Department of Global Public Health
The Department of Global Public Health is a multidisciplinary department with the aim to advance knowledge about challenges and opportunities for public health in a local, national, and global setting. The department has 9 research groups, about 80 doctoral students and around 140 employees. Before 1 December 2019 the department was named the Department of Public Health Sciences (PHS).
Research groups
All research groups and group leaders at the Department of Global Public Health, in areas such as global health, public health epidemiology and social medicine.
Doctoral education at the Department of Global Public Health
Registered PhD (doctoral) student at GPH or interested in studies at doctoral level? Find more about admission, information for current doctoral students and contact.
Latest research and activities
Maike Winters discusses ways to communicate during a pandemic
Maike Winters discusses ways to communicate during a pandemic
Maike Winters, research coordinator at the Department of Global Public Health, discusses the best ways to communicate with the general public during a pandemic in the latest episode of KI's podcast Medicinvetarna.
Maike Winters starts talking at 00:03:10 in the podcast.
Doctoral students about their research and Agenda 2030
Anders Klingberg, Juliet Aweko and Patricia Eustachio Colombo describes their research projects and how it relates to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 for the year 2030.