The Centre for Health Crises has received funding from the Swedish government to increase and support collaboration across the country’s universities on the topic of health crises. Initially, the Centre completed an online mapping of ongoing activities and existing health crises competences at a majority of the universities. We have also recruited Caroline de Groot, who is coordinating the work and is in the process of reaching out to key groups and individuals to learn more.
Karolinska Institutet’s Centre for Health Crises is to receive SEK 15 million grant from Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. The money will be used to build up the centre and develop its activities over the coming two years. KI’s Centre for Health Crises (previously named “Health Emergency and Pandemic Science Centre”) opened in the summer of 2021 in order to bolster society’s capacity to deal with regional, national and global threats to human health. The idea for such a centre was born during the pandemic.