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Department of Epidemiology and Global Health

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.

Global Health Action and Somali Health Action Journal

The Department hosts the peer-reviewed journals Global Health Action and SHAJ - Somali Health Action Journal

Featured Stories

Four new research Fellows for The Arctic Five’s Fellows Programme

Four doctoral students and postdocs at Umeå University were selected after the Arctic Five Fellows call.

Lávvuo researchers helped establishing a new network at ISBNPA

Arctic Centre Funding – Read about Jon Petter Stoor and his funded participation at the ISBNPA conference.

Cooperation with South Africa on sustainability issues

Global challenges were in focus at the Research and Innovation Week in South Africa.

News

Four new research Fellows for The Arctic Five’s Fellows Programme
Published: 2023-08-11

Four doctoral students and postdocs at Umeå University were selected after the Arctic Five Fellows call.

Lávvuo researchers helped establishing a new network at ISBNPA
Published: 2023-08-02

Arctic Centre Funding – Read about Jon Petter Stoor and his funded participation at the ISBNPA conference.

Global challenges in focus at Swedish-South African research and innovation week
Published: 2023-04-24

Global challenges were in focus at the Research and Innovation Week in South Africa.

Umeå researcher in international final
Published: 2023-04-22

Umeå Professor is a finalist for Frontiers Planet Prize, which aims for solutions for healthy planet.