Nordic Public Health Conference
The detailed programme will be published in due course, below you can see the programme overview.
Tuesday
13 May
- 12.30–13.30: Registration and coffee
- 13.30–14.00: NPHC2025 opening session
- 14.00–15.30 Conference programme
- 15.30–16.00 Swedish fika
- 16.00–17.30 Conference programme
- 19.30 Welcome reception and mingle dinner
Wednesday
14 May
- Morning activity by choice
- 09.00–10.00 Parallel sessions
- 10.00–10.30 Swedish Fika
- 10.30–11.30 Parallel sessions
- 11.30–13.30 Lunch and time for visiting the abstract exhibition
- 13.30–14.30 Parallel sessions
- 14.30–15.00 Swedish Fika
- 15.00–16.00 Parallel sessions
- 16.00–16.30 Swedish Fika
- 16.30–17.30 Parallel sessions
- 19.00 Banquet
Thursday
15 May
- Morning activity by choice
- 09.00–10.30 Conference programme
- 10.30–11.00 Swedish fika
- 11.00–12.30 Conference programme and NPHC2025 closure
- 12.30–14.00 Lunch and time for visiting the abstract exhibition
Moderator
Kattis Ahlström
Bio
Kattis Ahlström is one of Sweden’s leading TV personalities and a highly experienced and sought-after moderator. With her calm and engaging presence, she has skillfully led discussions and debates at the highest level, always focused on creating an inclusive and engaging dialogue.
As a television host, Kattis has been the face of many of Sweden’s most prominent TV shows. She was awarded the Kristallen prize for Best Female Host. Her extensive experience in leading both small and large events makes her an obvious choice as a moderator for everything from business conferences to major galas.
Kattis has also been heard on popular radio programs as well as in podcasts. With her wide-ranging knowledge, warm humor, and genuine commitment, Kattis is a moderating talent who always creates a positive and inspiring atmosphere.
Her ability to connect diverse perspectives and make people feel heard makes her the top choice for moderating discussions, debates, and conferences at both national and international levels.
Host
Olivia Wigzell
Director General for the Public Health agency of Sweden
Bio
We are thrilled to announceMaria Neira as one of our invited speakers! As Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at theWorld Health Organization, Dr. Neira brings unique expertise in global health.
Her impressive career includes roles as Spain’s Under-Secretary of Health and President of the Food Safety Agency, as well as fieldwork with Médecins Sans Frontières in conflict zones across Africa.
A medical doctor specialized in endocrinology, with a Master’s in Public Health, Dr. Neira has been recognized globally, including being named one of the top 100 policy influencers in health and climate change. Don’t miss her inspiring insights at NPHC 2025!
Invited Speakers
Micael Dahlén
Professor at Stockholm School of Economics
Bio
How can we make the economic value of health-promoting work visible and use health economic analyses for prioritization within the welfare sector? How can we make connections to well-being and happiness? What are the largest challenges and opportunities?
Jakob Forssmed
Swedens´s Minister of social affairs
Bio
We are thrilled to announceMaria Neira as one of our invited speakers! As Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at theWorld Health Organization, Dr. Neira brings unique expertise in global health.
Her impressive career includes roles as Spain’s Under-Secretary of Health and President of the Food Safety Agency, as well as fieldwork with Médecins Sans Frontières in conflict zones across Africa.
A medical doctor specialized in endocrinology, with a Master’s in Public Health, Dr. Neira has been recognized globally, including being named one of the top 100 policy influencers in health and climate change. Don’t miss her inspiring insights at NPHC 2025!
Naja Hulvej Rod
Copenhagen Health Complexity Center
Bio
Naja Hulvej Rod is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center at the University of Copenhagen. The Copenhagen Health Complexity Center is a multi-disciplinary research hub dedicated to developing a systematic scientific approach for understanding and addressing complex public health problems.
Her expertise spans various domains including sleep, health inequality, young adult health, and early life adversity, with a focus on health complexity, causal inference, and life course mechanisms. She has a particular interest in complex systems theory and how it intersects with methodological insights from causal inference theory. She has extensive expertise in working with longitudinal datasets and register-based research.
Naja Hulvej Rod is PI of the Danish Life Course Cohort (DANLIFE) Study, which leverage multi-dimensional exposome data covering the totality of measured lifetime exposures across multiple social, environmental, and biological dimensions in 2 million people.
She has participated in numerous boards and committees across Europe, and she has been awarded several prestigious grants and awards including the Sapere Aude starting grant, the Elite Researcher Prize 2022, and an ERC consolidator grant.
Knut Inge Klepp
Folkehelseinstituttet
Bio
Klepp is the Scientific Coordinator of “JA PreventNCD” at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and Professor, Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. He was previously Executive Director for Division of Mental and Physical Health, NIPH and before that Director General of Public Health at the Norwegian Directorate of Health.
He has served as Coordinator and WP-leader of several EU DG Research projects, and he is Past President of the International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity.
Klepp has published more than 300 scientific journal articles, primarily related to adolescent health promotion, NCD prevention and evaluation of public health measures.
Dr Maria Neira
World Health Organization (WHO)
Bio
Dr Maria P. Neira is the Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization. Prior to that she served as Under-Secretary of Health and President of the Spanish Food Safety Agency.
Dr Neira began her career as a medical coordinator working for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). She then spent several years working in different African countries during armed conflicts.
Dr Neira is a Medical Doctor by training, specialized in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases in Paris, France, Master of Public Health and a University Diploma in Human Nutrition, Epidemic Preparedness and Crisis Management.
Among many distinctions, she has been awarded the Médaille de “L’Ordre National du Mérite” by the Government of France and received an “Extraordinary Woman” award by HM Queen Letizia of Spain. In early 2019, she was nominated among the top 100 policy influencers in health and climate change.
Timo Ståhl
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Bio
Chief Specialist Timo Ståhl is an expert in health promotion, particularly in “Health in All Policies” type of work. With 25 years of experience, he has worked on health promotion research, development, and implementation at local, national, EU, and global levels.
His research has focused on evaluating organizational capacity for health promotion. Based on this work he led the creation of the “health promotion coefficient,” by which €100 million is allocated as state subsidies to support them. A similar mechanism is developed for wellbeing services counties responsible for organizing health and social services.
Recently, in 2018, he launched the PUHTI project, which gathers real-world data (RWD) from private companies and NGOs for municipal and wellbeing services counties planning. This data includes grocery sales, payment defaults, sports licenses, and social media data, including illegal drugs sales, compiled into a digital dashboard for decision-making support. Five biggest municipalities, including city of Helsinki and three wellbeing services counties participate the project.
Timo Ståhl has published over 150 scientific papers, non-reviewed research papers, development reports, and books.
Margaret Whitehead
Professor Dame
Bio
Professor Dame Margaret Whitehead held the W.H. Duncan Chair of Public Health at the University of Liverpool, UK, from 1999 to 2023, where she was also founding Head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Policy Research on the Determinants of Health Equity.
Her passionate interest over the past thirty years or more has been social inequalities in health and in healthcare. Her work with WHO has helped provide guidance for countries across Europe on making population health policies and strategies more equitable. In 2016, she was knighted for her contribution to public health in the Queen’s New Year Honours List (becoming a Dame).
Throughout her academic career, Margaret has enjoyed many fruitful collaborations with Nordic researchers. She has worked with Professor Göran Dahlgren and colleagues since 1990 on WHO and Rockefeller Foundation programmes. She was awarded her PhD in 1997 from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm under the supervision of Professor Finn Diderichsen, and has collaborated with him and many colleagues including Professor Bo Burström, KI, ever since.
As well as contributing to various UK and international efforts to address social inequalities in health, she chaired the Independent Inquiry into Health Equity for the North of England (the Due North Report). She was Chair of the Independent Review of Equity in Medical Devices, set up by the UK Secretary of State for Health, to investigate ethnic and other unfair biases in medical devices used in the NHS and to make recommendations for improvements, the report of which was published in March 2024.
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Bio
Information coming soon!