Nina Viberg

Nina Viberg is an Associate Professor at the Department 
of Global Public Health and the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable
Health. She has coordinated the project "Building capacity for sustainable 
development in fragile states" which is a collaboration between KI, Makerere
University in Kampala, Uganda, Benadir University in Mogadishu, Somalia, and
University of Kinshasa, School of Public Health in the Democratic Republic of
Congo. Nina coordinates a global health diplomacy network and leads the collaboration

project "Health Bridge - Towards a healthier and safer region - Bridging the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe in a health diplomacy network".  

With innovative pedagogical approaches and expertise in health systems, policy, sustainable health and global health she strives to enrich the curriculum and student engagement to equip the students with an understanding of health systems and policy in practice. She has developed three new courses in sustainable health at KI which she also leads. The courses are at undergraduate, master and doctoral level and are the first ever courses on sustainable health at KI. 

Nina a licensed pharmacist and holds a PhD from Karolinska Institutet
(2009). She has extensive experience from the area of health policy and
governance as well as evidence-based policy making and implementation of
evidence based practice. In 2021 Nina returned to academia and KI after
having served at different levels of the Swedish health system including, the
Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR), The Swedish
Agency for Health and Care Services Analysis, A governmental investigation
about implementation of national guidelines in health care, and the Ministry
of Health. At the Ministry, Nina had the position of National Focal Point
for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and of coordinator within the government
offices of matters regarding vaccines against Covid-19.
Licensed Pharmacist, Uppsala University, 2003
PhD in Medical Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, 2009
PostDoc in Medical Sciences, Lund University, 2013 - 2017