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Centre for Health Crises

The Centre for Health Crises mobilises and coordinates interdisciplinary expertise and know-how in health crises. Our vision is a society better prepared for future health crises. We want to build the next generation of health crisis experts through research, education, and collaboration. We work based on an all-hazards perspective, focusing on both health threats and vulnerabilities.

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Areas of expertise

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Areas of expertise

Our definition of a health crisis is a hazardous disruption that causes significant effects on human health and that risks exceeding the health system’s ability to cope with it. Based on this definition, we gather skills and knowledge in a number of areas of expertise. They cover a range of subjects that relate to both hazardous disruptions/health threats and health system vulnerabilities.

Workplan

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Workplan

Our work and activities are interdisciplinary and span across questions related to the prevention, preparedness, management, and evaluation of health crises. Our activities are guided by five strategic goals that focus on education, research, expert dissemination, and policy work, as well as our internal role at KI. Moreover, during the period 2024-2026, we have chosen to structure our work around a number of focus areas.

Education, networks and collaborations

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Education, networks and collaborations

At the Centre for Health Crises we develop and run a number of courses and exercises within the field of health crises. We are also the coordinating node for the Health Crisis Network at Swedish universities. The network collaborates on common questions and interests. It can also be activated when a health crisis occurs, to make expertise available. In addition, we collaborate with national and international organisations, among other things to second expertise to ongoing health crises.

Organisation

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Organisation

Our vision is a society better prepared for future health crises. Our mission is to build the next generation of health crisis experts, through research, education, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Our organisation is built around a group of core staff and a group of expert coordinators. We have a steering group with representatives from both KI and other universities. We report directly to the KI President.

News, events and updates from the Centre for Health Crises

Call for the Swedish government to condemn attacks on health care

The Director of the Centre for Health Crises, Professor Johan von Schreeb, has, along with the Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières Sweden and the President of the Swedish Society of Medicine, written an opinion piece calling on the Swedish government to clearly condemn all health attacks, to work to bring the perpetrators to justice and to take the lead internationally in stopping the attacks in every way possible. The opinion piece was published on 2 December in Göteborgsposten (in Swedish).