Sustainable Health and the 2030 Agenda

Third-cycle level | 2.0 credits (HEC) | Course code: K9F6005
HT 2025
Study period: 2025-12-01 - 2025-12-10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: The course is given in English
Application period: 2025-04-15 - 2025-05-06
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Course description

Have you been pondering over how your research relate to sustainable development?

Perhaps you have even heard that all students who graduate from KI should be exposed to issues that relate to sustainable development and the UN 2030 Agenda during their education? 

Have you wondered how to achieve this in practice? 

Then, this is the course for you!

The course is given by the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health (CESH) and gives you an orientation on health within the framework of sustainable development - sustainable health. It also supports you to gain knowledge and tools to analyze how this relates to your research.

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda are all interlinked and SDG 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing) is woven into this matrix. In order to reach the SDGs we must use systems thinking and multisectoral collaboration. The course will give a thorough knowledge about the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. It will support you to explore how the SDGs relate to each other with a focus on SDG 3 and to understand how systems thinking can be used to find solutions to the wicked and interlinked problems of sustainable health and development. Lectures, literature and group work will evolve around sustainability challenges such as climate change, extreme poverty, inequality within and in between countries and the students will reflect in depth on how these can be prevented and responded to. Through the coursework you will acquire knowledge, skills and tools to analyze and describe how the major sustainability challenges relate to your own research and why this is important.

https://ki.se/en/collaboration/centre-of-excellence-for-sustainable-health

Prerequisites and Selection

Prerequisite courses, or equivalent

Knowledge and/or skills on sustainable development, equivalent to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) -module of the Compulsory Introduction for Doctoral Students.

Selection

Selection will be based on:  
1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s individual study plan/research (according to written motivation). 
2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date). 

 

Course director

Nina Viberg

Link to website

https://cesh.health

Course syllabus

K9F6005

Department

Department of Global Public Health

Doctoral programme

Health Care Science (Puf-V)

Type of course

**Other course

Keywords

Sustainable development, sustainable health, 2030 Agenda, systems thinking multisectoral collaboration, poverty, inequity, hållbar utveckling, hållbar hälsa, Agenda 2030, systemtänkande, multisektoriellt samarbete, fattigdom, jämlikhet, Sustainable development, sustainable health, 2030 Agenda, Sustainable development goals, SDG, poverty, inequity, environment, Hållbar utveckling, Hållbar hälsa, Agenda 2030, globala målen, fattigdom, ojämlikhet, systems thinking, multisectoral collaboration, systemtänkande, multisektoriell samverkan

CONTACTNina Viberg

nina.viberg@ki.se