Senior Professor in Epidemiology and Family Medicine.
Was 1985-2007 the coordinator of development and countrywide implementation of one of the world's largest ongoing population-based intervention program for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes, the Västerbotten Intervention Program (VIP). Research on analysis of the role of primary care in population-oriented prevention and supervised a number of PhD students both from Sweden, the US, Indonesia and Vietnam.