A KICGH Interdisciplinary event:
"Karolinska Institutet Collaboration with India"
Date & time: May 27th, 13.00-16.00
Venue: Karolina, level 2, Tomtebodavägen 18A
(Widerströmska huset)
Program
13.00 Welcome by Karolinska Institutet (KI) India coordinator Professor Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
“Diabetes in rural India”
Carina Ursing, MD, PhD Department of Clinical Science and Education, KI SÖS, Senior Consultant, Södersjukhuset
”Alcohol - a public health disaster emerging in south India?”
Sven Andreasson, Professor, KI, Senior consultant, Stockholm Centre for Dependency Disorders
”Raising hospital births to reduce maternal mortality: India’s Janani Suraksha and Chiranjeevi programs.”
Ayesha De Costa, Assoc. Prof, Department of Public Health Sciences, KI
”Sport promoting healthy behaviour - a study done with adolescents engaged in organised physical activity in
comparison with those not engaged in PA programs and differences in health food intake, alcohol, tobacco and
inhalant use”
Hemal Shroff, Assist. Prof, Centre for Health and Social Sciences, School of Health systems Studies, Tata Institute
of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
14.00 - 14.15 Short break
”The impact of respiratory viruses on community-acquired pneumonia in Indian children”
Anna Nilsson, Assoc, Prof, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, KI, Senior Consultant, Astrid Lindgrens
Children’s Hospital
“Tuberculosis in India”
Shreemanta K Parida, MD, PhD. Therapeutic Immunology Division, Department of Laboratory medicine, KI
”High Cost Burden and Health Consequences of Antibiotic Resistance - The Price to Pay”
Sujith Chandy, Professor, affiliation in India (CMC, Vellore), Department of Public Health Sciences, KI
16.00 Poster exhibition, group discussion (1. Maternal and child health 2. Infections including resistance 3. NCDs
including mental illness) and “fika”
16.45 Concluding reports from the group discussions and remarks by India coordinator Professor Cecilia Stålsby
Lundborg
Poster exhibition
1. Maternal and child health:
”The feasibility of using a low-sensitivity pregnancy test for self-assessment after medical abortion in a low-resource
setting in India”
Mandira Paul, PhD, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, International maternal and child health
Uppsala University
2. Infections including resistance
“Self-reported practice, knowledge and attitudes among health care workers at a teaching hospital in central India”
Senia Rosales Klintz, Postdoc, Department of Public Health Sciences, KI
"Incidence and associated risk factors of ICU-acquired device-associated infections in a teaching hospital in Ujjain,
India"
Nadia Arshad MPH, MPhil, MSc, research assistant at Department of Public Health Sciences, KI
Erika Saliba, MSc, research assistant at Department of Public Health Sciences, KI
"Esherichia coli contamination and antibiotic resistance in community drinking water source- A study from tribal
area of Maharashtra, India"
Sandeep Nerker, PhD, Department of Public Health Sciences, KI
3. NCDs including mental illness
“Bodily knowledge a Global resource”
Kristina Kindblom, PhD, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Physiotherapy