Research subject Health (In)equity

The project investigated the social and developmental origins and consequences of overweight and obesity, negative body image, disordered eating and impaired psychological well-being over the life course and across generations of parents and children in South Africa and Sweden.

Cancer screening, stage at diagnosis and survival among people with disabilities: Evidences from the Swedish national registers

Do early-life poverty and food shortage trigger biological and cognitive responses in four subsequent generations? - A test of the Pembrey-Bygren transgenerational response hypothesis.

Explaining COVID-19 mortality among immigrants in Sweden: A social determinants of health perspective

A substantial number of spouses and offspring experience a family member with an illness while they remain working. The diagnoses of the patient reverberate in the family and cause substantial distress for the relatives.

What are the associations between the death of a family member during the COVID-19 pandemic and the risk of in- and out-patient psychiatric care, use of psychotropic medication, mental health related sick-leave, and attempted and completed suicides among bereaved family members?

This postdoc project investigated precarious employment as a social determinant of health. Precarious work has been described as "non-standard employment that is poorly paid, insecure, unprotected, and cannot support a household" and is highly interlinked with more traditional classifications of social class.

Studies of Migration and Social Determinants of Health (SMASH) is a collaborative research project based at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University and funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) for the period 2017-2022.

SWECOV is the Swedish Register-based Research Project on COVID-19. SWECOV is a multidisciplinary research collaboration focused on using quantitative methods and comprehensive register data about the whole Swedish population to answer important questions about the consequences of the pandemic.

The ambiguous socioeconomic gradient in immigrants’ health in the context of the ‘healthy migrant paradox’

Countries' political responses to covid-19 share a common goal of protecting public health, yet are highly diverse in both design and outcome. In a set of three integrated studies, the purpose of this project is to investigate how social inequalities in health have been affected by political determinants during the covid-19 pandemic.