A couple of days ago, but published this morning, I wrote a blog post with a link to a text about Hong Kong that I published in August. The last day, the situation in Hong Kong has deteriorated and is now becoming worse by the minute. The violence has literally moved into the university campus […]
English version below Situationen i Hongkong är fortsatt spänd och nyhetsrapporteringen berättar om eskalerande motsättningar mellan polis och demonstranter. Eftersom Karolinska Institutet, genom Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine (MWLC) bedriver verksamhet där sedan tre år, är jag naturligtvis mycket engagerad i händelseutvecklingen. Som jag tidigare skrivit här på bloggen så bevakar vi vad […]
Jag tillsammans med Eva Wiberg, rektor Göteborgs universitet, Stefan Bengtsson, rektor Chalmers tekniska högskola, Peter Friberg, föreståndare för SIGHT (Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation) vid Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien och professor Sahlgrenska Akademin, Göteborgs universitet samt Carl Johan Sundberg, professor/prefekt här på KI, skriver på GP debatt om att universitet och högskolor har ett stort ansvar […]
Summary in Swedish below On August 16 we will commemorate Hans Rosling by arranging a seminar and debate in the Jacob Berzelius auditorium at the Karolinska Institutet. You are invited to join in a discussion addressing one of the most salient questions of the day: Is the world’s health improving? You can find the program […]
Svensk version nedan Today – August 2 2019 – I received an ominous piece of information from Austria indicating that the execution of Ahmadreza Djalali is impending. According to TT/Aftonbladet the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs has promised to get in touch with Iranian authorities without undue delay. I trust they will deliver on their […]
I have previously discussed open access and Plan S in my blog, and in our Lancet commission on Global Governance for Health we argue that knowledge must be available to all. While I strongly support the idea and legitimacy of open access there is a need to be attentive to the demands and academic freedom […]
I dag, den 3 maj, är av FN proklamerat som “Världsdagen för pressfrihet” och det är en fråga som – tyvärr – blir alltmer aktuell i takt med att det fria ordet blivit mindre fritt runt om i världen. Också i vår närhet, i Europa, finns det tydliga indikationer på att pressfriheten kringskärs och att journalister utsätts […]
Swedish version below Three years ago – on April 26, 2016 – KI alumnus and researcher Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested in Iran, accused of espionage and “enmity with God”. About a year later, October 21, 2017, he was sentenced to death in a trial that will go into the history as a legal scandal. He […]