Community nutrition and physical activity (CoNPA) – Liselotte Schäfer Elinder's research group

Research areas

Our research covers population surveys and multilevel and mixed-methods health promotion research regarding dietary habits and physical activity with a universal or targeted approach. Our projects are carried out in settings such as child health care, schools and in settings for adults with disabilities.  

We perform: 

• Epidemiological studies of dietary habits and physical activity and their determinants, in relation to health outcomes. 
• Interdisciplinary research on the development, implementation and evaluation including cost-effectiveness of interventions to promote health and prevent obesity and chronic diseases globally including Sweden, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Tanzania   
• Commissioned assignments from external partners within the groups research competence. 

The group members participate in third-level education at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level in the areas of public health nutrition and physical activity, intervention and implementation research, global health and health economics.  

Liselotte Schäfer Elinder is the course leader and lecturer for the course: Theories and methods in implementation and evaluation in the master program for public health/health promotion at KI (7 ECTS).  

Kristi Sidney Annerstedt is the course leader and lecturer for the course: Global Health Economics given to doctoral students at KI (3 ECTS).  

MISTRA Sustainable consumption: The biggest research programme in Sweden on sustainable consumption 

Today it is relatively widely known that consumption in countries such as Sweden is not sustainable. A great deal of the environmental impact of Swedish consumption takes place abroad, in the countries where the goods are produced. At the same time, there is a shortage of research into what sustainable consumption really means and how we can convert towards this – as individuals, as companies, through civil society organisations and through politics. The goal of the research programme MISTRA Sustainable Consumption – from niche to mainstream is to contribute to the transition by means of increased knowledge of how sustainable consumption, which is at present practised by a few, can be scaled up and become more common. The focus is on the areas of food, holidays and home furnishings and fittings.

Read more about the research programme MISTRA  Sustainable Consumption.