SIHI Sweden Conference 2024
On the 6-7th of November the SIHI Sweden conference: Exploring Entrepreneurship in Social Innovation for Health was held in Uppsala, Sweden. Together with participants from all over the world, we explored the entrepreneurial aspect of social innovation in health.
The conference was organized by SIHI Sweden which is hosted by the Centre for Health and Sustainability, Uppsala University in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet and the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University. SIHI Sweden is a hub in the global network Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI).
Below you can find presentations and material from the conference.
Thank you to all keynote speakers, social innovators, and all participants for contributing with your knowledge and experience on social innovation for health!
/SIHI Sweden Steering group

Conference Book
In our conference book you can find information about the conference, a detailed program and all abstracts of posters presented during the poster walk.
Presentations
November 6
KEYNOTE |
SOCIAL INNOVATION PRESENTATION Deputy Project manager, PLATINEA – Platform for Innovation of Existing Antibiotics |
SOCIAL INNOVATION PRESENTATION Gloria-Karin López, Forum for Social Innovation Sweden Malin Lindberg, Guest Professor of Social Innovation, Malmö University Andreas Hellström, Senior Lecturer at Chalmers University of Technology and Vice President of Kraftens Hus Charlotte Forsberg, Director of Kraftens Hus Stockholm Päivi Juuso, Associate Professor in Nursing, Luleå University of Technology |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
WORKSHOP Access the designathon handbook here Pdf, 28 MB.. |
November 7
KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
SOCIAL INNOVATION PRESENTATION |
ORAL POSTER PRESENTATIONS Trash 4 Health Innovation (Recorded presentation)
Gillian Vedan, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
SOCIAL INNOVATION PRESENTATION How can social entrepreneurship be used as a method for system change? Pdf, 10 MB. Andréa Råsberg, Reach for Change |
WORKSHOP How can we make social innovation happen? Inspiration from Forum for Social Innovation Sweden Facilitators: Gloria-Karin López, Forum for Social Innovation Sweden Malin Lindberg, Guest Professor of Social Innovation, Malmö University Andreas Hellström, Senior Lecturer at Chalmers University of Technology and Vice President of Kraftens Hus Charlotte Forsberg, Director of Kraftens Hus Stockholm Päivi Juuso, Associate Professor in Nursing, Luleå University of Technology
WORKSHOP Facilitator: Ulrika Persson-Fischier, Swedesd, Uppsala University. |
Designathon
At the conference we hosted a youth mental health mini-designathon. A designathon is a three-step participatory process that includes preparation with end-users (in this case the youth), intensive collaboration, and some follow-up activities. The purpose of this designathon was to develop ideas on how to improve mental health for youth in Uppsala.
A big thank you to all who took part in our designathon for youth mental health. A special thank you to the youth who came and contributed with very valuable thoughts and perspectives on how it is to be young today and what ideas actually works. We are impressed with all the ideas that came up in this two-hour workshop!
The finalist team was the "The buddy bus!" The buddy bus hosts a ‘trained listener’ and fika - it’s a place for young people in Uppsala to vent about anything! The judges found this idea to be feasible, versatile, and potentially interesting to local stakeholders. Congratulations to team Buddy Bus!



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