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.

Latest research and activities

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Interview with Vinod Diwan in 'Dagens Nyheter' about global health

Find an interview with Vinod Diwan, Senior Professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences, in the news paper 'Dagens Nyheter', where Vinod describes the research area global health, its challenges as well as working with Hans Rosling. The article is in Swedish.
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Interview with PHS researchers about reaching the goals of 2030 Agenda

Find an article in the latest issue of ‘Medicinsk vetenskap’ regarding the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals and interviews with Tobias Alfvén, Emilie Agardh and Meena Daivadanam, from the Department of Public Health Sciences.
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25 Apr 2018

New study on using phone application to increase physical activity for people with mobility disabilities

Daniel Berglind, member with the PRIME Health research group, is leading a new study on health outcomes for people with mobility disabilities to test the efficacy of delivering an app-based eHealth program. 
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KI sets up a new centre for tuberculosis research

Tuberculosis is one of the world's most prevalent communicable diseases and now KI sets up a TB centre to contribute to developing better diagnostics, vaccines and treatments among many other things. The centre has been set up by five KI departments, but its administrative base is the Department of Public Health Sciences.

News from the department

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15 Jun 2018 Multidisciplinary research and collaboration to end tuberculosis
27 Apr 2018 Seminar held to launch a new Centre for Tuberculosis Research at KI
25 Apr 2018 New study on using phone application to increase physical activity for people with mobility disabilities Updated
27 Feb 2018 Launch of the Maternal Health Academic Consortium
08 Dec 2017 Nicola Orsini and the Biostatistics team receives grant from EFSA for project on dose-response analysis in health risk assessment
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PHS Calendar

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15 Oct 2018 - 19 Oct 2018
 Seminar: Writing a kappa – organising and telling your own story
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15 Jun 2018 by Ida Rutström. Editor: Ida Rutström.