Department of Epidemiology and Global Health (EpIGH), Umeå University
Institutional Lead: Anna-Karin Hurtig, MD, MSc, PhD
Anna-Karin Hurtig is professor in public health with a focus on health policy and systems research. She is currently the Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Global Health at Umeå University, Sweden. She has collaborated in research and capacity building in areas of Primary Health Care for more than twenty years, mainly in several sub-Saharan countries. During the last years she has increasingly been involved in health systems research in Sweden. She serves on the board of the Swedish Association for Social Medicine and Public Health and in the Committee for Development Research of the Swedish Research Council. After practising clinical medicine, she pursued further studies in public health and obtained Master´s and Doctoral degrees from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.” https://www.umu.se/en/staff/anna-karin-hurtig/
Core team members
Miguel San Sebastián, MD, MSc, PhD
Miguel is a professor in public health in the department of Epidemiology and Global Health at Umeå University, Sweden. He practiced public health during 12 years among indigenous communities of the Amazon basin of Ecuador. Currently working as Professor teaching different courses at Master and PhD level. His current research is focused on strengthening health systems in low-income countries and social inequalities in health in the Swedish context. He is also the health research leader at Várdduo-Center for Sámi Research. https://www.umu.se/en/staff/miguel-san-sebastian/
Moses Tetui, PhD
Moses is an associate professor at the department of Epidemiology and Global Health at and a Postdoctoral researcher at the School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, Canada. Moses also holds an affiliation with the Makerere University School of Public Health in Uganda. His current research works include building confidence in Covid-19 vaccines in Canada by engaging with diverse stakeholders such as Public Health authorities, community members and a multidisciplinary research team. His other research works include contraceptive use in urban informal settlements, access to maternal and neonatal health services, health managers capacity development and knowledge translation. He is motivated by a desire to make health systems more responsive for the most vulnerable across the world. https://www.umu.se/en/staff/moses-tetui/
Mazen Baroudi, MD.
Mazen is a Syrian/Swedish paediatrician who is currently in his last year of PhD in public health at Umeå University Sweden. His thesis is about young migrants’ access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in Sweden. He is interested in health systems research, sexual and reproductive health and rights’ research and research and practices related to migration health. Dr. Mazen is a member in Umeå Migration and Integration Network and a co-coordinator of the academic space of “Politics, policies and primary healthcare” at the department of Epidemiology and Global Health in Umeå University. https://www.umu.se/en/staff/mazen-baroudi/