Global health professional with a dentistry and dental public health background. At UMU, oversee the EU-funded research grants, consortium coordination, and translation of evidence into action.
I am a global health professional with more than 25 years of experience spanning clinical dentistry, dental public health, public health, global health education, scientific research coordination, research project management, and diversity and equity advocacy.
Since 2009, I have been based at Umeå University, where I work in various capacities. In 2012, I took the responsibility for the coordination and management of European Union-funded R&I collaborative grants, having completed many projects over the years. I specialize in coordinating EU-funded large-scale transnational health research grants, managing the full grant life cycle from pre-award development to post-award implementation and compliance. I am currently facilitating the HORIZON Europe grant, IDAlert, and EU Climate-Health Cluster. As I see, genuine implementation, adaptive communication, and multisectoral collaboration are key for multidisciplinary research and innovation, where authentic relational coordination weaves the long-term high impact.
Alongside research coordination, I have consistently championed integrating oral health into broader health systems, promoting non-communicable disease prevention, and advancing inclusive, equitable practices.
My work bridges research groups and communities across the global North and South, where I advise on governance, accountability, and evidence translation. I have a strong track record of communicating research findings to diverse audiences—including policymakers, practitioners, and local communities—to support informed decision-making.
Having moved across continents for life, work, and study, cross-cultural capability and contextual adaptability have been instrumental for continuous learning and self-development.
I am responsible for the course Leading Change and Development in Welfare Organisations (LCD), which has a strong emphasis on public health practice. This is a compulsory 4 ECTS course delivered in the second year of the Master of Public Health programme. The course is designed as two weeks long, interactive learning experience with students, enabling deep, critical, and reflective learning. Such engagement is essential to achieving the course learning outcomes.
As one of the final courses in the MPH programme, LCD is positioned to support students with diverse backgrounds in transitioning from learners to emerging public health leaders. Students are encouraged to engage with the course content from a position of authority, accountability, and responsibility, critically examining their own leadership identities while developing the competencies required to lead change and development in complex welfare and public health systems. Engagement in the course, therefore, explicitly challenges students to locate themselves as leaders within public health systems, exercising judgement, ethical responsibility, and agency in navigating and shaping organisational and societal change.