Conferences and symposiums KI Sustainability Day 2026
Thursday, 16 April, it is time for KI’s Sustainability Day 2026. This year, the theme is "From Plate to Planet: How Food Shapes Our Health". Employees and students are invited to a day in Flemingsberg with inspirational lectures, discussions and award ceremonies.
Registration is closed, please contact miljo@ki.se if you have any questions.
Program
Welcome and lectures
Introduction and welcome to the program
Shervin Shahnavaz, Vice chairperson of the council for environment and sustainable development
Lecture 1: Healthy food for all on a liveable planet – insights from the EAT – Lancet commission
Line Gordon from Stockholm Resilience Center
EAT - Lancet commission
Lecture 2: How food shapes our health
David Stenholtz, Founder of doctors for the future and author of the book "The Power of Diet" (Kosten kraft)
Questions
Break
Coffee will be served
Discussions
Discussions in small groups on various topics related to food, health and sustainable development goals.
Topics and discussion leader(s):
- Food and dental health - Elisabeth Augustinsson Palmqvist and Franziska Hetrodt, Dept of Dental Medicine, KI
- Feeding the Future: Sustainability in Health Education - Karin Leander, Institute of environmental medicine, KI
- Feeding Humanity: Industrial Agriculture and the Myth of Optimization - Dunia Rozakis and Maximilian Nikolas Opfer, Plant-based campus KI (student group)
- Micro- and Macroorganisms: The role of animal agriculture in infectious diseases - Anastasia Burlacioc, Guhan Venkatachalam and Anna Barna-Lázár, Students for sustainable development at KI (SSD)
- Food as a Movement: Reformaten and the Politics of Food System Transformation - Pelle Bengtsberg is an agronomist from the organization Reformaten
- Climate-smart and healthy food in Södertälje - Maria Micha and Sandra Sjöholm, from the regional development fund MatLust and Södertälje Municipality
- The Sprig of Thyme: Botanical self-reflections, SDGs and our health - Ebba Bohlin
- Herbal medicines, SDGs and our dependence on pollinating insects - Ernst Brodin
Summary and award ceremonies
Summary and panel discussion with discussion leaders, moderated by Emma Swärdh, a member of the council for environment and sustainable development.
The award ceremony winners for this year's sustainability award receive their awards from Matti Sällberg, Dean of KI campus south and Shervin Shahnavaz.