Jhon Álvarez Ahlgren

Jhon Álvarez Ahlgren

Administrative Officer | PhD candidate
Telephone: +46852486270
Mobile phone: +46701628864
Visiting address: Nobels väg 15A, 17165 Solna
Postal address: GVS Gemensamt verksamhetsstöd, GVS FER Grants Office, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am a 3rd year 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/

Research

  • 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

Teaching

  • 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.

Articles

All other publications

  • Review: BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. 2021;99(9):640-652E
    Yaria J; Gil A; Makanjuola A; Oguntoye R; Miranda JJ; Lazo-Porras M; Zhang P; Tao X; Ahlgren JÁ; Bernabe-Ortiz A; Moscoso-Porras M; Malaga G; Svyato I; Osundina M; Gianella C; Bello O; Lawal A; Temitope A; Adebayo O; Lakkhanaloet M; Brainin M; Johnson W; Thrift AG; Phromjai J; Mueller-Stierlin AS; Perone SA; Varghese C; Feigin V; Owolabi MO; Stroke Experts Collaboration Group
  • Editorial: BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH. 2019;4(3):e001746
    Storeng KT; Abimbola S; Balabanova D; Mccoy D; Ridde V; Filippi V; Roalkvam S; Akello G; Parker M; Palmer J; Abejirinde I; Abimbola S; Adebiyi B; Affun-Adegbulu C; Ahlgren JA; Ahmad A; Akello G; Al-Awlaqi S; Aloys Z; Amul GG; Arthur J; Asaduzzaman M; Asgedom AA; Assarag B; Atchessi N; Atkins S; Badejo O; Baeroe K; Molleh B; Balabanova D; Bazzano A; Behague DP; Beisel U; Belaid L; Bernays S; Bhuiyan S; Biermann O; Birungi H; Blanchet K; Blystad A; Bodson O; Bonnet E; Bose S; Bozorgmehr K; Brear M; Burgess R; Byskov J; Carillon S; Cavallaro FL; Chabeda S; Chandler C; Chapman R; Chikuse FF; Chinwe JI; Cislaghi B; Closser S; Colvin CJ; Cresswell J; da Cunha Saddi F; Daire J; Dalglish S; de Brouwere V; de Sardan J-PO; Delvaux T; Desgrees du Lou A; Diallo BA; Diarra A; Dixon J; Doherty T; Dumont A; Eboreime E; Engelbrecht B; Erikson S; Faye A; Filippi V; Fischer S; Fournet F; Fox AM; Francis JM; Gautier L; George A; Gilson L; Gimbel S; Glenn J; Gopinathan U; Gordeev VS; Gradmann C; Graham JE; Gram L; Greco G; Grepin K; Guichard A; Gupta PT; Guzman V; Haaland MES; Haggblom A; Hagopian A; Hammarberg K; Handschumacher P; Hann K; Hasselberg M; Hawkes S; Howard N; Hurtig A-K; Hussain S; Hutchinson E; Idoteyin E; Infanti JJ; Irwin R; Islam S; Joarder T; John P; Johnson E; Johri M; Justice J; Kabore C; Kadio K; Kamwa M; Kelly AH; Kenworthy N; Kittelsen S; Kloster MO; Kocsis E; Koon A; Kumar P; Lal A; Lange I; Lanthorn H; Lees S; Lexchin J; Lie AL; Limenih G; Litwin-Davies I; Lodda CC; Lonnroth K; Manton J; Manzi A; Manzoor M; Marchal B; Marten R; Matsui M; Mbewe A; Mc Sween-Cadieux E; McGoey L; McNeill D; Mendenhall E; Mendez CA; Mirzoev T; Mohammed S; Moland KM; Molyneux S; Mumtaz Z; Murray SF; Nambiar D; Nelson E; Nieto-Sanchez C; Norheim OF; Nouvet E; Obare F; Okungu V; Onarheim KH; Ostebo MT; Ouattara F; Ozawa S; Pai M; Paina L; Palmer J; Parashar R; Parker M; Paul E; Peeters K; Pennetier C; Penn-Kekana L; Peters D; Pfeiffer J; Pot H; Prashanth NS; Preston R; Puyvallee ADB; Rahmalia A; Reid-Henry S; Ridde V; Roalkvam S; Rodriguez DC; Ronse M; Sacks E; Samb OM; Sanders D; Sarkar N; Sarriot E; Scheel IB; Schwarz T; Scott K; Seeley J; Seward N; Shannon G; Shearer J; Shelley K; Sherr K; Shiffman J; Simard F; Singh NS; Soors W; Springer RA; Storeng KT; Strong A; Sundby J; Taylor S; Tetui M; Topp SM; Tsofa B; Turcotte-Tremblay A-M; Undie C-C; Van Belle S; Van Heteren G; van Rensburg AJ; Sriram V; Venkatapuram S; Wagenaar BH; Wallace L; Walugembe DR; Wariri O; Whiteside AOBE; Yakob B; Zakayo S; Zitti T; Zwi A

Employments

  • Administrative Officer, Professional Services, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-
  • Administrative Officer, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2026-2027
  • Administrative Officer, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2026
  • PhD candidate, Implementation science, obesity prevention, public health interventions, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2024

Degrees and Education

  • Master in Public Health, Disasters and Humanitarian interventions, Karolinska Institutet, 2016
  • Degree in Dental Sciences, DDS, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela, 2012

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