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 first 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
Simla Oksouz is a second-year master's student in Global Health at Uppsala University with a background in dental medicine. Passionate about improving health outcomes through interdisciplinary approaches, she combines her clinical experience with a global perspective to work on public health challenges.
Simla has experience working in student-led organizations, where she has been involved in organizing international collaborations and global health outreach initiatives. Her research interests focus on oral public health and migration and health. Her commitment to fostering interdisciplinary solutions and her enthusiasm for learning drive her efforts to bridge the gap between research and practice in global health.
PhD student representative
Luong Nguyen Thanh is a PhD student in Global Health at Uppsala University. He obtained a bachelor degree in Public Health at Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam and master degree in Health Risks Management at University of Liege, Belgium. His research interests concentrate on the global governance of antimicrobial resistance and other global health challenges