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Jesper Löve

Senior Lecturer

School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Mail
jesper.love@socmed.gu.se
Visiting address
Guldhedsgatan 5 A, plan 3
413 20 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 469
40530 Göteborg

About Jesper Löve

My research and teaching focus on the drivers and manifestations of health inequalities. I examine how social, economic, and political structures shape population health and access to care. My work is interdisciplinary, integrating perspectives from social epidemiology, public health, and policy analysis to better understand—and address—unequal health outcomes. Methodologically, I combine intersectional and multilevel quantitative approaches with qualitative analyses to examine how health inequalities are produced and maintained across population groups.

Research interests (keywords)

  • Social inequalities in health

  • Gendered structures and health

  • Intersectionality and health

  • Health policy and inequalities

  • Barriers to healthcare access

  • Migration and health

  • Stigma and mental health

Ongoing research (selection)

  • ENTITLED (VR) – Elucidating inequalities in mental health and substance use: intersectional analyses of burden and access to care in Sweden

  • EMBRACE (FORTE) – Embracing diversity in vulnerability: a multilevel intersectional study of community vulnerability and public health system responses to COVID-19 and future pandemics

  • BRIDGE-CARE (FORTE) – Life course living conditions, care provision pathways, and frailty: applying Experience-Based Co-Design to develop integrated healthcare models for equitable care

  • EpiVib-Equality (FORMAS) – Effects of rail traffic noise and vibration on cardiometabolic health: examining social inequalities in exposure and susceptibility

Teaching commitments (selection)

  • Programme Director, Master’s Programme in Global Health, University of Gothenburg

  • Senior Lecturer, Master’s Programme in Public Health Science and Master’s Programme in Global Health

  • Senior Lecturer in Global Health, Medical Programme

  • Course leader, Health Equality and the Right to Health (MPH212)

  • Course leader, PhD course The Individual, Health, and the Community: Theory and Methods in Public Health and Community Medicine (SM00130)

Teaching themes (selection)

Social epidemiology; health inequalities; intersectionality; gender and health; commercial determinants of health

Ongoing PhD supervision

  • Helene Svensdotter – Selection and treatment effects within pain rehabilitation from a gender equality perspective (Co-supervisor)

  • Tornike Batavani – Inequalities in occupational health and safety in the construction sector in the Republic of Georgia, Tbilisi State University (Co-supervisor)

  • Mohammad Akbar Kabir – Financial risk protection for universal health coverage: cross-country analyses (Co-supervisor)

  • Zena Yared – Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among marginalised populations and access to equitable care (Co-supervisor)

  • Agneta Blomberg – Determinants of work capacity and participation among individuals with common mental disorders: a cross-sectional and longitudinal register-based study of Swedish employees (Co-supervisor)

Previous PhD supervision (defended)

  • Sophia Nguyen Ngoc Phuong – Tobacco control policies in Vietnam: evaluation and stakeholder perspectives (Co-supervisor)

  • Sara Blom – Unmet need for mental healthcare among men in Sweden: gendered pathways to care (Main supervisor)

  • Tommy Pehrson – Constructions of men and masculinities among professionals in sexual and reproductive health (Co-supervisor)

  • Solveig Lövestad – Intimate partner violence, sociodemographic factors, and mental health in population-based samples in Sweden (Co-supervisor)