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The Department of Epidemiology and Global Health is an international, multidisciplinary research and teaching environment located within Umeå University’s Faculty of Medicine. Founded in 1986, we now have around 80 people from all over the world working in the department, with a shared mission to contribute to equitable and sustainable improvements in health and welfare across the globe.
The Department hosts the peer-reviewed journals Global Health Action and SHAJ - Somali Health Action Journal
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Julia Schröders and her research group will be part of a collaboration with researchers from India.
Obese Swedish men are at greater risk of dying than equally obese American men, according to doctoral thesis.
The importance of social ties for the health of ageing people in Europe is in focus in a new doctoral thesis.
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