Fourteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

  • Health for Democracy, Democracy for Health
  • 3-4 October 2024
  • Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden + Online

Research Network Chairs

Louise Dalingwater

Louise Dalingwater

Professor, Sorbonne Université, Paris

(English)

Dr. Angelica Avendaño Veloso

Dr. Angelica Avendaño Veloso

Profesora Titular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Concepción, Chile; Ex-Presidenta, Red Iberoamericana de Salud Digital

(Spanish)

Local Conference Chairs

Slobodan Zdravkovic

Slobodan Zdravkovic

Associate Professor, Department of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, Sweden

Slobodan Zdravkovic is an associate professor at the Department of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University as well as a researcher at MIM, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare. Zdravkovic is conducting research within the field of migration and health as well as within diabetes research mainly applying quantitative research methods.

Elisabeth Mangrio

Elisabeth Mangrio

Associate Professor, Care Science, Malmö University, Sweden

Elisabeth Mangrio is an associate professor at Care Science, Malmö University as well as a researcher at MIM, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare. She is currently conducting both qualitative and quantitative research regarding newly arrived migrants and their health situation after arrival in Sweden. This research covers aspects of how well Sweden manages to integrate migrants and to what extent they have access to employment after the establishment process in Sweden. She is currently also a research leader for Grow Safely, an extended home-visit program within the child health care in Scania.

Michael Strange

Michael Strange

Associate Professor, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden

Michael Strange is Reader (Docent) in International Relations, at the Department of Global Political Studies. He has worked previously at both the Universities of Roskilde and Essex. He studied within the Department of Government at the University of Essex, achieving a Masters with Distinction in International Relations, and a PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis.

2024 Plenary Speakers

The Fourteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.

Margareta Rämgård

Margareta Rämgård

Associate Professor, Care Science and Health Geography at Malmö University, Sweden

"Equal health through CBPR"

Angélica Avendaño Veloso

Angélica Avendaño Veloso

Profesora Titular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Concepción, Chile; Vicepresidenta, Red Iberoamericana de Salud Digital; Presidenta, Red Iberoamericana de Salud Digital RISAD (ES), Directora del Centro Regional de Telemedicina y Telesalud del Biobío, Chile

"El CRT en su globalidad"

(In Spanish)

Persia Tajik

Persia Tajik

Administrator, project leader, Helamalmö, Sweden

"Helamalmös Work"

Bengt B. Arnetz

Bengt B. Arnetz

Professor, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

"Community Strategies to Address Early Childhood Brain Stress from a Lifespan Socioecological Perspective"

Emerging Scholar Awardees

For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2024 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:

Christina Jäderholm

Christina Jäderholm

Oregon Health & Science University, USA

(In-Person)

Jennifer Carson-González

Jennifer Carson-González

Carle Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

(In-Person)

Rathi Ramji

Rathi Ramji

Malmö University, Sweden

(In-Person)

​Jess Haynie-Lavelle

​Jess Haynie-Lavelle

Malmö University, Sweden

(In-Person)

Natalie Stake Doucet

Natalie Stake Doucet

The Université de Montréal, Canada

(In-Person)

Polina Palash

Polina Palash

UCLouvain, Belgium

(In-Person)

Lindsay Luinstra

Lindsay Luinstra

Wichita State University, USA

(Online Only)

Xuemei Zhang

Xuemei Zhang

University of Melbourne, Australia

(Online Only)

Vartika Singh

Vartika Singh

University of Delhi, India

(Online Only)

Rebecca Macy

Rebecca Macy

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, USA

(Online Only)

Aarash Baktash

Aarash Baktash

Rosen College of Hospitality Management, USA

(Online Only)

Sasha Ball

Sasha Ball

University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

(Online Only)

Nyameka Spambo

Nyameka Spambo

University of Waterloo, Canada

(Online Only)

Umme Habiba Jasmine

Umme Habiba Jasmine

Hongfei Li

Hongfei Li

Conference Partner