
Forskarpresentation
Gloria Macassa
Professor
Forskningsämne: Folkhälsovetenskap
E-post: gloria.macassa@hig.se
Telefon: 026-64 82 28
Legitimerad läkare, professor i folkhälsovetenskap och epidemiologi, docent i folkhälsovetenskap (MIUN); Docent i Social Medicin (KI)
AKTUELL FORSKNING
Sociala bestämningsfaktorer för hälsa och våld.
Pågående studier innefattar sociala orsaker till ojämlikhet i barns, ungdomars och vuxnas hälsa i i-länder och u-länder. Dessutom behandlas sociala faktorer för våld mot barn, kvinnor, män och äldre samt ojämlikhet i psykisk hälsa och vård bland marginaliserade grupper i i-länder och u-länder.
LÄS MER OM
Short Curriculum Vitae
Education/Training
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.
PhD Thesis
Poverty and health in different contexts- social inequalities in child mortality in Mozambique and 19th Century Stockholm . Karolinska Institute/CHESS.
Current Position (s)
2015 - af. Professor of Epidemiology, Epidemiology Unit-ISPUP, University of Porto Medical School
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.
Previous Position (s)
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
Activities in Peer Review Journals
Member of the editorial board
- Mid-Sweden Journal of Public Health
- BMC Global Health Research and Policy
Supervision of PhD Students
Completed: Ismail Yahaya (MIUN 2014); Bahareh Eslami (MIUN2013); Diego Arturo
Sarastri- (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia 2015)
Current PhD students
Ann Kristin Eriksson MSc: Thesis title: Erfarenheter av utmattningssyndrom och existentiell rehabilitering: En kvalitativ intervjustudie med vårdtagare och vårdgivare I svensk vårdkontext (MIUN)
Sayed Hesameddin Abassi MD; Thesis title: Social Inequalities in Coronary Heart Disease in Iran (MIUN);
Maryam Rumanian BSc, MSc. Thesis title: Health and Health Behaviour Among School Children in Teheran (MIUN)
Afroza Begum, MPH. Thesis title: Suicide Ideation among Adolescents in Rural Bangladesh (MIUN)
Elena Ahmadi, MSc: Thesis title: Leadership Behaviour, Working Environment and Health in Award-winning Companies – a Manager and Subordinate Perspective (HIG)
Anne-Sofie Hiswåls MPH. Thesis title: Employment Conditions and Inequities in Health in Gävleborg (MIUN)