Global Public Health Research Group

Research group

Active research

Project owner

Institute of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine

Area

Health and

medicine

Topic

Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and

Epidemiology

Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health

Economy

Short description

Global public health is an interdisciplinary subject that transcend national boundaries as area for education, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving health equity for all people worldwide. Global public health therefore calls for trans-national actions across all sectors in society.

The research in the Global Public Health group is driven by a multidisciplinary team with 33 members (and growing), led by four professors, four associate professors, senior lectures, post-docs, researchers, as well as 14 PhD students. The studies are inter-disciplinary, taking advantage of the strengths of both quantitative and qualitative studies.

Our research

Global public health is an interdisciplinary subject that transcend national boundaries as area for education, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving health equity for all people worldwide. Global public health therefore calls for trans-national actions across all sectors in society. A key pillar of global public health is to study the importance of how the distribution of resources, as well as the physical and social environment, affect the health of worldwide populations.

The research conducted in the Global Public Health group aims to reduce health inequalities and improve the population health at worldwide. To achieve this, we conduct research on the biological and social determinants of health to understand the mechanisms of illnesses. This knowledge will allow us to identify health promotion strategies that could promote health and prevent diseases. In addition, we also look at the broader determinants of health such as the health system, public health policies, human rights and the right to health.

Research conducted in the Global Public Health research group is diverse, including: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mental illness, ageing and well-being among older people, sexual and reproductive health, intimate partner violence, nutrition, human rights and the right to health, migration and health, as well as research on health systems and public health policy. The research group has an interest to develop more research within the field of climate change and health in the near future.

Most research coming from the Global Public Health team is based on population-based epidemiological studies, analysis of register data, surveillance and modelling based on the epidemiological data, clinical and molecular epidemiology studies, health promotion studies, health system research, and development studies.

The research in the Global Public Health group is driven by a multidisciplinary team with 33 members (and growing), led by four professors, four associate professors, senior lectures, post-docs, researchers, and 14 PhD students. The studies are inter-disciplinary, taking advantage of the strengths of both quantitative and qualitative studies.

Research streams

The research within the Global Public Health Research Group fall within a few streams, including:

Intimate partner violence in Rwanda
Gunilla Krantz, Solveig Lövestad, Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta
Sexual and reproductive health in Sweden and Angola
Gunilla Priebe, Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta
Ageing and wellbeing in low- and middle-income countries
Ailiana Santosa, Jesper Löve, Junmei Miao Jonasson, Monica Hunsberger, Nawi Ng, Sven Hassler, Göran Bondjers
Health equality and social determinants of health
Gunilla Krantz, Jesper Löve, Solveig Lövestad, Ailiana Santosa, Junmei Miao Jonasson, Nawi Ng, Gunilla Priebe, Sven Hassler
Chronic non-communicable diseases
Göran Bondjers, Nawi Ng, Jesper Löve, Junmei Miao Jonasson, Ailiana Santosa, Monica Hunsberger, Gunilla Krantz
Infectious diseases, epidemiological surveillance and modelling
Marian Warsame Yusuf, Kristina Elfving, Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Delér Shakely
Human rights and the right to health and developmental studies
Henry Ascher, Damon Barrett, Gunilla Priebe, Malin Nystrand, Sven Hassler
Health promotion and community-based participatory research
Monica Hunsberger, Sven Hassler

Ongoing research projects

2012 - (renewed annually) The "CARTA Project" The research capacity building project in Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) is funded by Wellcome Trust and Sida through African Population And Health Research Center (APHRC). Team: Göran Bondjers (PI), Emma Bergstedt, Monica Hunsberger
2015-2020 VR - International post-doc grant. Degrees of contestation - relations between smallholders and investors in large-scale agricultural investments.
Team: Malin Nystrand (PI)
2020-2025 VR - CASH-IN: privately managed cash transfers in Africa
Team: Malin Nystrand (PI)
2018-2020 SASUF - South African Swedish University Forum, Scientific Research Collaboration.
Team: Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, PhD (PI)
2019-2024 Saudi Ministry of Education - Exploring the readiness of community pharmacies for practice change within Saudi Arabia: towards the 2030 national vision
Team: Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, PhD (PI)
2020 - 2024 Saudi Ministry of Education - Mortality and morbidity aspects of self-care and barriers to accessing healthcare among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: novel applications in the Saudi and Swedish context
Team: Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, PhD (PI)
2014-2021 Forte - Influences of diet, sleep, and mental health on overweight from infancy to adolescence: IDEFICS and I.Family.
Team: Monica Hunsberger
2016-2021 von Sydow Foundation
Team: Monica Hunsberger
2020-2021 Assembling a sustainable team (Lab) of advance spatio-temporal modelling and implementation research in the context of climate change and health. Principal Investigator.
Team: Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, PhD
2018-2021 VR. Project Grant. Causation and Novel Risk Modelling for Person-Centred Prevention and Control of Cardiovascular Diseases.
Team: Nawi Ng
2017-2022 Västra Götaland Region grant. Intimate partner homicide in Västra Götaland in the period 2000-2016, investigating risk factors, course of events and family members observations to find preventive activities for the health care and social services.
Team: Gunilla Krantz, Solveig Lövestad
2019-2022 VR - Swedish Development Research Grant. Mitigating poverty and disablement in older age: Understanding the complex interactions of factors influencing equitable healthy ageing in Myanmar.
Team: Nawi Ng (PI), Ailiana Santosa
2019-2024 Swedish Development Research grant. Undernutrition - an interdisciplinary program focusing on children and their mothers in Rwanda.
Team: Gunilla Krantz (PI); Kristina Elfving
2020-2024 ALF - How does subclinical and symptomatic infections contribute to the risk of stunting in the first years of life in Rwandan children.
Team: Kristina Elfving (PI)
2018 - 2024 VR - Ageing and wellbeing in low- and middle-income countries
Team: Nawi Ng (PI)
2021-2022. VR Swedish Research Link Project Grant. Improving access to health care services for pastoral nomads in Somalia
Team: Marian Warsame (PI)