About the Department of Global Public Health
Organisation description, administration unit as well as contact information to the Department of Global Public Health.
Research group leaders
All group leaders and research groups at our department.
All employees and affiliated A-Ö
All employees and affiliated at GPH.
About the Department of Global Public Health
The Department of Global Public Health is a multidisciplinary department with the aim to advance knowledge about challenges and opportunities for public health in a local, national, and global setting. The department has 12 research groups, about 80 doctoral students and around 140 employees.
Researchers and students at the department
Doctoral students about their research and Agenda 2030
Anders Klingberg, Juliet Aweko and Patricia Eustachio Colombo describes their research projects and how it relates to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The sustainable developement goals are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 for the year 2030.
Meet researchers at the department
Some of the researchers working in our department describe their research, what inspires them, and what it is like to work at the Department of Global Public Health.
Research expertise and aim
Our researchers have expertise in Global Health, Social Medicine and Public Health Epidemiology. A broad range of research methods is utilised, both quantitative and qualitative, and often in combination.
Our research aims to promote equitable and sustainable population health by producing new knowledge to aid the planning, implementation and evaluation of health systems and public health practice. We contribute to evidence-based guidance and recommendations by generating new knowledge of the impact of societal structures, health systems, organisations, and individual health behaviours on health, as well as by highlighting priority areas for public health interventions.
We emphasise both individual approaches and population-level policies to health promotion and prevention. Epidemiology is used to study health outcomes and their determinants by time, place and socioeconomic group. It is also used to investigate determinants of high-priority health outcomes, and to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of health-promoting and preventive interventions.
Our focus is on those at greatest risk of poor health and the social and economic consequences of disease. We strive towards equitable access to health and health care services for all.