Organisation and leadership
Learn more about UGot Rework’s organisation and leadership.
Leadership
Maria Åberg
Director of UGot ReWork
Maria Åberg is a professor and Specialist physician in general medicine at the Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg. She also works as a clinician at Närhälsan Sisjön in western Gothenburg. Her research focuses on work ability, return to work and sustainable working life, with particular emphasis on mental health in primary care and the workplace. She studies links between early risk factors in young adulthood, later working conditions and mental health. She leads clinical studies in primary care on sickness absence outcomes related to anxiety disorders, as well as studies on sustainable working life in sectors such as construction, healthcare and social care.
Maria leads Work Package 4, which aims to identify early, modifiable and multi level factors that influence return to work, and to examine how individual, work related, healthcare related and insurance related factors interact.
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Elisabeth Björk Brämberg
Deputy Director of UGot ReWork
Elisabeth Björk Brämberg is an Associate Professor of Occupational Medicine and a Senior Lecturer in Insurance Medicine at the Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on how individuals on sickness absence who receive their care and treatment in primary care can be supported in the process of returning to work, particularly among people with depression, anxiety or reactions to severe stress. She also studies how different stakeholders can be involved in the return to work process, such as the workplace, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and occupational health services, as well as how insurance medicine processes can be implemented.
Elisabeth leads Work Package 1, which investigates how co created and individually tailored interventions can be developed, evaluated and implemented to support return to work after sickness absence due to mental health conditions or musculoskeletal pain.
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Reghan Borer
Administrative coordinator, UGot ReWork
Reghan is a communications officer and scientific editor with extensive experience in university administration and research communication.
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