Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Public Health. Main area of interest: public health, disability, gender-based violence, reproductive health in Sweden and Sub-Saharan Africa.
I am the principal investigator for the Kempe research project (that runs between 2025 and 2027. This project seeks to contibute new knowledge on the reproductive health outcomes of Women with Disabilities in Sweden and Zambia. The research team uses a mixed methods approach that combines national register data, cross-sectional surveys and qualitative interviews to address the following research questions:
1) What are the reproductive needs of women with disabilities in Sweden and Zambia?
2) How are the reproductive health care needs of WWDs addressed in these two settings?
3) Which ways can improve the reproductive health of WWDs in the two settings?
I am also the principal investigator for the RESPOND project -(Rethinking access and utilization of reproductive healthcare, and domestic violence services among women with disabilities in Uganda). The RESPOND project aims to better understand the impact of disability on access, utilization, and delivery of reproductive healthcare and domestic violence services among Women with Disabilities (WWDs), to inform responses to the needs of women with disabilities in low-income countries. This 4-years project is funded by the Swedish research council (2023-2026). We use mixed-methods, combining quantitative methods were we analyse cross-sectional data and qualitative interviews.
I am also a research leader for the DIS-IPV project. This is a four-year Forte funded project 2019-2023, (extended to December 2024) based at Umeå University. This project seeks to contribute knowledge to improve health and social support available to people with disabilities exposed to intimate-partner violence.
I also contribute to the DISTIME project funded by the Marcus Foundation and the Amalia Wallenberg Memorial Fund. I use Sweden's world-unique population databases to carry out quantitative life course analyses and statistical comparisons over time and space.
Additionally, I also participate DISLIFE projects funded by the European Research Council. Using Sweden's national registers, I investigate the impact of disability on health, education, the labour market transition and family formation.
I defended my dissertation in 2015, my dissertation on the Etiology of for celiac disease during childhood.
In our masters in Public Health I teach:
- Epidemiology in the MPH programme and at PhD level at the department of Epidemiology and Global Health.