Student Section
Photos from the Student Section's Annual Networking Event 2024
On this page you can find selected photos from the Student Section's Annual Networking Event at KI on 2nd February 2024. You can also download the flyer for the event pdf, 152 kB..
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
Christianne Gonzales is a second year masters student from the Health Economics, Policy and Management in Karolinska Institutet. She is a pharmacist with very strong interest on improving access to healthcare, especially medicines. Before coming to KI, Christianne worked in the Philippines as a research assistant/research associate for NGOs and consulting firms in public health/health financing research projects, as a medication support liaison for some patient access programs, and as a volunteer for international pharmacy organizations and worked on projects on UHC and the role of pharmacists in improving access to medicines.
PhD student representative
Phuthumani Mlotshwa (HBMLS, MGH, PhD cand.) is a biomedical scientist with over a decade of experience in practising and leading capacity building in laboratory diagnostic systems in Zimbabwe’s public, private, and NGO sectors. He holds a Master’s in Global Health and is currently a Doctoral Student at Karolinska Institutet. His research focuses on capacity building in infectious disease diagnostics research and development in low-resource settings. He is an alumnus of the Swedish Institute for Global Professionals and the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community.
Current Globelife representatives from Uppsala University
Master's student representative
Catherine De Smedt is a master’s student in Global Health at Uppsala University. She has a bachelor’s in nutrition & dietetics and teaching. Throughout her first year pursuing her master’s, she developed a bigger passion for global nutrition, maternal-, and child health.
During the past year, Catherine has been a digital international student ambassador and a team member of the MMC event team for Uppsala University, where she has led various events for MMC and was a panel speaker several times during webinars organised by Uppsala University.
She is very excited to be part of the studentsection of GlobeLife this year.
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.