Kristi Sidney Annerstedt

Dr. Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, PhD is an Associate Professor in global health with three interconnected research areas

She is currently working on two implementation projects funded by the EU on maternal health: *ALERT* [1](Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal morTality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa) and *QUALI-DEC* (Appropriate use of Caesarean section through QUALIty DECision-making by women and providers). She works with the health economic evaluations, developing the theory of change and supporting the process evaluation. She worked on the *IMPACT-TB* [2] project (implementing proven community-based active tuberculosis case finding interventions) in Nepal and Vietnam and with *ExaCT TB *in Uganda on designing an appropriate social protection intervention to support the diagnostic evaluation of TB. She supports the further development of the Social Protection Action Research Knowledge Sharing (*SPARKS* [3]) network as a platform for dissemination and policy translation of research findings from the social protection related work. She recently worked with the *SMART2D * [4] project to address the gaps in the care and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Sweden, Uganda and South Africa. She also works with the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases on elucidating the role of context and theories of change in non-communicable disease (NCDs) implementation research as well as standardizing variables used in diabetes research.
[1] https://ki.se/en/gph/the-alert-intervention-research-project
[2] https://impacttbproject.org/
[3] https://sparksnetwork.ki.se/
[4] https://ki.se/en/gph/smart2d

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.