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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

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Reform provided better access to health care in Ecuador

A significant improvement in access to health care resulted from a major health care reform in Ecuador.

Hans Pettersson, Albin Stjernbrandt, Rebecca Tapper, and Jens Wahlström
Umeå University is highly represented at Arctic Congress 2024

The Arctic Congress 2024 gathered many researchers from Umeå University who presented their research.

Petter Stoor
Awarded for research on Sámi health

Jon Petter Stoor, Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, has been awarded a prize and SEK 176,674.

News

Reform provided better access to health care in Ecuador
Published: 2024-10-01

A significant improvement in access to health care resulted from a major health care reform in Ecuador.

Umeå University is highly represented at Arctic Congress 2024
Published: 2024-06-14

The Arctic Congress 2024 gathered many researchers from Umeå University who presented their research.

Awarded for research on Sámi health
Published: 2024-06-04

Jon Petter Stoor, Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, has been awarded a prize and SEK 176,674.

Emergency: climate change threatens health in Europe
Published: 2024-05-13

If it’s not done, extreme weather and diseases could hit Europe, states a report from the Lancet Countdown.