Elin Larsson

Associate professor and a principle researcher in global sexual and  reproductive health and rights (SRHR), the vice research group leader and a team leader. in the Global and Sexual Health research group  at the Department of Global Public Health, and affiliated to the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health. 

Post doc positions

• Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University (2016-2018)
• Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet (2014-2016)

Vinnvård Fellowship (2016-2019)
Associate Professor in Global Health, Uppsala University (2019)
Pharmacist (MSc), Uppsala University (2006)
PhD in Medical Science, Dept. of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet. Thesis title: “Missed opportunities prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Uganda” (2012)

My research focus on migrants and SRHR as well as contraception and abortion, HPV vaccination and prevention, both in low- and middle-income contexts, and in Sweden and Europe. I'm using co-design methods to improve SRHR care in Sweden and Sub-Saharan Africa.  I  supervise doctoral students in Sweden and in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia.As part of my engagement in reseach and education within SRHR I am part of the management committee of the Academic Network for SRHR Policy (ANSER).

The core of my teaching is in sexual and reproductive health and rights from a global health perspective, supervision of doctoral and master students as well as research methods. I am the course leader for the course "Collecting and organizing epidemiological data" (7.5 ECT credits, code: 4FH084).

My teaching includes lectures and seminars at undergraduate and graduate courses (masters and PhD). When teaching I have used “traditional”
lecturing, workshops, seminars, blended learning including e-learning. Ihave initiated a doctoral course in SRHR, a joint course within the ANSER
Network