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About SFO-V
Research in health care science is essential to advance knowledge of health promotion, prevention, nursing and rehabilitation as well as organization and management of care.
Today, more people survive injuries and conditions that were previously fatal, people are living longer, and new methodologies are raising hopes for improved quality of life - yet the individual and societal costs of care remain high.
SFO-V's vision
The overall vision for the Strategic Research Area Health Care Science is to ensure that the development and provision of healthcare services is based upon high quality research. The program presents a strategy for a new organization of health care science research at Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University, increased collaboration with healthcare providers and the business sector, and the renewal and expansion of advanced education (Masters/PhD).
SFO-V at Umeå Universitet
SFO-V promotes collaboration and invites stakeholders to take an active role in its work. The research area is strengthened and supported by the active engagement of the two universities' partner organizations: Stockholm and Västerbotten County Councils. It is governed by a board that includes representatives from the community, academia, and from national bodies related to health and welfare.
Our 4 core research areas
Research within SFO-V is focused on four main areas:
Co-creation - of services, processes and products refers to collaborative activities and approaches that strive to facilitate users, i.e. any stakeholder in issues related to health, disease and illness, working together on equal terms to create value, based on their different types of knowledge and experience.
Self-management - refers to a person's ability to manage the symptoms, treatment, physical and psychological consequences, and life-style changes inherent in living with a health condition.
eHealth - refers to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health and health-related fields, including health care services, health surveillance, health communication, health education and research.
Bio-behavioural health care science - refers to the intercept of health care sciences with biological and behavioural sciences, to study the complex interactions among biological, social, behavioural and environmental factors and their effects on outcome to address issues of relevance for health care sciences.
Executive management and coordinator
The members in the executive management represent the surrounding society, academia and national organisations in the field of health care service, as well as Stockholm and Västerbotten county council.
Staffan Josephsson
Professor / Director SFO-V
Email: staffan.josephsson@ki.se
Department: H1 Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society
Staffan Josephsson has been a professor of occupational therapy at Karolinska Institutet (KI) since 2011. He received his undergraduate education in occupational therapy at the then Stockholm School of Health Sciences and the education in pedagogy and theater studies is from Stockholm University. Staffan's dissertation on "Everyday activities as meeting places for dementia" he defended at Karolinska Institutet in 1994.
The starting point in Staffan's work is the research group Activity and participation when aging (APEL), which focuses on how participation is established together with older people in different circumstances and with different conditions.
Another node in Staffan's work is the group Health in Context at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, with which he has a long-term collaboration on issues concerning participation in everyday life.
In his role as a teacher, he has the ambition to challenge elitist pedagogy and work for relevant forms of teaching that include student participation and creativity. Staffan has learned a lot from working with European colleagues in The European Master in Occupational Therapy and from his Chilean colleagues at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile.
Lars E Eriksson
Lecturer / Deputy Director SFO-V
Email: lars.eriksson@ki.se
Lars E. Eriksson has a background as a registered nurse, master of science in chemistry and doctor of medicine in nursing and is an associate professor in care sciences and senior lecturer in nursing at Karolinska Institutet where he is division and research group lead at the Division of Innovative Care Research at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics. Lars has a clinical affiliation to the Medical Unit Infectious Diseases at Karolinska University Hospital and he also has a part-time position as a professor at the School of Health Sciences at the City, University of London, United Kingdom.
Lars' scientific profile has developed towards the branch of healthcare science that is established as biobehavioural or translational healthcare science. Early in his research career, he combined scientific work in nursing and biomedicine, mainly in HIV and sexual health. After the dissertation, his research line has expanded to also include studies on populations with other long-lasting or chronic conditions. He is PI of studies that explore quality of life, stigma and illness perception in people living with HIV. In addition, he is the PI of a translational research project on early signs and symptoms and biomarkers as predictors of lung cancer and is the PI for the Swedish part of an EU-funded intervention project, Magnet4Europe, which aims to improve mental health and well-being for healthcare staff in acute care hospitals.
Ing-Mari Dohrn
Postdoctoral researcher / Board member SFO-V
Email: ing-mari.dohrn@ki.se
Ing-Mari Dohrn is a licensed physiotherapist / physiotherapist and doctor of medicine in physiotherapy at KI. She has been an SFO-V Fellow and postdoctoral fellow at the Aging Research Center, KI, and at the University of Queensland. Ing-Mari conducts research at the Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society with a focus on physical activity and sedentary life in the elderly, as well as measurement methods for physical activity.
In her research, Ing-Mari has studied the relationship between health and physical activity or sedentary with the help of movement meters, so-called accelerometers, in two large Swedish observational studies, Attitude, Behavior and Change study (ABC) and Swedish National study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen (SNAC-K). She has also evaluated physical activity and health-related quality of life in the elderly who have participated in challenging balance training. Through her research, Ing-Mari wants to contribute to increased knowledge about the interplay between biological and behavioral factors. Knowledge that can form the basis for health-promoting recommendations on physical activity for both patients and the general public.
Helena Lindgren
Lecturer senior
Phone: 0733-44 25 99
Email: helena.lindgren@ki.se
Department: K6 Department of Women's and Children's Health
Helena Lindgren holds a position as senior lecturer and is also an associate professor specializing in reproductive and perinatal health. She has extensive experience from teaching at midwifery programs and master program in care sciences. She is the head of division for reproductive health at the department of women's and children's health at Karolinska Institutet since 2016 and the program director for the midwifery program at KI. She is member of the international council at the university and also of the international committee and the board of education within the Swedish Midwives Association.
Her research focus is on models of care for optimal outcomes during pregnancy and childbirth. She has conducted epidemiological studies, intervention studies and she has also extensive experience from complex interventions using qualitative data for evaluations and enhanced understanding. HL is the innovator of the MIMA-model (Midwives' Management during the second stage of labor) which showed a reduction in perineal injuries among first-time mothers.
She is since 2017 a guest professor at the University of Gondar in Ethiopia where she has developed a PhD program in midwifery in collaboration with national colleagues. Her clinical experience comes mainly from labor and childbirth but also from antenatal care and supervision in clinical settings.
Helena Lindgren is part of the working group for the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Health, a collaboration between KI and Makerere University where she is also the lead for SRHR research and capacity buildning. https://cesh.health/
Research projects where Helena Lindgren is the Principal Investigator:
EMMA-program (co-leader Erica Schytt) – Enhanced Maternity care for MigrAnt women – research to action
MIDWIZE – Midwifery led interdisciplinary care and Zero separation. A project aiming at improving maternal and child health care and nutrition in low- and middle income settings.
Susanne Rautiainen Lagerström
Medical doctor / Board member SFO-V
Email: susanne.rautiainen@ki.se
Department: K2 Department of Medicine, Solna
Susanne is a researcher at the Global and Sexual Health (GloSH) Research Group and research fellow at the Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA.
Susanne has research experience in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and clinical- and lifestyle-related risk factors from small- and large-scale clinical trials and obsevational studies gained from her PhD training at Karolinska Institutet and 4-year postdoc at Harvard Medical School.
Susanne's main research goal is to identify new strategies to tackle malnutrition, infectious, and NCDs in low- and middle-income countries.
Current project:
The open population-based Rakai Community Cohort in Uganda: Understand the interplay between nutrition and microbiome in NCDs and infectious diseases
WelTel study: Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT), HIV/AIDS care in Kenya - mobile phone intervention
The Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) trial http://www.cosmostrial.org
Physicians' Health Study (PHS) II
the Vitamin D and Omega-3 TriaL (VITAL)-HT trial https://www.vitalstudy.org/index.html
Aterenon trial: Testing lycopene supplementation on changes in key cardiovascular biomarkers
Marina Olsson
Email: marina.olsson@ki.se
Research areas Cancer and Haematology Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology Circulation and respiration Developmental Biology and Reproduction Endocrinology and Metabolism Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences Health Care Sciences Infection and Inflammation Neuroscience
External research funding Swedish foundations Funding from the EU US research funding Strategic research areas
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