Resilient healthcare in the Nordic countries: Harmonising survey data, developing interventions and exchanging research experiences between Norway and Sweden

In this application, we propose that Professor Siw Tone Innstrand do a research visit to the Unit of Occupational Medicine at the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) at Karolinska Institutet.

Siw Tone Innstrand is professor and director of the interdisciplinary Center for Health Promotion Research at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has specialist expertise in intervention and implementation research, which is valuable to the research environment at the Unit of Occupational Medicine.

In addition, Siw Tone is an organisational psychologist, which is a discipline we do not currently have at the Unit, and her sharing of this knowledge is therefore valuable.We have designed a collaborative program for the research visit that emphasizes sharing scientific expertise and qualifications between Siw Tone and researchers at the Unit of Occupational Medicine, specifically in Emma Brulins’ research group.

The program includes presenting research and participating in discussions in seminars both at the institution and in various networks.

It also includes hosting a workshop to discuss how we can align epidemiological methods, occupational medicine, and organisational psychology in research.

In addition, we will work on two manuscripts and a grant proposal for further collaboration.One essential aim of the visit is to build a research network to create resilient healthcare in the Nordic countries by harmonising survey data and developing interventions.

Both Siw Tone and Emma Brulin (PI) have a broad national and international network that we will invite to the network on Resilient healthcare in the Nordic countries.

An interdisciplinary Nordic network will be able to inform local and regional governmental policy with multi-country data on resilient healthcare.