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.
You can find the previous representatives on this page.
Current GlobeLife representatives from Karolinska Institutet
Master's student representative
Irene Abuhatab Arias is a second-year Master's student in Global Health at Karolinska Institutet with a background in Nursing and Obstetrics, as well as a Master's degree in International Migrations and Health Interventions. Her professional experience spans clinical care, humanitarian aid, migration health, research and public health. Through her work in emergency response, primary care, and coordination roles, she has supported training activities, and project management processes. Her interests lie in migration and health, emergency preparedness, scientific communication, health diplomacy and health systems that improve access to care for vulnerable populations.
Current Globelife representatives from Uppsala University
Master's student representative
Efthymia Evridiki Vraila is a second year master’s student in Global Health at Uppsala University with a background in psychology. Her interests lie in the intersection of health psychology and human rights, along with a focus in research in social sciences, in aspiration to integrate these fields to play a meaningful role in advancing accessibility to healthcare and understanding of science for all. Other than research, she has worked with diverse groups of people, including children, teenagers, immigrants, and individuals living with HIV.
PhD student representative
Jasmine Therese Arcilla is PhD Student doing interdisciplinary work under the Centre for Gender Research and the Centre for Health and Sustainability at Uppsala University (UU). She is a licensed medical doctor from the Philippines and holds two master’s degrees—a Master of Public Health (MPH), and a Master of Science (MSc) in Sexual, Reproductive and Perinatal Health. Her grassroots experiences working as a public health practitioner within the Philippine healthcare system, combined with her diverse educational background within the global health sector, have led to her current research work on holistically understanding the socioecological factors—driven by power and gender structures—that influence the transmission of certain zoonotic diseases, as well as the implications these have on marginalised human and more-than-human lives.