Hampus Holmer
Affiliated to Research
E-mail: hampus.holmer@ki.se
Visiting address: Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: K9 Global folkhälsa, K9 GPH Alfvén, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- I am a postdoctoral research fellow at Karolinska Institutet interested in
the intersection of global public health, politics, economics and diplomacy.
I am a medical doctor by training and hold a PhD focused on global surgery,
obstetrics and anaesthesia metrics.
I am also a part-time resident in social medicine/public health and am
currently on leave of absence from KI to serve as a special advisor in global
health for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Swedish Research Council International Postdoc Grant, 2020
Fulbright Commission Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2020
Postdoc, Karolinska Institutet, 2020–
Fulbright Commission Visiting Scholar, Duke University, 2020
PhD in Global Health and Surgery, Lund University, 2019
More information about my thesis here: Measuring global surgery, obstetrics
and anaesthesia – from health systems to patients [1]
Licensed Physician, Karolinska University Hospital, 2019
Medical Degree, Lund University, 2017
[1] https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/projects/measuring-global-surgery-obstetrics-and-anaesthesia--from-health-systems-to-patients(61f750a3-31e0-4628-9748-c200d452ce63).html
Research
- *Selected publications*
Implementation of non-communicable disease policies from 2015 to 2020: a
geopolitical analysis of 194 countries. [1]
Allen LN, Wigley S, Holmer H
/Lancet Glob Health 2021 11 - 9(11):e1528-e1538/
Catastrophic expenditure and impoverishment after caesarean section in Sierra
Leone: An evaluation of the free health care initiative. [2]
van Duinen AJ, Westendorp J, Ashley T, Hagander L, Holmer H, Koroma AP,
Leather AJM, Shrime MG, Wibe A, Bolkan HA
/PLoS One 2021 - 16(10):e0258532/
Global surgery, obstetric, and anaesthesia indicator definitions and
reporting: An Utstein consensus report. [3]
Davies JI, Gelb AW, Gore-Booth J, Mellin-Olsen J, Martin J, Åkerman C, Ameh
EA, Biccard BM, Braut GS, Chu KM, Derbew M, Ersdal HL, Guzman JM, Hagander L,
Haylock-Loor C, Holmer H, Johnson W, Juran S, Kassebaum NJ, Laerdal T,
Leather AJM, Lipnick MS, Ljungman D, Makasa EMM, Meara JG, Newton MW,
Østergaard D, Reynolds T, Romanzi LJ, Santhirapala V, Shrime MG, Søreide K,
Steinholt M, Suzuki E, Varallo JE, Visser GHA, Watters D, Weiser TG
/PLoS Med 2021 Aug - 18(8):e1003749/
[The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - an important opportunity to
improve global health]. [4]
Alfvén T, Ekman AT, Awil H, Holmer H, Mia Ekström A, Preet R, Agardh A,
Frielingsdorf Lundqvist H
/Lakartidningen 2020 10 - 117():/
Travel time and perinatal mortality after emergency caesarean sections: an
evaluation of the 2-hour proximity indicator in Sierra Leone. [5]
van Duinen AJ, Adde HA, Fredin O, Holmer H, Hagander L, Koroma AP, Koroma MM,
Leather AJ, Wibe A, Bolkan HA
/BMJ Glob Health 2020 12 - 5(12):/
Global health beyond geographical boundaries: reflections from global health
education. [6]
Herzig van Wees S, Holmer H
/BMJ Glob Health 2020 05 - 5(5):/
The rate and perioperative mortality of caesarean section in Sierra Leone.
[7]
Holmer H, Kamara MM, Bolkan HA, van Duinen A, Conteh S, Forna F, Hailu B,
Hansson SR, Koroma AP, Koroma MM, Liljestrand J, Lonnee H, Sesay S, Hagander
L
/BMJ Glob Health 2019 - 4(5):e001605/
Evaluating the collection, comparability and findings of six global surgery
indicators. [8]
Holmer H, Bekele A, Hagander L, Harrison EM, Kamali P, Ng-Kamstra JS, Khan
MA, Knowlton L, Leather AJM, Marks IH, Meara JG, Shrime MG, Smith M, Søreide
K, Weiser TG, Davies J
/Br J Surg 2019 01 - 106(2):e138-e150/
Cost-effectiveness of club-foot treatment in low-income and middle-income
countries by the Ponseti method. [9]
Grimes CE, Holmer H, Maraka J, Ayana B, Hansen L, Lavy CBD
/BMJ Glob Health 2016 - 1(1):e000023/
Mortality of emergency abdominal surgery in high-, middle- and low-income
countries. [10]
GlobalSurg Collaborative
/Br J Surg 2016 Jul - 103(8):971-988/
Global cancer surgery: delivering safe, affordable, and timely cancer
surgery. [11]
Sullivan R, Alatise OI, Anderson BO, Audisio R, Autier P, Aggarwal A, Balch
C, Brennan MF, Dare A, D'Cruz A, Eggermont AM, Fleming K, Gueye SM, Hagander
L, Herrera CA, Holmer H, Ilbawi AM, Jarnheimer A, Ji JF, Kingham TP, Liberman
J, Leather AJ, Meara JG, Mukhopadhyay S, Murthy SS, Omar S, Parham GP,
Pramesh CS, Riviello R, Rodin D, Santini L, Shrikhande SV, Shrime M, Thomas
R, Tsunoda AT, van de Velde C, Veronesi U, Vijaykumar DK, Watters D, Wang S,
Wu YL, Zeiton M, Purushotham A
/Lancet Oncol 2015 Sep - 16(11):1193-224/
Global distribution of surgeons, anaesthesiologists, and obstetricians. [12]
Holmer H, Lantz A, Kunjumen T, Finlayson S, Hoyler M, Siyam A, Montenegro H,
Kelley ET, Campbell J, Cherian MN, Hagander L
/Lancet Glob Health 2015 Apr - 3 Suppl 2():S9-11/
The global met need for emergency obstetric care: a systematic review. [13]
Holmer H, Oyerinde K, Meara JG, Gillies R, Liljestrand J, Hagander L
/BJOG 2015 Jan - 122(2):183-9/
Global health education in Swedish medical schools. [14]
Ehn S, Agardh A, Holmer H, Krantz G, Hagander L
/Scand J Public Health 2015 Nov - 43(7):687-93/
Determining universal processes related to best outcome in emergency
abdominal surgery: a multicentre, international, prospective cohort study.
[15]
Bhangu A, Fitzgerald JE, Fergusson S, Khatri C, Holmer H, Søreide K,
Harrison EM
/BMJ Open 2014 Oct - 4(10):e006239/
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34678197
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34653191
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34415914
[4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33051860
[5] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33355267
[6] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32381655
[7] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31565407
[8] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30570764
[9] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28588918
[10] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27145169
[11] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26427363
[12] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25926323
[13] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25546039
[14] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26142351
[15] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25354824
Teaching
- I have been engaged in the undergraduate global health course [1] at KI since
2019, initially as an accompanying teacher in Laos and Tanzania and later as
course leader in 2020.
[1] https://education.ki.se/course-syllabus/3GB000
Articles
- Article: THE LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH. 2023;11(4):e525-e533
- Article: SOCIAL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE. 2022;297:114825
- Article: BMJ OPEN. 2022;12(2):e052972
- Article: GLOBAL HEALTH, SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 2021;9(4):905-914
- Article: THE LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH. 2021;9(11):e1528-e1538
- Article: PLOS MEDICINE. 2021;18(8):e1003749
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2021;16(10):e0258532
- Article: BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH. 2020;5(12):e003943
- Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2020;117:20037
- Article: SURGERY. 2020;168(3):550-557
- Article: JOURNAL OF SURGICAL EDUCATION. 2019;76(2):469-479
- Article: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA. 2019;66(2):218-229
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY. 2019;106(2):e138-e150
- Article: BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH. 2019;4(5):e001605
- Article: BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH. 2016;3(6):e000023
- Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2015;43(7):687-693
- Article: THE LANCET ONCOLOGY. 2015;16(11):1193-1224
- Article: BMJ OPEN. 2014;4(10):e006239
All other publications
- Review: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT. 2024;13:7989
- Editorial comment: BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH. 2020;5(5):e002583
- Letter: THE LANCET. 2015;386(10007):1942
- Meeting abstract: THE LANCET. 2015;385:S40-40
- Letter: THE LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH. 2015;3:S9-11
- Letter: THE LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH. 2015;3:S11-S12
- Review: BJOG: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY. 2015;122(2):183-189
- Editorial comment: TROPICAL DOCTOR. 2014;44(4):189
- Letter: WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY. 2014;38(10):2738-2739
- Letter: WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY. 2014;38(5):1243-1244
Employments
- Affiliated to Research, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-2025
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2020-2024