Jhon Álvarez Ahlgren

I am a PhD student at the Department of Global Public Health, within the Community Nutrition and Physical Activity research group [1].

I work part-time as Compliance Coordinator for EU-funded research projects at the Grants Management Office [2] and I coordinate the research network KI Lifestyle4Health [3].

Previous experience:
I have a background in Dentistry and I hold a Master Degree in Public Health in Disasters and low-resource settings. I worked in clinical dentistry for more than 3 years in the public sector and participated in a number of health outreaches to isolated and indigenous communities with limited access to healthcare. I have worked with rural communities in the Andes mountains, the Amazon and other low-resource settings in Venezuela.

I worked for 3 years in a research implementation project on non-communicable disease prevention funded by the European Commission - SMART2D [4-5].

In 2020 I served as a Research Consultant with the Ignorance Hunting Team at Gapminder Foundation [6]. Gapminder was started by the late Professor Hans Rosling, his son Ola Rosling and daughter in law Anna Rönnlund Rosling to "Fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview that everyone can understand"

Education
- Degree in Dental Sciences
- Master degree in Public Health in Disasters and low-resource settings

Academic honours, awards and prizes
- Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Award for the Master Program in Public Health in Disasters and low-resource settings

[1] https://ki.se/en/gph/community-nutrition-and-physical-activity-conpa-0
[2] https://staff.ki.se/gmo-grants-management-office
[3] https://ki.se/en/research/ki-lifestyle4health
[4] https://ki.se/en/gph/smart2d

[5] https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/643692
[6] https://www.gapminder.org/

My research focuses on the scalability, social health-determinants, cost effectiveness and evaluation of implementations strategies of a school-based
intervention for obesity prevention in children through parental support. My PhD project is nested in the IMPROVE study [1]

[1] https://ki.se/gph/om-forskningsstudien-improve

I am passionate about teaching and sharing knowledge. During my Master studies I was deeply inspired by outstanding teachers in global health, such as Professor Hans Rosling. I strive to transmit knowledge in an easy and understandable way for all possible audiences.

I teach on the following topics:

- Basic concepts in Global Health: determinants, disease burden and data tools.
- Scalability of public health interventions.
- Oral health - Global challenges and the Sustainable Development Goals.