Nadija Children's Hospital & Research Institute

Nadija Children's Hospital & Research Institute

20-22 OCTOBER 2024

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There is an urgent need for mental health and psychosocial support for the 1.5 million Ukrainian children at risk of developing mental health disorders as a result of the war. The vast majority need psychological care, but there are also children in need of trauma surgery and physical rehabilitation.

The Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the Danylo Halytsky National Medical University in Lviv have entered into a partnership with the Nadija Foundation to establish a Children's Medical Rehabilitation Center in Ukraine – “CMRC” – for the purpose of physical and psychological rehabilitation of Ukrainian children who have suffered physical and psychological losses and trauma as a result of the war.

The project includes, but is not limited to, the following components:

1. A Virtual Hospital with telemedicine, international expertise support and triage for outpatient rehabilitation;

2. A Research Institute, conducting research on the implementation of evidence-based rehabilitation practices for the advancement of medical rehabilitation in Ukraine;

3. A Rehabilitation Hospital, with inpatient care, trauma surgery and other specialised departments, with the vision of becoming a centre of excellence in Ukraine.

We believe that you can play a vital role in shaping the future of children and young people in Ukraine during and after the war. Therefore, the Nadija Foundation would like to invite you to an Impact Summit (symposium) with the clear objective of starting the journey towards the establishment of the research institute, which could potentially also serve as an academy, training experts for Ukraine and other crises zones in the future.

The project already has the support of Nordic business leaders and philanthropists such as Viveca Ax:son Johnson, chairman of Nordstjernan, the af Jochnick family through Medicover Foundation and Supercell founder Ilkka Paananen, The Lundbeck Foundation and Kristin Skogen Lundh, ex-CEO of Schibstedt and chairperson of INSEAD.

The symposium will bring together world-leading experts from academia, NGOs, UN agencies and the private sector together with Ukrainian key opinion leaders and funders who support mental health research and practice. The aim is to jointly develop a road map for the proposed research centre.

The symposium will cover key topics including scalable and clinical interventions, school-based interventions, digital methods/interventions, health systems research and the traumatology of war-affected children. Each topic will be introduced by a leading expert, followed by in-depth discussions between participants and Ukrainian experts to set the research agenda. Confirmed speakers include internationally recognised experts in their fields, such as Richard Bryant, Naser Morina, Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Wendy Silverman, Cathy Creswell, Andrea Danese and Andreas Wladis.

The symposium will be organised on 20–22 October 2024 at the World Heritage Site Engelsberg Ironworks, less than 2 hours drive from Stockholm. It will start in the late afternoon of Sunday 20 October with a short opening session followed by a welcome reception and dinner. The programme will finish in the morning of Tuesday 22 October. A bus will transport all participants to and from Engelsberg. The bus is scheduled to leave Stockholm at 15:00 on 20 October from Biblioteksgatan 27 and depart from Engelsberg at 11:30 on 22 October. Approximately 80 participants will attend the seminar.

If you have any additional questions, please contact:
Michaela Arvidsson
+46 76 773 30 20
michaela.arvidsson@axess.se

The symposium is made possible thanks to a generous donation from the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.