GlobeLife Student Section
What is the student section?
Here you can find information from KI and UU for students interested in global health. You can find information from current students as well as career paths of previous students, internships and upcoming events.
Student Section Seminars
The GlobeLife Student Section also organises online seminars. Here you can watch the recordings of the seminars.
GlobeLife student representatives
GlobeLife student representatives from KI and UU. Please contact us for any enquires or if you have any contributions.
Current GlobeLife representatives from Karolinska Institutet
Romana Höltschl is a MSc student in Health Economics, Policy and Management at Karolinska Institutet. She has a Bachelor's degree in European Public Health from Maastricht University and previous experience in public policy and consulting. Currently, she is interested in the causes of health inequities and global health diplomacy.
Email address: romana.holtschl@stud.ki.se
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romana-höltschl/
Nguyen Thi Hoang Ha is a MSc student in Public Health Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet. She has a Bachelor's degree in Preventive Medicine from Hanoi Medical University in Hanoi, Vietnam. She is interested in antimicrobial resistance, infectious diseases, and One Health-related issue.
Email address: ha.nguyen.thi.hoang@stud.ki.se
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nthh818/
Advisor to the current representatives.
Hager Saleh is a MSc student in Health Informatics at Karolinska Institutet. Before starting her studies at Karolinska Institute Hager was a lecturer of Health management at Umm Al-Qura university, Saudi Arabia. Prior to that she was a hospital pharmacist at Alexandria Fever Hospital, Egypt. She has a B.Sc. of pharmaceutical sciences, Alexandria university, Egypt, and MSc in pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology, Bordeaux university, France.
Email address: hager.saleh@stud.ki.se
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hagersaleh/
Current Globelife representatives from Uppsala University
Lamessa K. Jalata is an MSc student in Global Health at Uppsala University. He has a bachelor’s degree in Medicine from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. His most significant achievement thus far is what he was able to accomplish for the community with Waliif Health Care S.C working as board of directors. Furthermore, he has previous experience as clinical governance and quality improvement officer in Ethiopia. Prior to that, he worked as a Medical director at Amaya primary hospital, Ethiopia. He has been a member and executive committee of the Oromia physician association and he is very interested in Non communicable disease and Migration health.
Email address: lamessa-kumera.jalata.6802@student.uu.se
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jalata-lamessa
Alina Rachiteanu is an MSc student in Global Health at Uppsala University. Before starting her studies in Uppsala, she got a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences from St George’s, University of London. Her current interests include migration health and the link between the environment and health.
Email address: alina.rachiteanu@gmail.com
Previous GlobeLife representatives from Karolinska Institutet
Margarita Chatzopoulou is a second year MSc student in Biomedicine at Karolinska Institutet. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Cardiff University, UK. and has previously worked in the field of Medical Microbiology and Diagnostics of infectious diseases. Currently, she is interested in the Human Microbiome and its role in health and disease.
Email address: margarita.chatzopoulou@stud.ki.se
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margarita-chatzopoulou-123138195/
Leo Gkekos is a MSc student in Public Health Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet. He entered the field of public health by studying the MSc in Governance and Leadership in European Public Health, offered by Maastricht University. He has, since then, been a member of the Young Professionals division at ASPHER and has run the This Is Public Health (TIPH) campaign in the Netherlands
Email address: leo.gkekos@stud.ki.se
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/leogkekos
Previous Globelife representatives from Uppsala University
Fabian Augusto Maza Arnedo is a MSc student in Global Health at Uppsala University. He has a bachelor’s degree in Medicine from the University of Antioquia, Colombia. He has previous experience in the field of maternal health as a Young Researcher of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation and as a member of the Intensive Care and Obstetric Research Group (GRICIO) in Colombia. Prior to that, he worked as a teacher assistant at Rafael Nuñez University Corporation and as General Practitioner in the Emergency Room and the Intensive Care Unit.
Email address: fabianaugusto.mazaarnedo.6970@student.uu.se
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-maza
Hanna Lea Knecht is studying the Master's program Global Health at Uppsala University in her second year. Before coming to Sweden, she did her Bachelor studies in speech therapy in Hamburg, Germany. Right now she is very interested in neurodegenerative diseases, mental health and the antibiotic resistance.
Email address: hanna.knecht.2196@student.uu.se
Adama Awasom-Fru is a MSc student in Global Health at Uppsala University. She obtained her MBCHb at the University of Gambia and worked as a General Practioner in Cameroon and the Gambia before pursuing further studies. Adama is passionate about issues related to sexual and reproductive health rights
Email address: Adama.Awasom-Fru.3995@student.uu.se
Lina Wallberg is a MSc student in Global Health at Uppsala University. She has a bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Health Promotion from University of Wollongong, Australia and has previously worked in the field of public health focusing on preventative healthcare.
Email address Lina.wallberg1798@student.uu.se