Elin Larsson

Associate professor and a principle researcher in global sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), the vice research group leader and a team leader in the Global and Sexual Health research group (GLoSH) at the Department of Global Public Health, and affiliated to the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health. 

Post doc positions:

• Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University (2016-2018)
• Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet (2014-2016)

Vinnvård Fellowship (2016-2019)
Associate Professor in Global Health, Uppsala University (2019)
Pharmacist (MSc), Uppsala University (2006)
PhD in Medical Science, Dept. of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet. Thesis title: “Missed opportunities prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Uganda” (2012)

My research focus on migrants and SRHR as well as contraception and abortion, HPV vaccination and prevention, both in low- and middle-income contexts, and in Sweden and Europe. I'm using co-design methods to improve SRHR care in Sweden and Sub-Saharan Africa.  I  supervise doctoral students in Sweden and in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia.As part of my engagement in reseach and education within SRHR I am part of the management committee of the Academic Network for SRHR Policy (ANSER).

The core of my teaching is in sexual and reproductive health and rights from a global health perspective, supervision of doctoral and master students as well as research methods. I am the course leader for the course "Collecting and organizing epidemiological data" (7.5 ECT credits, code: 4FH084).

My teaching includes lectures and seminars at undergraduate and graduate courses (masters and PhD). When teaching I have used “traditional”
lecturing, workshops, seminars, blended learning including e-learning. Ihave initiated a doctoral course in SRHR, a joint course within the ANSER
Network