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

  • 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 skills in co-ordination in different contexts. She has experience of being part of several govert missions (Sweden) in childrens's health/women's health related issues, and she had a lomnger mission in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the Public Health Agency of Sweden (2022). She has previous and on-going experiences of long-term international collaborations both in research and in students- and teaching exchange (ex. Linneus-Palme and ERASMUS/UKÄ) 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.

       Vanja has a broad scope when it comes to teaching, and she co-ordinate courses at present at the division of Nursing at NVS/KI in scientific methods and primary health/public health.

       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 in international journals and chapters  (incl. two editorshio) in 12 books. 

       Vanja co-ordinates (since 2019) 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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