On 15 April, the two most senior European Union (EU) officials – President Ursula von der Leyen, who is also the leader of the European People’s Party, and Valdis Dombrovskis who, as Executive Vice-President, is one of the most influential representatives of Latvia in Europe from the party Jaunā Vienotība – visited Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU).
We are launching a five-story series about five passionate, courageous people who challenged themselves and made the decision to embark on a climb. This climb requires willpower, endurance, and flexibility to overcome difficulties that come up along the way, but in return brings new, exciting discoveries, support from a team, and access to dizzying horizons like we hear about from mountain climbers. You don't however always have to pack a backpack to get to the top – you can achieve the same by enrolling in a doctoral programme at RSU!
The Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) has signed a cooperation agreement with Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU). The agreement outlines a framework for exchanging best practices and how to cooperate in implementing innovations in science and studies.
‘Working together with LSMU, we witness the power of cooperation. Together, we will find new ways to innovate in research and education, to promote discovery, and to develop globally competitive study programmes.
On 18 April at 10.00, New Yorker journalist Joshua Yaffa will give a guest lecture on his career in journalism, including his time spent in Moscow and reporting from Ukraine. The lecture will take place in the RSU Main Building.
The lecture is organised in cooperation with the US Embassy in Latvia.
Everyone interested is welcome to attend!
Everyone is welcome to support our University’s basketball and volleyball games this Saturday, 13 April!
Jekaterina Kozačenko, a senior laboratory technician at the Rīga Stradiņs University (RSU) Institute of Public Health and a student in the Public Health master's degree programme, was awarded 1st place in the Public Health, Occupational Medicine, Nutrition Science, Rehabilitation section at this year's RSU International Student Conference (ISC).
On 10 and 11 October 2024, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) will host the two-day conference The Getaway Conference: Mobilities, Societies, the State, and Detoxing.
Ieva Puzo and Christian Ritter, leaders of the Migration and Mobility working group of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, are organising the two-day anthropological conference on human mobility in collaboration with researchers from RSU and the FLPP project (Re)moving Ties.
An online workshop "How to understand cohort and case-control study papers" will take place on Wednesday, 17 April, led by Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Visiting Professors in Family Medicine Michael Harris (UK) and Hans Thulesius (Sweden).
The workshop is intended for doctors, residents, students and anyone interested in using cohort and case-control research methods/outcomes in practice or research.
On 2 and 3 April, the Minister for Health Hosams Abu Meri, the management of Riga East Clinical University Hospital and Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) paid a work visit to Johns Hopkins Hospital. During the visit, an agreement was reached with the hospital on cooperation and exchange of experience in the digitisation of inpatient data, improvement of the care system and the use of simulation technologies in the training process.
On 2 April, the Cabinet of Ministers approved amendments to the Decree on Reorganisation of the Latvian Academy of Sport Education, which provides for the consolidation of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and the Latvian Academy of Sport Education (LASE) as of 1 July this year.
