground up. Rooted in the principles of health equity, the network connects local realities to global action, showing how the everyday choices of cities can shape a more fairer and healthier world. It will highlight the importance of the Healthy Cities approach as a whole-of-society approach, uniting communities, policymakers, leaders and diverse sectors to tackle the drivers of inequality and ensure no one is left behind. The presentation will showcase the impact of this approach across European cities, with a particular emphasis on Nordic cities, which have pioneered innovative policies and practices to address urban health challenges. These examples will illustrate how cities can leverage collaboration, policy integration, and community engagement to advance health and wellbeing for all.

Invited speaker
Dora Gudmundsdottir, Director of Public Health at the Directorate of Health in Iceland,

Wellbeing economy – a tool to enhance public health
In this talk, Dr. Dora will discuss how wellbeing economy can be seen as a tool to enhance public health with special focus on creating sustainable wellbeing for both people and the planet. Today we are facing big challenges like global warming and burn-out among people along with decline in happiness and wellbeing and increase in loneliness. Dora will argue that in order to change this development we need to do things differently and one way forward is make sustainable wellbeing for people and the planet as our final goal through wellbeing economy.

Mingle Dinner

19.30