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Professor
Research subject: Public Health Science
Email: gloria.macassa@hig.se
Telephone: +46 26 64 82 28
Licensed Medical Doctor; Professor of Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology, Associate Professor in Public Health Sciences (MIUN); Associate Professor in Social Medicine (KI)
CURRENT RESEARCH
EU-ABUEL (2008-2010); EU-PROMO (2008-2010); EU-Dove (2009-2013); ChildSA (2012-2015); GHOLDH (2012-2017); CAHI (2014-2019), Erasmus+ REVAMP (2019-2020).
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I graduated in Medicine from Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo-Mozambique (1992). Thereafter, I was awarded a Master in Public Health Sciences with emphasis in Demography at Karolinska Institutet (1999) and a PhD in Epidemiology from Karolinska Institute (2004). Currently I am a Professor of Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology and the research leader of the “Social Epidemiology, Population Health and Violence” (SEPHV) research group/network.
Poverty and health in different contexts- social inequalities in child mortality in Mozambique and 19th Century Stockholm . Karolinska Institute/CHESS.
2014 - Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Gävle, Sweden
2013 - Professor of Public Health Sciences, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden
2011 - Associate Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
2011 - Associate Professor of Public Health, Department of Health Sciences Mid-Sweden University, Sweden
2015 - af. Professor of Epidemiology, Epidemiology Unit-ISPUP, University of Porto Medical School.
2012-2013 - Senior Lecturer in Public Health Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
2010-2014 - Senior Lecturer in Public Health Sciences, Department of Occupational and Public Health Sciences, University of Gävle, Sweden
2011 - Guest Researcher, Department of Psychology Mid-Sweden University, Sweden
2007-2010 - Epidemiologist, Division of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences; Karolinska Institutet, (Research Group Health and Safety Promotion; sub Section Violence and Determinants of Health)
2005-2007 - Epidemiologist, Division of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences; Karolinska Institutet, (Research Group Health Equity and Policy Analysis)
1998 to date - Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Medicine, Mozambique
1992-1996 - Clinical Director, Malhangalene Health Centre, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique
1992 - Senior lecturer Public Health and Epidemiology, Department of Community Health, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
Member of the editorial board (s)/current
Completed: Ismail Yahaya, Bahareh Eslami, Diego Arturo Sarastri, Anne-Sofie Hiswåls, Ann-Kristin Eriksson, A.Eugenio .Z; DD.A; Hesamedin Abassi, Afroza Begun.