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Alma is a doctor, with a specialist degree and a PhD in anaesthesia and intensive care. She also has a specialist degree in health care administration and a masters degree in public health and administration. Further, she has a diploma degree in public administration. Alma has been clinically active until she took on the current office as the Director of Health in 2018, the first woman in then its 258 years history. She has previously worked at the University Hospital in Lund Sweden and as a chief of both Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Landspitali University Hospital in Reykjavík.
In her lecture Alma will talk about the role of the Directorate of Health in accident prevention, that has mostly to do with information collection, advisory role to authorities and preventitive work covering the whole country, regarding promoting health in the society. She will also touch on the importance of statistics and research and look at statistics from Europe and WHO.