Kristi Sidney Annerstedt

Dr. Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, PhD, is an Associate Professor in global health with a focus on health promotion and health equity. Her research areas are interconnected and include:

1. Complex Behavior Change Interventions: Developing and evaluating interventions aimed at promoting healthy behaviors and preventing diseases.
2. Social Protection Programs: Designing and assessing programs that protect against financial hardships, particularly in low- and middle-income settings.
3. Innovative Costing Methodologies: Using implementation science methodologies to innovate economic evaluations, including costing, cost-utility, and cost-effectiveness analysis.

Dr. Annerstedt's expertise includes developing and evaluating complex interventions, economic evaluations and qualitative methodologies. She is an experienced mixed methods researcher with strong skills in epidemiological study design, process evaluations, and intervention acceptability. Her work is dedicated to promoting health and achieving health equity through innovative and evidence-based approaches.

Current Research Projects:

Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Prevention:

• Changemaker (Promoting co-designed sustainable health interventions with young Changemakers for reduced risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in urban Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Tanzania): Aims to implement a sustainable health intervention program targeting adolescent obesity and related NCDs
• Scaling up The Healthy School Start Program (En Frisk Skolstart) in Sweden to prevent childhood obesity.
• Co-fam 
• (A novel partnership model (Co-fam) for health promotion and early prevention of obesity – co-design and evaluation of family support for school and primary health care)

Maternal Health:

• ALERT 
• (Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal morTality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa): Focuses on reducing perinatal mortality and morbidity through evidence-based interventions.
• QUALI-DEC 
• (Appropriate use of Caesarean section through QUALIty DECision-making by women and providers): Aims to improve decision-making around caesarean sections to ensure appropriate use.

Tuberculosis (TB):

• ASPECT (Assessing Social Protection in Vietnam to End catastrophic Costs in Tuberculosis): Aims to develop and test a tool (TB-PROTECT) that helps identify and support TB-affected families in need of financial assistance,
• UPLIFT: 
• Evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of a psycho-socioeconomic intervention for people with TB in Vietnam

Previous projects:

• SS – Vietnam:  
• Social support for people with TB in Vietnam: comparison of the acceptability of social health insurance and cash transfers
• IMPACT-TB: Implementing community-based active TB case finding interventions in Nepal and Vietnam.
• ExaCT TB: Designing social protection interventions to support TB diagnostic evaluation in Uganda.
• SMART2D: Addressing gaps in the care and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Sweden, Uganda, and South Africa.
• MATIND: Evaluate two innovative large-scale government programme to promote childbirth in hospitals in India

Dr. Annerstedt enjoys teaching global health to doctoral students, MSc students and other departments at KI. She also teaches about social protection and social consequences of ill health. She is a course leader for Global Health Economics for doctoral students. She also teaches qualitative research methodologies in the different master's programs at GPH and LIME departments.