Kiku Pukk Härenstam

Kiku Pukk Härenstam

Affiliated to Research | Docent
Visiting address: Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C7 Lärande, Informatik, Management och Etik, C7 MMC Savage, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • Kiku Pukk Härenstam is an Associate Professor of Medical management and Systems safety in Healthcare at the Karolinska Institute and senior consultant in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital. She is the medical director of the Pediatric Centre for Advanced Medical Simulation and Training at Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital. 

Research

  • My research focuses on patient safety, human factors and resilient healthcare in diverse contexts.

Teaching

  • Senior instructor Pediatric centre for Advanced Medical Simulation and Training, Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital

    Course director and examiner 2LK159 SVK Akutsjukvård -det akut sjuka barnet 2019- ongoing

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Grants

  • European Commission
    1 January 2024
    The overall objective of the APOLLO2028 project is to provide health and care workers, organisations, and healthcare system funders and policy makers with research-backed innovative solutions to help improve mental health, wellbeing, and capacity to be more resilient to changing environments (especially daily pressures and extreme events) at the workplace. The originality of the project is to consider resilience in health care in a holistic approach to build individual, team and organizational capabilities to face the next extreme events and daily pressures. Therefore, we will study individual factors affecting resilience, group factors, organizational factors, and develop a model involving all types of factors. This model will serve as a basis for the production of guidelines to be disseminated to health and care workers, their managers, as well as policy makers and health systems funders. We will also develop an AI-based system to support in the identification of stress factors and recommend actions. We will involve all the stakeholders in a co-design work to finalise our solutions. We will also review the cost effectiveness of our solutions. The main impact of our project will be a reduction of stress factors at the workplace, and an improvement of resilience of all the health and care workers. We will ensure our solutions are disseminated to all EU member states and adapted to the specifics of each of their health care systems.
  • Forte - the Swedish Research Council for health, Working Life and Welfare
    1 January 2019 - 31 December 2022
  • FK Hälsa - National initiative for delivery care and womens health - national, regional and local strategies for supporting and achieving change
    Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs - via Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions
    1 May 2017 - 31 December 2025
    Syftet med följeforskningen är att öka kunskapen om hur nationella och regionala strategier för stöd och implementering kan bidra vid nationella satsningar - samt att stödja lärandet under den pågående satsningen. Målet är att undersöka, beskriva och dra lärdomar av den implementeringsprocess och de stödstrategier för utveckling och lärande som används på nationell, regional och lokal nivå för att nå ut med satsningen, samt att förstå de valda strategiernas betydelse vid förändring, lärande och hållbarhet i insatser och förändringar efter satsningens slut

Employments

  • Affiliated to Research, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-2027
  • Affiliated to Research, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2026

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2020
  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Learning, informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2007
  • University Medical Degree, Karolinska Institutet, 2002

Supervision

  • Supervision to doctoral degree

    • Nikhil Gupta, Title: A Strategic Framework for Patient Safety: Leveraging Systems Thinking and Safety Intelligence, 2028

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