Department staff

Programme Administrator of the Public Health Programmes. Secretary for the Programme council PRPH. Administration in Selma, student support & course administration.

Doctoral student evaluat­ing the Västerbotten Intervention Programme from a health economic perspective

Post doc. PhD. MSc in work- and organizational psychology. Current research is focused on knowledge governance and implementation processes in healthcare and social services. 

Head of the Dept. of Epidemiology and Global Health. Areas of interest: international health policy and systems research, community based health systems and primary health care, and migrant health.

Doctoral student at the Department for Epidemiology and Global Health. The overall aim my research is to explore how teenagers involved in various civic organizations and leisure activities 

Professor in Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences. MD with specialist training in Paediatrics and a PhD in Paediatrics.

Principal investigator on the EU H2020 research and innovation programme project, Zika Preparedness Latin American Network, ZikaPLAN.

BA (York), MSc, PhD (Warwick). I research and teach in global health and health economics.

PhD. Senior lecturer in public health. Head of Welfare Research and Development Unit, Region Västerbotten. Studies on social services challenges in sparsely populated areas.

Doctotal student at the Department of Epi­demiology and Global Health.

Research focus on weather and climate change impacts on human health in Sweden and in low- and middle-income countries.

Main research interest are climate change, health- and risk communication and information systems. 

Senior lecturer in Economics. PhD in Public Health, particularly issues on health financing in low and middle income countries, e.g. how to pro­tect households from cata­strophic health expenditure.

- Research focus on support structures for development and change, mainly in public organizations - Grounded in work- and organizational psychology - Also employed by KI (LIME/MMC)

Study Administrator and Study Councelor of the Public Health Programme. Working with student support and course administration.

Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Senior Lecturer in Health Economics. Teacher in biostatistics and health economics. Leading a project with a health economic focus.

My research is about health systems access and strengthening in rural areas and I have a special interest for social inequalities in and determinants of health and health care.

Statistician, Data Scientist and IT responsible at the Department

Teaching in health promotion, health promoting health services and qualitative methodology. Research areas are health promotion, prevention, implementation and collaboration/integration.

Statistician, associate professor and docent in cancer epidemiology.

Ida is a postdoctoral researcher and works at both Epidemiology and Global Health and at the Umeå Center for Gender Studies.

My research focuses on gender and health systems (especially sexual and reproductive health, violence against women and youth health) and innovative mixed methodologies research.

Editor for Global Health Action. Also supervising and mentoring students in scientific writing and manuscript preparation.

Mathematical modeling of climate change, dengue & mosquitoes. System dynamic modelling of happiness & life satisfaction. PhDs in physics 1989 (USA) and in public health 2018 (Sweden).

Associate Professor in Global Health. Also serves as Section Editor for Global Health Action, and as Vice Chair of the INDEPTH Network's Social Science Research Working Group.

Doctoral project: Chronic disease and disability in a transitional lower middle-income country: Exploring the causal role of social networks in Indonesia.

Main supervisor: Miguel San Sebastián

I am the administrative coordinator at the department.

My duties consist of staff issues and overall administration at the department. I also participate in the management team's work.

I support and develop the process of application for external research funding, an review draft applications. I also teach research funding application writing.

PhD student in health economics, working on CALYs - Capability-Adjusted Life Years. CALYs are based on Sen's capability approach and are used in the same ways as QALYs.

PhD, researcher in epidemiology and public health.

Deputy head of the Department and chair of the Program Council for the Master Programs in Public Health (PRPH). Research mainly in health economics and health related preventive actions.

First research ass. PhD in Public Health at Umeå University in 2013. Lecture in Qualitative Methodology and Nutrition. Research on Weight maintenance, Risk communication and Interventions.

Professor in Health eco­nomics. Studies on equity in health economic evaluation and the use of epidemiological data in the distribu­tion of health care resources.

Senior Professor in Epidemi­ology and Family Medicine.

Website responsible for the external and internal websites, staff directory co-ordinator. Also administrating the publication and research databases.

My research concerns implementation- and change processes in health systems. I have particular interest for questions in the cross-section between psychology, governance and public health.

My research is in the field of climate change and health. My main interest is climate adaptation, climate communication and policy development.

Associate professor in epidemiology and biostatistics. Lecturer in biostatistics and appointed as “Excellent teacher” in Umeå University’s pedagogical qualification model.

Postdoc with research within the social and contextual determinants of health and health inequalities, gender and social capital, child and adolescents' health and educational achievement.

PhD student at the Department of Epidemiology and Global Health in the field of young migrants' health

Main areas of interest: teaching, supervision and research on socioeconomic inequalities of health and health systems strengthening

PhD-student with focus on conflict management, mental health and personality. 

Research about implementation, development and learning processes in organisations

I am a Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health with the main research interest in the ageing population, disability, chronic non-communicable diseases, and surveillance of risk factors. I utilise Swedish register data - the Linnaues Database - which is hosted at Umeå University, as well as global data on ageing and adult health. 

I am a post-doctoral researcher on weather and climate change impacts on human health

Researcher and lecturer in epidemiology and social epidemiology.

I am a teaching and learning researcher with a special interest in all forms of social inequalities in health and health care.

Professor of Global Health, specialist in measuring and evaluating health in low- and middle-income countries.

Twitter @PeterByass

Chief Editor of Global Health Action www.globalhealthaction.net

Dental and global health researcher with expertise in coordination and management of health research projects especially European Union funded grants.

Financial coordinator, works with budgeting, economic planning and accounting

Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Public Health.

Health Outcomes Researcher & Health Economist & Real-World Evidence

Financial administrator, responsible for supplier and customer invoices, payments, project reporting and follow-up.

PhD research education administrator.

I work with web and communication, research courses, Phd administration,  project administration, and publication database DiVA.

Medical data manager