Vanja Berggren

Vanja Berggren

Senior Lecturer | Docent
Telephone: +46852483606
Visiting address: Alfred Nobels Allé 23, D2, Flemingsberg, 14183 Huddinge
Postal address: H1 Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, H1 Omvårdnad Omv enhet 1, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

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  • Associate Professor Vanja has a background in Nursing (RN) and Public Health (MPH) with PhD in Global Health (from Sudan) at Karolinska Institutet (2005). Vanja holds since 2019 a position as senior lecturer at the division of Caring, at the Department of Neurobiology, Caring Science and Society (NVS) at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Vanja has experience of working at the Public Health Agency of Sweden (2022). She has previous experiences of long-term international collaborations both in research and in students- and teaching exchange (ex. Linneus-Palme) as example with universities in Jordan, Uganda, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria and Thailand in the wide scope of Global health including environmental health, and in nursing of cause. More specific focus is youth and women's health and is Sexual and reproductive health and rights, that she also run courses in at the division of Nursing (NVS). In the research projects and in the research team/network United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are present. Vanja has published more than 60 scientific articles and chapters to 12 books. 

  • Vanja co-ordinates a multidisciplinary research network: Global health and Sustainable Development, at/: https://ki.se/en/nvs/global-health-global-nursing-and-sustainable-development

Research

  • *Examples of current research projects*
    * Maternal health in South Africa and in Sweden. A collaboration on health
    seeing behavious in Limpopo District as part of the South African - Sweden
    University Forum (SASUF)
    * Women, Migration and health. Collaboration with Durban University of
    Technology, also part of the South Africa Sweden University Forum (SASUF)
    * Health system and maternal health - capacity building collaboration with
    Limpopo University in South Africa (SAMRC-Forte)
    * Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation after immigration to Sweden. A
    National Research Network. (Forte)

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Employments

  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2019-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2019
  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2005

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