Susanne Rautiainen Lagerström

Susanne Rautiainen Lagerström

Research Specialist
Visiting address: Maria Aspmans gata 30A, 17164 Solna
Postal address: K2 Medicin, Solna, K2 KEP Stephansson, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am a researcher at the Global and Sexual Health (GloSH) Research Group and
    research fellow at the Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's
    Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA.
    I have research experience in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and clinical-
    and lifestyle-related risk factors from small- and large-scale clinical
    trials and obsevational studies gained from my PhD training at Karolinska
    Institutet and 4-year postdoc at Harvard Medical School.
    My main research goal is to identify new strategies to tackle
    malnutrition, infectious, and NCDs in low- and middle-income countries.
    2014: Funding from the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska
    Institutet to develop a PhD course in Nutritional Epidemiology.
    2014: American Society for Nutrition’s Advances and Controversies in
    Clinical Nutrition. Abstract selected for Travel Award.
    2013: 36-month COFAS 2 Marie Curie fellowship for postdoctoral training at
    Harvard Medical School, Boston USA and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
    Sweden.
    2013: Travel award from FORTE for AHA Epi/Lifestyle in New Orleans, LA
  • USA,
    2013.
    2011: 12-month postdoc award from FORTE to support postdoctoral training at
    Harvard Medical School, Boston USA.
    2007: Four year PhD award from the Karolinska Institutet (KID).
    2006: Travel award from Anders Otto Swärds stiftelse for training in the
    ORAC assay at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock,
    AR, USA.
    * 2012: PhD degree (June 15, 2012) in Medical Science, Department of
    Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Title of the thesis: Antioxidants from Diet and Supplements in Relation to
    Cardiovascular Disease. Advisors: Prof. Alicja Wolk and Prof. Ralf
    Morgenstern, IMM, Karolinska Institutet.
    * 2006: MSc in Nutrition, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet,
    Stockholm, Sweden. Title of the thesis: Total Antioxidant Capacity of diet
    among Swedish Women. Supervisor: Prof. Alicja Wolk, IMM, Karolinska
    Institutet.
    * 2005: BSc in Nutrition, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet,
    Stockholm, Sweden. Title of the thesis: Estrogen Receptor-Beta as a new
    pharmaceutical target treating Leukemia. Supervisor: Margaret Warner, PhD,
    Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet.

Research

  • *Current project:*
    * The open population-based Rakai Community Cohort in Uganda: Understand the
    interplay between nutrition and microbiome in NCDs and infectious
    diseases
    * WelTel study: Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT), HIV/AIDS
    care in Kenya - mobile phone intervention
    * The COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) trial
    http://www.cosmostrial.org [1]
    * Physicians' Health Study (PHS) II
    * the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL
    (VITAL)-HT trial https://www.vitalstudy.org/index.html [2]
    * Aterenon trial: Testing lycopene supplementation on changes in key
    cardiovascular biomarkers
    [1] https://www.cosmostrial.org
    [2] https://www.vitalstudy.org/index.html

Teaching

  • * Course cooridnator: NCD, Non-Communicable Diseases, Injuries, Natural
    Emergencies and Conflicts in a Global Health Perspective
    * BSc courses - “Nutrition and nutritional status” and “Nutritional
    Epidemiology” - at the Nutrition Program, Karolinska Institutet.
    * BSc courses - “Nutritional Epidemiology” - at the Nutrition Program,
    Karolinska Institutet. Topic: Randomized Clinical Trials.
    * MSc course - “Epidemiology” - at the Program of Toxicology, Karolinska
    Institutet: Topic: Different study designs.

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Employments

  • Research Specialist, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2024
  • Research Specialist, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2024

Degrees and Education

  • Degree Of Master Of Science In Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2022
  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2012

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