
The Swedish National Society is organised from the
Center for Gender Medicine at Karolinska Institutet (KI) by Prof. Karin Schenck-Gustafsson. KI is one of the 6 European universities participating in the EUGIM Summerschool program “ Master in Gender Medicine”. There is a national web- course in gender medicine according to the Bologna principles and a yearly national PhD-course and 2 national congresses. Ten national gender medicine seminars are organised every year and an international Handbook of Gender Medicine is under preparation. Close collaboration is ongoing with the NGO 1.6 million club, with 38.000 participants in Sweden working for gender issues in health also in, Norway, Germany, and Russia.