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Published 30 January 2023 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has assessed Cambodia's political and social trends of the past year for East Asia Forum. The article is part of the annual EAF Year in Review series, in which country experts assess the trends of the past year that are likely to affect the year in prospect. The full article on the East Asia Forum website
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/year-review-article-cambodia-2022 - 2025-04-03
Published 20 February 2023 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published a chapter on civil society leadership in the Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia. The chapter examines how civil society leadership has been addressed in key debates on civil society in Southeast Asia, and provides suggestions for how these debates can benefit from advancing the research agenda on civil so
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-civil-society-leadership-southeast-asia - 2025-04-03
Published 3 April 2023 The Centre for East and Southeast Asian studies conducts research and teaching on Asia, and is looking for an intern. The successful candidate will contribute to both research and administration at the Centre and for the in-house journal, Asia in Focus. As part of their internship, the candidate will write an article, with feedback from researchers at the Centre, for submiss
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/internship-position-centre-open-applications-0 - 2025-04-03
By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 28 April 2021 Professor Sölve Elmståhl is co-author of the article Predictive Performance of the FIF Screening Tool in 2 Cohorts of Community-Living Older Adults which has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. The study shows that the screening tool First-time In
By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 4 January 2021 Charlotte is a professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University and research group leader for the unit Epigenetics and Diabetes at Lund University Diabetes Center (LUDC). Charlotte defended her dissertation in endocrinology at the University of Gothenburg in 2002 and
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/we-welcome-professor-charlotte-ling-new-board-member-epihealth - 2025-04-03
Published 4 December 2020 Soon we will all be able to help fight the corona infection by reporting daily how we feel in a new app. The information will show where in Sweden the risk of infection is high, how fast it spreads and who belongs to certain risk groups. - It can give healthcare an early indication of where the number of disease cases is expected to increase, says Paul Franks, professor o
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/video-app-will-map-corona-infection-sweden - 2025-04-03
Published 29 April 2020 A free app that will help map the spread of infection in Sweden and increase knowledge about the coronavirus is launched by researchers at Lund University. - Data from the app can give us a better picture of the course of the disease and why some are only slightly affected while others become seriously ill and die, says Paul Franks, professor of genetic epidemiology. Read m
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/app-covid-symptom-tracker-launched-sweden-and-researchers-need-your-help-0 - 2025-04-03
Published 9 May 2019 In Sweden, the number of people over the age of 80 will increase from 500,000 to 800,000 within the next ten years - an increase of 300,000 people, at the same time as healthcare will be affected by large retirements during the same period. - This is one of the biggest challenges ever for Swedish healthcare, says Sölve Elmståhl, professor and chief physician in geriatrics and
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/reportage-good-aging-skane-mapping-how-future-care-should-be-planned - 2025-04-03
Published 23 August 2018 What shapes our health later in life does not just depend on how we live, our childhoods, or when we we in the womb. How our parents were feeling and how they lived when we were born can affect our health. Peter M Nilsson, professor of clinical cardiovascular research at Lund University wants a broad focus on health and lifestyle counseling for young people and for those w
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/reportage-live-healthily-sake-your-future-children - 2025-04-03
Published 23 February 2018 In the large population study Malmö Offspring Study, researchers try to find out how our intestinal flora is affected by diet and what significance this has for health. - We have about one and a half kilos of bacteria in the intestines, says Louise Brunkwall - PhD. student in diabetes and cardiovascular disease and genetic epidemiology. Please read the entire report here
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/reportage-bacteria-important-gut-feeling - 2025-04-03
Published 7 February 2018 2018-02-07 New EU general data protection regulation This new law will come into force on 25 May 2018. A bill will be presented to the Swedish Parliament in April to adapt Swedish legislation to the EU Data Protection Regulation. All epidemiological researchers who work with follow-ups and registers are recommended to familiarize themselves with these new regulations. ht
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/new-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr - 2025-04-03
Published 7 February 2018 7 February, 2018 The strategic research area EpiHealth - Epidemiology for Health - together with LUPOP - Lund University Population Research Platform - now opens a call for proposals for new PhD - courses of relevance for population research. We will fund 3 - 5 courses during 2018 related to e.g. epidemiological data analysis, medical statistics, biobank studies, bioinfor
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/announcement-arrangement-courses-funding-sra-epihealth - 2025-04-03
By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 25 May 2021 SRA EpiHealth has conducted an interview with board member of EpiHealth Professor Martin Englund and postdoc Andrea Dell'isola about the EpiHealth cohort, how they plan to use it in their research, and what it means to them and SRA EpiHealth. Martin has been awarded research support from S
By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 27 May 2021 Professor Olle Melander has been awarded research support from SRA EpiHealth for the employment of a postdoc for the project “Translational epidemiological studies of the cardiometabolic hormones neurotensin and adrenomedullin” SRA EpiHealth is interested in knowing how he intends to use t
By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 14 June 2021 The purpose of this communications strategy is to outline the approach we will take to ensure that existing research within the national and international communities are developed and communicated to relevant stakeholders. Epidemiology for Health - EpiHealth is a joint strategic research
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/read-our-epihealth-communications-strategy - 2025-04-03
By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 13 July 2021 A representative from the strategic research area (SRA) EpiHealth has talked to Martin L. Olsson, who is the faculty management representative of the EpiHealth board and Deputy Dean with special responsibility for research infrastructure and strategic issues at the Faculty of Medicine. Ma
Published 12 September 2021 In a new study, researchers at Lund University and Uppsala University have seen a clear connection between how long a person sleeps and a number of biomarkers linked to cardiometabolic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. “With greater knowledge of the actual mechanisms of disease development, the possibilities for a more specific and targeted tr
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/hours-you-sleep-mean-more-you-think - 2025-04-03
By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 5 October 2021 Professor Lars Lind uses the EpiHealth cohort to investigate why people with diabetes have a higher risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases and how genetic factors can contribute to this. He is trying to map a diabetes profile to find mechanisms which can instigate the d
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/epihealth-cohort-we-find-genes-diabetes - 2025-04-03
By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 27 October 2021 Three researchers in the new research project will develop and evaluate applications that can be used to detect and combat pandemics with the help of AI, among other things. From left: Yana Litins'ka, Jonas Björk, Malin Inghammar. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter We have lived with the corona pan
https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/ai-will-help-us-detect-future-pandemics - 2025-04-03
By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 6 December 2021 Professor Åsa Westrin Professor Åsa Westrin manages a big national medical screening database to conduct research on Death by Suicide in the Swedish population. The database helps her extract research data on the contacts and relationships between healthcare and patients who have died
