On Saturday, 30 March 2019, Karolinska Institutet, with the support of the University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, arranged a one-day conference entitled, Rethinking Higher Education – Inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals. The conference report as a pdf document is available here. The purpose of the conference was to create a dialogue around the role of higher education in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a special focus on the targets that are most closely connected to health.