Emma Brulin

Emma Brulin

Assistant Professor | Docent
Visiting address: Nobels väg 13, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: C6 Institutet för miljömedicin, C6 Arbetsmedicin Brulin, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Associate Professor (Docent) in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Doctor of Health Sciences. Defended my thesis 'The Juggle and Struggle of Everyday Life. Gender, division of work, and work-family perceptions in different policy contexts' 2016 at Mid Sweden University.

    I conduct research on physical and psychosocial risk factors in the work environment, symptom development of stress-related diseases and
    rehabilitation for return to work in case of sick leave for burnout.

Research

  • My research focuses on physical and psychosocial risk factors in the work environment, symptom development of stress-related diseases and rehabilitation for return to work in case of sick leave for burnout.

    Ongoing projects:
    /Towards a Sustainable Healthcare: A Longitudinal Study Linking Healthcare Professionals' Working Conditions, Health and Patient Safety/
    Grant: The Swedish Research Council 2022-00806
    This project aims to 1) investigate healthcare professionals’ working conditions and health over time and identify occupational risk factors, 2) link healthcare professionals’ working conditions and burnout with patient safety, and 3) explore the long- and short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare professionals’ working conditions and health and patient safety.

    /Harmful use of alcohol and drugs among healthcare personnel in Sweden: prevalence, co-morbidity, risk factors in the work environment and effects on patient work/
    Grant: Afa Försäkring 220177
    The aim is to explore the links between mental health and harmful use, to identify factors in working life that may contribute to harmful use, and to
    investigate the effects on patient care.

    /Night work, working hours and common mental disorders - Risk factors and early detection for prevention/
    Grant: FORTE (2021-00386)
    The aim is to explore the relation between shift work (especially night work), long working hours and CMDs, as well as the interaction with psychosocial work environment. The goal is to show that routinely collected data can be used to a) identify risk factors for CMD, b) identify workplaces with high risk of sickness absence and c) give the employer recommendations on how to design healthy schedules.

    /Healthy Physician - prevalence of common mental disorders (CMD) among Swedish physicians, its antecedents and consequences./
    Grant: FORTE (2019-00311) and Region Stockholm
    The overall purpose of the project is to 1) identify the prevalence and experience of CMD among Swedish physicians, 2) explore factors contributing
    to CMD and 3) study the societal consequences related to physicians’ CMD. We are currently conducting a study about physicians' experiences of working through the Covid-19 pandemic.

    /Inequalities in health – a longitudinal study of the impact of conflict between working and private life for sickness absence in the Swedish working
    population/
    The aim of the project Inequalities in health is to study the impact of conflicting demands and enriching effects between working life and private
    life on inequalities in health in the Swedish working population. This will be done using the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health (SLOSH) and Swedish population registers (LISA and MiDAS).

Teaching

  • I have a long experience in teaching, leading and developing courses and supervising students in the fields of work and health, public health and
    nursing. I am the deputy program director for the master's program Work and Health.

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Employments

  • Assistant Professor, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2021-2025

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2021

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