Chairs and Speakers – N

Maria Nilsson, Professor of public health – orientation climate change and health, Umeå University, Sweden. Her main focus is climate change and health; adaptation, vulnerable populations, health and risk communication and knowledge translation. She was the integrating editor for health in the 2015 “Lancet Commission – Health and climate change” and co-leads the working group on adaptation, planning, and resilience for health in the global “Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change”. She chairs the Lancet Countdown in Europe, is Editor in chief for Global Health Action and a member of the health committee of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.

Margareta Nordin, Dr. Med. Sci., PT, Research Professor, Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Environmental Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA, has authored 5 books and >250 peer reviewed papers, participated in seven international based task forces on spine pain and received multiple awards, first woman President of ISSLS, EUROSPINE, World Spine Care Europe, and adjunct professor at multiple universities. She is a member of WHO Package of Rehabilitation Intervention for low back pain and the Speaker for SPINE20. Her primary interest is prevention of disability with focus on evidence, cultural adaptation, and acceptance.