Flyer
13th March 2025 | 17:00h
Online
With the International Seminar “Organizational Resilience in Healthcare Systems” the launch of the 4th edition of the “Post-Graduation course in Ergonomics in the Resilience of Labor Organizations” is held.
This seminar aims to frame the challenges of strengthening resilience in healthcare settings, through the empowering of healthcare leaders. The approach centered on ergonomics and human factors associated with a systemic view of work systems is of the utmost importance in the management of occupational risks in complex systems.
Thus, this seminar will present the vision of Professor Siri Wiig, from the Department of Quality and Health Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences in Norway and Director of the Centre for Resilience in Healthcare - SHARE.
The seminar takes place online, free of charge, upon registration
The seminar will be presented in English.
Programme
17h - Opening Session
- Dean of FMH - Prof. Dr. Luís Betencourt Sardinha
- General Inspector of ACT - Drª Maria Fernanda Campos
- Coordinator of the Occupational Health Programme of DGS - Dr. José Manuel Rocha Nogueira
- Secretary of APERGO – Dr. João Carmo
17:30h – Siri Wiig (University of Stavanger, Norway)
- Researching Adaptive Capacity and Resilient Healthcare – where is the research today and what can we expect in the future?
18:20h – Questions and Answers
- Chairs: Teresa Cotrim, & Rui Melo (FMH-ULisboa);
19:00h – Closing
Invited Speaker Short Bio
Siri Wiig
Siri Wiig, PhD, MSc, is Professor and Centre Director at SHARE - Centre for Resilience in Healthcare, at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. The SHARE Centre is the largest research group in Norway doing research on quality and safety in healthcare. Wiig is full Professor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiS. Wiig is Adjunct Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and Senior Adviser at Stavanger University Hospital, Norway; and Honorary Professor at Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia and at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Wiig’s key research interests are resilience in healthcare, patient safety, quality improvement, safety investigations, risk regulation, leadership, and learning in socio-technical systems.
Wiig has been involved in multiple large international research grants and led the Research Council of Norway project Resilience in Healthcare (2018-2024) (5 Mill. Euro).
The RIH project developed a new theoretical and translational framework for resilience and included an international comparative study across six countries including Australia, England, Switzerland, Japan, the Netherlands and Norway. The RIH project let up the EU Horizon Europe Grant Support4Resilience (S4R)-Strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing through the Support4Resilience toolbox for leaders in elderly care (2024-2028) (6 Mill. Euro). Prof Wiig is coordinator of the consortium of 14 partners from 9 countries in the Support4Resilience project.
Link to University of Stavanger employee profile: Siri Wiig | Universitetet i Stavanger (uis.no)
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