Camilla Nystrand Länsman

Camilla Nystrand Länsman

Adjunct Lecturer
Visiting address: Tomtebogatan 18a, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C7 Lärande, Informatik, Management och Etik, C7 Hälsoekonomi och Policy Rehnberg Heintz, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I work as a health economist at the Stockholm Centre for Health Economics (StoCHE) at the Centre for Health Economics, Informatics and Health Care Research (CHIS) at Stockholm Region. I am also an adjuct researcher at LIME.


    At StoCHE, I work mainly with health economic evaluations of healthcare 
    interventions, based on inquiries from various actors (clinics, hospitals, NPOs, RPOs, NAGs) in Region Stockholm.

    At KI, I am involved in different research projects, including health economic analyses related to colorectal cancer screening, MS and heart failure. 

    I have previously worked as a health economist at the National Board of  Health and Welfare and have a PhD in health economics from Uppsala University, where I defended my thesis in health economics in 2021. My dissertation examined the value of
    social investments, with a focus on parenting programs. Furthermore, I worked extensively on developing calculation tools for municipalities that can be used to forecast the value of preventive interventions.

Research

  • My research focuses on examining the economic value of different types of
    interventions, mainly in health care but also other sectors where interventions can have 
    an impact on health. I work broadly on issues ranging from primary prevention
    to treatment. What drives me forward in research is the ability to generate 
    evidence that may be valuable for decision makers, and that contributes 
    to the best possible health, for all, based on the limited resources we have
    in society.

Teaching

  • I am currently course coordinator and main lecturer for the course Advanced Health Economics, which is provided within the Master programme in Health Economics, Policy and Management at LIME. 

Selected publications

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Grants

  • Is a digital co-created self-management program to prevent falls in people with multiple sclerosis cost-effective?
    Karolinska Institutet
    1 April 2026 - 31 March 2027
  • Working with mental illness at youth friendly health centers - the perspectives of the staff
    Region Uppsala
    1 January 2026 - 31 December 2026
  • Conditions for Effective Inter-Organisational Collaboration: A Scoping Review of Contextual Factors in Successful Integration between Health and Social Care for Older Adults
    Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
    1 July 2025 - 30 June 2026
  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2025 - 31 December 2027
    Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide and the most resource consuming and costly cancer. Primary and secondary prevention of CRC with screening can reduce deaths from the disease by removal of polyps and detection of cancer at an early curable stage. In a quasi-randomized study design, the Swedish region of Stockholm-Gotland started population-based screening in 2008. 400,000 individuals were invited or not to biennial fecal occult blood testing and were referred to colonoscopy when tested positive. After 14 years of follow-up, the CRC mortality was reduced 14% with invitation to screening. In 2026, 1,65 million people will be included in the program.The overall aim of the project is to build a CRC risk-prediction model to be used in screening practice to individualize continued screening within the program or adenoma surveillance. Together with the outcomes of screening, we will provide potential predictors to the model by analyzing associations of the colon microbiota and the exposure to modifiable and unmodifiable risk factors and CRC development. We will also evaluate the cost-effectiveness of screening regarding healthcare consumption, but also the indirect costs in a societal perspective, and biobank mucosa biopsies and blood samples for future research. Our results will provide evidence to reduce unnecessary screening follow-up while cost-effectively preserve the benefit of CRC risk- and mortality reduction with population-based screening.
  • Working with mental illness at youth friendly centers: patients, staff and international research agenda
    Region Uppsala
    1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025
  • Screening for colorectal cancer with immunological test - consequences of a false positive test
    ALF
    1 January 2025 - 31 December 2027
  • Working with mental illness at youth friendly centers - perspectives of the staff
    Region Uppsala
    1 January 2024 - 31 December 2024
  • Improved detection of physical, mental and sexual problems amongst youth through the use of a digital support system
    Region Uppsala
    1 January 2024 - 31 December 2024
  • Has the pandemic affected follow-up for patients with rheumatoid arthritis? Socioeconomic differences in the relationship between follow-up visits and the patients quality of life and disease
    Swedish Rheumatism Association
    1 January 2024 - 31 December 2025
  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2024 - 31 January 2026
  • Improved detection of physical, mental and sexual health problems amongst youth through the use of a digital support system
    Region Uppsala
    1 January 2023 - 31 December 2023
  • Improved detection of physical, mental and sexual problems amongst youth
    Region Uppsala
    1 January 2022 - 31 December 2022

Employments

  • Health Economist, Centrum för Hälsoekonomi, informatik och sjukvårdsforskning (CHIS), Stockholm Health Care Services, 2022-
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2027
  • Researcher, Health Economics, Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, 2021-2026
  • Health Economist, Analytics department, National Board of Health and Welfare, 2021-2022
  • Research Assistant, Health Economics, Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, 2015-2017

Degrees and Education

  • Web course for doctoral supervisors, Karolinska Institutet, 2026
  • Web course for doctoral supervisors, Karolinska Institutet, 2026
  • Teaching and learning in higher education (GHPD), Karolinska Institutet, 2025
  • Understanding Groups and Leaders (UGL), Swedish Defence University, 2024
  • Health Economics, Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, 2021
  • Master's degree in Economics, Development Economics, Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam, 2015
  • Bachelor's degree in Social Science, Economics and Political Science, University of Cape Town, 2012

Supervision

  • Supervision to doctoral degree

    • Kinza Degerlund-Maldi, 2023-
    • Andersén Mikael, Mental health in Young People and Youth-friendly health services – The DigiYouth Project, 2021-

Committee work

  • Member, Department Board, Uppsala University, 2019-2020
  • Chair, Departmental PhD student organization, Uppsala University, 2019-2020
  • Member, Departmental PhD student organization, Uppsala University, 2017-2019

Thesis evaluation

  • Shiyu Li, Examination board member of halftime evaluation, Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2026

Journal reviewing

  • EPIDEMIOLOGY & INFECTION, Anonymous peer review, 2026
  • BMJ OPEN, Anonymous peer review, 2026
  • PharmacoEconomics - Open, Anonymous peer review, 2026
  • BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, Anonymous peer review, 2026

Conference/event participation

  • Oral presenter of submitted abstract, Swedish Health Economics Association (SHEA) Annual Conference, Derivation and Validation of Charlson, Elixhauser and RxRisk cost-based comorbidity indices: a register-based study of 350, 000 individuals over 11 years, 2026
  • Oral presenter of submitted abstract, European Public Health Assiciation, Health Economics Chapter, The economic burden of colorectal cancer before, during and after diagnosis– a societal perspective, 2025
  • Oral presenter of submitted abstract, Swedish Health Economics Association (SHEA) Annual Conference, The economic burden of colorectal cancer before, during and after diagnosis– a societal perspective, 2025
  • Oral presenter of submitted abstract, International Health Economics Association (iHEA) Annual Congress, The distributional economic impact of introducing an adjuvanted recombinant zoster vaccine into the Swedish universal vaccine program, 2023
  • Oral presenter of submitted abstract, Swedish Health Economics Association (SHEA) Annual Meeting, The distributional economic impact of introducing an adjuvanted recombinant zoster vaccine into the Swedish universal vaccine program, 2023
  • Oral presenter of submitted abstract, 14th Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry, A model to Estimate the Economic Return for Local Authorities – Parent Management Training Interventions for the Prevention of Child Behaviour Problems, 2019
  • Oral presenter of submitted abstract, The 2nd workshop of the Nordic Network for Health Policy, Health Management and Health service Research, Cost-effectiveness of Parenting Interventions for the Reduction of Externalizing Behaviours: A Long Term Approach, 2018
  • Poster presenter of submitted abstract, Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) annual conference, Indicated Parenting Interventions and Labour Market Outcomes: A Health Economic Modeling Study, 2018
  • Poster presenter of submitted abstract, Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) annual conference, Cost-offset analysis of social and emotional learning programs for the prevention of externalizing behaviour problems: an economic modelling study, 2017
  • Poster presenter of submitted abstract, 10th European Public Health Conference, Cost-Utility Analysis of Four Parenting Programs and a Book for the Prevention of Externalizing Behavior Problems: An Economic Modeling Study, 2017
  • Poster presenter of submitted abstract, The International Society of Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP), 2017

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