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Max Petzold

Director

SND
Mail
max.petzold@gu.se
Visiting address
Medicinaregatan 18A
41390 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 463
40530 Göteborg

Avd-/Sektionschef, Inst

School of Public Health and Community
Medicine
Mail
max.petzold@gu.se
Visiting address
Medicinaregatan 18A, våning 4
41390 Göteborg
Room number
654
Postal address
Box 463
40530 Göteborg

Avd-/Sektionschef, Inst

School of Public Health and Community
Medicine
Telephone
+46 703-86 70 77
Mail
max.petzold@gu.se

Professor

Institute of
Medicine
Telephone
+46 703-86 70 77
Mail
max.petzold@gu.se
Visiting address
Medicinaregatan 18A, våning 4
41390 Göteborg
Room number
654
Postal address
Box 463
40530 Göteborg

About Max Petzold

I have my entire education at the University of Gothenburg and began my studies on the Mathematical Science Physics program but switched to statistics in which I have a master's degree. In parallel, I read four semesters of economics and business administration. I did my doctorate in 2003 with a focus on biostatistics and then worked for 8 years as a senior lecturer at the Nordic University of Public Health Sciences and in 2012 took up a professorship in health science statistics at the Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy.

Since 2015, I have been director of the Swedish National Data Service (www.snd.gu.se), which is mainly financed by the Swedish Research Council and run by the 8 largest universities in Sweden, with the University of Gothenburg as the host institution. The SND has approximately 30 employees and works to enable Swedish researchers to share their research data in a legally correct manner based on their own wishes and the requirements from journals and research funders regarding Open Science.

Since 2018, I have also been head of department for Community Medicine and Public Health within the Department of Medicine. My responsibility has been to create what we now call the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM) based on 5 previous units. Our activities span global public health, general medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, social medicine, community pharmacy, health economics, registry epidemiology and biostatistics and include roughly 100 teachers and researchers as well as 50 external doctoral students. SPHCM is responsible for two master's programs as well as approximately 1 year of medical education.

My teaching activities include over 3,000 chair hours on master's and doctoral courses. I have been responsible for the development of over 20 master's and doctoral courses as well as being responsible for the Bologna adaptation of a master's program. I am currently involved in Erasmus projects to strengthen undergraduate and postgraduate education in public health sciences in Georgia, Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine. Through SND, I am committed to building commissioned training in research data management for some of Sweden's largest companies.

As a statistician, I have had the privilege of being able to get involved in a wide range of research projects in Sweden, the Nordic countries and mainly in low- and middle-income countries in the rest of the world. My research spans, for example, randomized controlled clinical studies of dental implants in Sweden to the analysis of broad societal interventions against dengue in Africa and Latin America, from registry studies of artificial insemination in the Nordic countries to longitudinal evaluations of health reforms in Africa, Asia and South America, and from addiction studies in Swedish municipalities to global WHO estimates of the proportion of prematurely born children.

As of January 2023, I have participated in 338 peer-reviewed articles with a total of over 90,000 citations and an H-index of 86 (Researchgate). Furthermore, I have acted as principal/co-supervisor for 35 completed or ongoing doctoral studies, and have repeatedly sat in review groups for research grants at the Wellcome Trust, the Swedish Research Council, Forte and various Horizon preparations. As the main applicant, I myself have drawn in roughly SEK 165 million for research and research infrastructure, mainly from the Swedish Research Council. See further https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Max-Petzold/stats