At the Department of Public Health Sciences, we conduct research, teaching and applied work based on public health science and epidemiology. The department has 9 research groups, about 80 doctoral students and 150 employees.

Research groups at PHS

All research groups and group leaders at the Department of Public Health Sciences, in the areas in global health, public health epidemiology and social medicine.

Doctoral education at PHS

Registered doctoral student at PHS or want to study at doctoral level? Find more about admission, information for current doctoral students and contact. 

Meet researchers at our department

Some of the researchers working at PHS describes their research, what inspires them and how it is to work at the Department of Public Health Sciences.

Our latest research and activities

18 Apr 2018

Study on fever in children in Africa may change global guidelines

Children in sub-Saharan Africa with uncomplicated fever may be safely managed with conditional, rather than universal, 3-day follow-up with a community health worker, according to a randomised trial by researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in PLOS Medicine. The...

 
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Conference on Global Health gathers researchers and students from the country’s institutes of higher learning

Sustainable development and global health is receiving a great deal of attention at Karolinska Institutet this week. Now, it is time to stop talking and start acting, states Tobias Alfvén, one of the organizers behind The Swedish Global Health Research Conference 2018, being held on April 18-19.
18 Apr 2018

The Swedish Global Health Research Conference 2018

We invite you to take part in the Swedish Global Health Research Conference: How can Sweden contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals? From Research to Action, 18-19 April, at Aula Medica, hosted by the Department of Public Health Sciences. 

The 6th Annual KI-India Seminar

Karolinska Institutet and Centre for Global Health in collaboration with the Academic Coordinator for India, prof. Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, are pleased to announce that the 6th Annual KI-India Seminar will take place on March 22nd 2018, 13.00 – 17.00 at Karolina hall, Widerströmska huset.

PHS Calendar

Datum Event
04 May 2018 Doctoral thesis defence: Sara Wallhed Finn
04 May 2018 Licentiate seminar: Eleonor Säfsten
08 May 2018 PHSP seminar: Population aging and health
17 May 2018 Admission seminar
18 May 2018 Stockholm Public Health Lectures: ”The Obesogenic Environment”
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Latest job opportunities

Position Submission Deadline
Professor of medical technology with focus on digital diagnostics 23 Apr 2018
Doctoral (PhD) student position in global health with focus on antibiotics in the environment 27 Apr 2018
Chefsassistent 04 May 2018

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18 Apr 2018 by Ida Rutström. Editor: Ida Rutström.