Katrine de Angeles
Phd Student
E-mail: katrine.de.angeles@ki.se
Visiting address: Widerströmska huset Tomtebodavägen 18 A, plan 3, 17165 Solna
Postal address: K9 Global folkhälsa, K9 GPH Ekström Kågesten, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- I am a PhD student in the Global Health, HIV and SRHR research group
(GLoSH) [1]within the department of Public Health Sciences [2]at the
Karolinska institutet.
The health of vulnerable groups especially maternal- and child health is my
passion. With an interest in infectious disease epidemiology and health
behaviour I strive to understand how individual and health systems
factors' influence health outcomes, disease spread and health management.
Since 2013 I have been working on HIV-related projects in Europe and East
Africa together with professor Anna Mia Ekström. Currently I am a PhD
student, part of the WelTel [3] research team exploring prevention of
mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in Kenya. My research explores
the impact of an m-health intervention on different aspects of PMTCT through
an RCT design, including retention to care. My research also explores
the implementation of the Kenyan national defaulter tracing programe for
PMTCT at different health facilities in Western Kenya.
As a reseracher I strongly promote the the use of social and behavioral
studies in combination with sound epidemiological data to ensure the creation
of evidence-informed health policies. Policies that promotes health equity
and enables access for all.
In previous years I have been involved in advocay and policy formulation on
sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). I have also worked with
patient-management of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer
for the pharmaceutical industry. In the future I aspire to become a
specialist in disease control and prevention at programme management level
and dedicate myself to the field of social medicine.
* MSc, Infectious Disease control, Södertörns Högskola, 2013
* BA, Political Science and EU, Stockholm University, 2012
[1] http://ki.se/en/phs/global-health-hiv-and-srhr
[2] https://ki.se/en/phs/startpage
[3] https://ki.se/en/phs/weltel-pmtct-project
Teaching
- I am involved in several teachings at Karolinska Institutet, including:
* Course lecturer at HIV kurs - med individen i fokus ur ett globalt
perspektiv [1]
* Seminar teacher at the popular Global Health [2]course.
* Course lecturer at Människokroppens struktur, funktion och dysfunktion
[3]
I have also established a workshop series in Advanced Qualitative Inquiry
[4]at the Karolinska Institute to help researchers and specially PhD
students develop their qualitative research projects.
[1] http://ki.se/utbildning/1qa071-hiv-med-individen-i-fokus-ur-ett-globalt-perspektiv
[2] https://pingpong.ki.se/public/courseId/6007/lang-en/publicPage.do
[3] https://ki.se/selma/syllabus/1BA097/22938
[4] https://ki.se/sites/default/files/2018/08/22/bigh-quality-series.pdf