The Global Working Group (GWG) on Salutogenesis is a team of international scholars with experience in research, theory, and practice of Salutogenesis. The GWG founded STARS in 2017 and is continuously advancing the website and the STARS activities.
Global Working Group
GWG Annual meeting, Bergen 2025
Current members
Center for Mental Health Services at the Medical Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Research interests:
- Salutogenesis and mental health promotion
- Conceptualization and measurement of the Sense of Coherence
- Social support
- PTSD and suicidality
Email: antonovsky.soc@gmail.com
Center of Salutogenesis, Institute of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Prevention, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Research interests:
- Salutogenic work & organizations
- Positive health development
- Theory of salutogenesis
- Agency
- Human-centred healthcare
Email: georg.bauer@uzh.ch
Department of Public health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, Italy
Email: pcontu@unica.it
Department of Health Promotion and Development, University of Bergen, Norway
Research interests:
- Salutogenesis and migration
- Salutogenesis and restorative justice
- Planetary health
- Life experiences and the dimensions of SOC
- Community coherence
Email: marguerite.daniel@uib.no
Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
Research interests:
- Workplace health promotion
- Public health
- Theory of salutogenesis
- Work psychology
Email: edarkwah@ug.edu.gh
Department of Psychology, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Email: jacek.hochwalder@mdu.se
Department of Sport Industry, Center for Exercise Medicine and Salutogenesis, Yonsei University, South Korea
Research interests:
- Exercise oncology
- Exercise physiology
- Brain health
Email: jjeon@yonsei.ac.kr
University of Girona, Spain
Research interests:
- Salutogenesis
- Health promotion
- Mental health
- Aging
Email: dolors.juvinya@udg.edu
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Norway
Research interests:
- Explore and develop Salutogenesis in different settings
- Salutogenic interventions
- Salutogenic talk therapy groups
- Salutogenesis and mental health promotion
- Promoting Salutogenic capacity
- Life promotion
Email: eva.langeland@hvl.no
Center of Salutogenesis, Institute of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Prevention, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Research interests:
- Salutogenic work & organizations
- Occupational health psychology
- Public mental health
Email: anja.lehmann@uzh.ch
World’s first Professor of Salutogenesis
Center for Health Promotion Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
“After more than 40 years of Salutogenesis it is still a challenge to understand how to create Coherence”
Email: bengtblind@hotmail.com
Center on Salutogenesis, Department of Health Sciences, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden
Research interests:
- Salutogenic healthcare
- Mental health
- Theory of salutogenesis
- Nursing
- Person centred care
Email: sofie.lundstrom@hv.se
Center for Health Promotion Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Research interests:
- Salutogenic and coherent settings and processes
- Salutogenesis and society
- The river of life
- Theory of Salutogenesis
- Participation and Life Experiences
- Salutogenesis and power
Email: ruca.e.maass@ntnu.no
School of Behavioural Sciences, Peres Academic Center, Israel
Research interests:
- Stress and resilience trajectories
- Sense of coherence at the individual and collective levels
- Collective trauma and mental health
Email: manna.adi@gmail.com
University of Graz, Faculty of Environmental, Regional and Educational Sciences, Institute for Early Childhood Care and Preschool Education, Austria
Email: claudia.meiermagistretti@uni-graz.at
Health and Family Medicine Program of the Department of Public Health, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Research interests:
- Primary health care
- Health promotion
- Family and community health
- Palliative care
- Health asset model
Email: perezwilson.udec@gmail.com
Department of Social Sciences, Health and Society, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Email: kristel.polhuis@wur.nl
Department of Family & Emergency Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada & National Institute of Public Health, Canada
Research interests:
- Salutogenesis in times of crisis or disasters
- Positive health measures
- Salutogenic orientation
- Health promotion
Email: mathieu.roy7@usherbrooke.ca
Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Email: saboga.nunes@gmail.com
Martin Springer Center of Conflict Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negevb, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Research interests:
- Salutogenic approach
- Conflict management and resolution
- Conflict studies
- Political psychology
Email: shifra@bgu.ac.il
Division of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Research interests:
- Health promotion
- Planetary salutogenesis
- Community development
- Salutogenic food systems
- Social food movements
Email: jake.sallaway-costello@nottingham.ac.uk
Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari
Research interests:
- Salutogenic schools and universities
- Prevention
- Health promotion
- Salutogenic health services
Email: csardu@unica.it
Alice Lee Center for Nursing Studies, Yong Lo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore
Email: nurssh@nus.edu.sg
Center of Salutogenesis, Institute of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Prevention, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Research interests:
- Salutogenesis at work
- Occupational well-being
- Personal development and meaningful work
- Work-life interface
- Sense of coherence
Email: martin.tusl@uzh.ch
Department of Social Sciences, Health and Society, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Research interests:
- Salutogenesis
- Participatory and arts-based research
- Healthy living environment
- Inclusive healthy settings
- Nature and wellbeing
- Livable cities
- Green care
Email: lenneke.vaandrager@wur.nl
