Open debate meeting 15.06.23 on NOU 5/23: Women’s health and sex differences in health (the Women’s Health Report)

Time: Thursday 15 June 2023, 13:00–15:00
Place: Auditorium, Bikuben, Haukeland University Hospital

The report highlights important measures that must be implemented to ensure that modern knowledge about sex differences in health and disease benefits patients. The report is currently under public consultation. In this context, the Center for Research on Heart Disease in Women at the University of Bergen (UiB) invites to a debate on how Haukeland University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine at UiB will address the key shortcomings identified regarding the lack of knowledge transfer to healthcare workers and health professions students.

Program:

Chairs: Eva Gerdts and Marit Sandberg

Professor Christine Meyer, NHH, Chair of the Women’s Health Committee:
The knowledge bridge – an essential part of “The Great Difference”

Deputy CEO Randi-Luise Møgster, Helse Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital:
How the hospital is working to establish systems that ensure a gender perspective in decision-making in the health and care sector (Measure 14)

Dean Per Bakke, Faculty of Medicine, UiB:
How to ensure that updated knowledge on sex differences in health and the importance of sex for health is incorporated into national guidelines for health and social care education (Measure 17). Why not take the lead locally?

Panel: Professor Tone M. Norekvål, Deputy Head of Department Else Cathrine Lütcherath Rustad (HVL), Rita Tveiten from the National Association for Public Health, André Høberg from the Norwegian Medical Students’ Association, among others.