Keynote speakers

Caecilie Böck Buhmann MD

Buhmann holds a BSc in global health. She is currently studying MPH and is a resident at university hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark. Buhmann is board member of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), co-founder of the NWIP project (Nuclear Weapons Inheritans Project), and has 10 years experience on war prevention work. She has run several trainings and has published on issues of global health, nuclear weapons and peace through health.

Ole Danbolt Mjøs MD

Mjøs is professor in medical physiology at the University of Tromsø. Since 2003 he has chaired the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is responsible for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. Mjøs played a central role in educational politics in Norway, heading the commission which was named after him as "Mjøs-utvalget", which pioneered the Bologna-process in Norwegian higher education. He is former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tromsø and initiator of the Centre for Peace Studies, where he serves as the chairman of the Board.

Luc Reychler, Ph.D.

Luc Reychler (Ph.D. Harvard-76) is professor of International Relations at the University of Leuven, and director of its Center of Peace Research and Strategic Studies. He teaches courses on peace research and conflict prevention, multilateral diplomacy and negotiation techniques, and peace building architecture. His latest books are: Democratic Peace Building: The Devil Is in the Transition; Peace Building: A Field Guide; and Aid for Peace (2007). Reychler is Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association.  

Mike Rowson

Mike Rowson is a freelance consultant and part-time teaching fellow at the Centre for International Health and Development at University College London. He was formerly executive director of UK international health charity Medact www.medact.org, and was a managing editor of Global Health Watch 2005-2006: An Alternative World Health Report www.ghwatch.org. He is currently editing the textbook which accompanies the Medical Peace Work online course. 

Joanna Santa Barbara MD

Child psychiatrist and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University. Past- president of Physicians for Global Survival - Canada, and past vice-president of International Phsicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, IPPNW. Santa Barbara is active in the McMaster "peace-through-health" group and teaches an undergraduate elective. She has in particular been engaged in work on peaceful childrearing, has worked with mental health and peacebuilding in war-affected Croatia, and peace education in Afghanistan.

John S Yudkin MD FRCP

Emeritus Professor of Medicine, former Director of the International Health and Medical Education Centre, University College London; Bijzonder Hoogleraar (Visiting Professor) in Vascular Complications of Metabolic Diseases, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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