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Health Systems and Policy

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Research in health systems and policy seeks to understand and improve how societies organise themselves to achieve collective health goals.

What we study

We study policy outcomes as well as policy and implementation processes, including the contributions of different actors. Research questions concern the coverage, quality, cost-effectiveness and equity of health systems and interventions.

How we work

Our research draws on many disciplines, including economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, public health and epidemiology.

Methods include policy analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, realist evaluation and embedded research.

Research projects

Protected shelters in transition: marketization dynamics and policy shifts
Research area: Gender studies, Social work
Duration 1 January 2026 until 31 December 2028
Type of project Research project
Decision support for transparent, equitable and effective prioritisation in municipal crime prevention work
Research area: Economics
Duration 1 April 2025 until 1 April 2029
Type of project PhD project
Are we on a path towards equitable oral care in Sweden?
Research area: Odontology, Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2025 until 31 December 2028
Type of project Research project
Creating a locally integrated and purposeful support system

How can young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEETs) be supported?

Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2024 until 1 August 2028
Type of project PhD project
Bridging the gap between the youth clinics and young men

How do we attract more boys and young men to youth clinics in Sweden?

Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2026
Type of project Research project
Screened – then what? Improving the health system response to social-emotionally vulnerable preschool children.
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2026
Type of project Research project
Negotiating the risk of segregation - public and civic responses to growing social inequalities in a "not yet" divided city
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 September 2022 until 31 December 2026
Type of project Research project
Developing social network interventions in Nepal and Indonesia: the SNI-Links network
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Strengthening social accountability for improving health system in Tanzania: how can health facility governing committees fulfil their role?
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Can community health workers contribute to strengthen health systems in Latin America?
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Daring to ask about violence? Analysing and improving social services’ question-centred responses to gender-based violence
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 July 2021 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
Leaving no one behind: intersectional health system equity in Sweden
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
The implementation of regional development to reduce stigma of mental illness and suicide – A process evaluation
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2021
Type of project Research project
How do community-based initiatives for young people in NEET situations work, and why?
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
Impact of national Covid-19-related policies on loneliness among elderly receiving elderly care
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 1 December 2020 until 30 June 2022
Type of project Research project
Dietitian Online (DiOn)
Research area: Food, Nutrition and Culinary Science
Duration 15 August 2018 until 31 March 2027
Type of project Research project
Topas - an evaluation of the tobacco prevention program Tobaksfri Duo
Research area: Public health and health care science
Duration 5 January 2017 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project

Research groups

Norrland Observatory for Equity in Health and Health Care
Read more about Norrland Observatory for Equity in Health and Health Care
Research area: Public health and health care science
Theme Qualitative methods
A meeting platform for doctoral students, researchers and teachers who are interested in qualitative methods.
U-CHEC
Read about the U-CHEC collaboration
Research area: Public health and health care science

Researchers in this field

Rodrigo Karlop Arce Cardozo Research student
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Lina Ärlebrant Research student
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Huzeifa Aweesha Staff scientist
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Mazen Baroudi Research fellow
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+46 90 786 75 54
Dean Carson Visiting researcher
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+46 90 786 63 03
Carla Challgua Huanca Research student
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Isabel Goicolea Professor
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+46 90 786 54 66
Anna-Karin Hurtig Professor
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+46 90 786 68 12
Kapuya Hussein Athuman Research student
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Albert Brunet Johansson Doctoral student
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+46 90 786 75 52
Anika Juneja Research student
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Ida Linander Associate professor
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+46 90 786 95 21
Lars Lindholm Professor
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+46 90 786 96 53
Maria Lindström Associate professor
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+46 90 786 62 67
Kristina Lindvall Associate professor
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+46 90 786 72 45
Curt Löfgren Associate professor
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+46 90 786 95 53
Kaspar Meili Staff scientist
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+46 90 786 92 89
Paola Mosquera Mendez Research fellow
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+46 90 786 95 93
Chama Mulubwa Research fellow
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Nawi Ng Professor
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+46 90 786 63 93
Faustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi Research fellow
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+46 90 786 54 58
Fredrik Norström Associate professor
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+46 90 786 56 29
Raman Preet Research coordinator
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+46 90 786 52 21
Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström Associate professor
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+46 90 786 65 29
Frida Puntonet Davidila Doctoral student
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Klas-Göran Sahlen Associate professor
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+46 90 786 63 58
Miguel San Sebastian Professor
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+46 90 786 51 50
Julia Schröders Research fellow
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+46 90 786 95 88
Karin Spetz Research student
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James Thomas Ssenfuuma Research student
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Sun Sun Visiting researcher
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Points of contact

Mazen Baroudi Research fellow
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+46 90 786 75 54
Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström Associate professor
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+46 90 786 65 29
Latest update: 2026-10-02