Om mig
Associate professor in public health sciences. The PhD thesis evaluated the Swedish Quitline including a cost-effectiveness analysis. As head of unit at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, (LIME) I have the overarching responsibility for finances, human resources and unit activities.
My research focuses on generating evidence for effective prevention and promotion in health care. Studies on the effectiveness of innovative tobacco prevention interventions in Swedish primary care as well as the use of big data for health care policy are some examples. The research is both national and international and several projects have been funded by EC.
Forskningsbeskrivning
Head of the research group Prevention - Policy & Practice at LIME.
Ongoing implementation project in Stockholm Region - Tobacco Cessation on Prescription, TOR. Implementation strategies that will be used are the development of local routines for tobacco cessation, training of healthcare staff in tobacco cessation and the treatment method TOR. The prescription form itself is integrated in the medical record system. Surveys and interviews with healthcare professionals and business managers to identify factors that affect the implementation of the treatment method are also planned. A collaboration project with representatives from the Stockholm Region, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and other relevant actors, including healthcare staff.
PI and Swedish partner for EU funded (6 mEuro) iHELP project including 15 partners. The project focus is on early identification and mitigation of the risks associated with Pancreatic Cancer based on the application of advanced AI-based learning and decision support techniques on the historic (primary) data of Cancer patients gathered from established data banks and cohorts. https://ihelp-project.eu Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cancer: A Literature Review, CRR-6-241.pdf (oatext.com)
Commissioned by the Public Health Agency to conduct an interview study as part of a larger project - "Follow-up of digital initiatives, capacity and competence in the local health promotion and prevention ANDT work 2020-2021". Preconditions, opportunities and challenges in the process of digitalization was investigated to explain any consequences with regard to equality. Report Dnr: 03384-2021
Previously principal investigator for the clinical trial "Motivation 2 Quit" M2Q with the aim to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Tobacco Cessation on Prescription, TCP compared to current practice for tobacco cessation targeting socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Funding was provided by Stockholm County Council, The Public Health Agency of Sweden and Scandia.
Was Swedish PI for EC funded (5 mEuro) CrowdHEALTH project including 17 other institutions (universities, and other authorities as well as industry). CrowdHealth is delivering a secure ICT plattform to collect and aggregate high volumes health data from multiple information sourses in Europe. CrowdHealth also proposes the evolution of patient health records (PHR) towards Holistic Health Records (HHRs) enriched to become "Social HHRs" to capture the clinical, social, and human factors. For more details please see: http://www.crowdhealth.eu/ ://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/209158_en.html
International experiences includes also studies in LMIC, Lao PDR on tobacco policy.
My educational research includes combining physical and virtual contexts through “Augmented Reality” applications that could contribute to the improvement of competencies among healthcare professionals. In another study findings show that educational leadership involves processes on the levels of students, teachers as community and at the organisational level. A systemic approach is essential for effective implementation of educational leadership to reach all levels via interaction and communication across an organization.
Pedagogiska meriter
Extensive teaching experience for students, health care professionals, policy makers nationally and internationally. Teaching methods include the three levels of Learning: informative, formative and transformative. My commitment to education extends from course level to strategic levels in different committees, councils and boards.
Programme director, Public Health Sciences and Global Health programmes (2008-2015).
My work as former director at the Centre for Clinical Education, CEE aimed to contribute to the continuous professional development including qualified supervision and clinical training at the Stockholm County Council.
Previously assigned by the Board of Education, Karolinska Institutet, (KI) to ensure high competence of health care professionals meeting the demands of todays as well as preparing for the challenges of tomorrow. My vision is excellence in all educational programmes through reforms to foster team learning and inter-professional education, facilitating all three levels of learning: informative, formative and transformative. Initiated a Nordic process starting with the conference "Educating Health Professionals for a New Century" at Nobel Forum 2012. Co-organized 2014 the follow-up work-shop "Educating health professionals for tomorrow's global healthcare systems - the role of universities" in collaboration with Lund University, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the InterAcacademy Medical Panel (IAMP) and KI.
Active in the work of KI:s internationalization action plan 2014-2017. This is in line with aims in SDG17 on partnerships in UN Agenda 2030 and I initiated a course in "Sustainable Development", 7,5 ECTS already in 2010. The integration of a global perspective into all courses is a means to that end and hence I worked to realize this. Established strategic collaboration between KI and Schools of Public Health in Europe, China and US.
Utbildning
I have developed master programmes, courses and been lecturer in first and second cycle education within public health. Aspects that I focused on include prevention, health promotion, behavioral change and leadership. Faculty training has been conducted with programme directors, deans, hospital directors in different contexts. A Global Health example is the "Leading change in higher education" programme at Makerere university, held four times.