Karin Hugelius

Karin Hugelius is a Senior Lecturer at Örebro University’s Department of Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences. She specializes in disaster medicine, crisis management, and prehospital emergency care, with a clinical role as an ambulance nurse in Region Örebro County. Her international experience spans 20+ years with the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), UN, EU, and the Swedish Red Cross in crisis and disaster response.

• Affiliations: Örebro University, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM), Ambulance Health Research Network (AHRN), Karolinska Institute’s Center for Health Crises.
• Research Focus: Disaster nursing, leadership in crises, psychosocial support, community resilience, and workplace violence in ambulance services.

Her recent publications analyze disaster responders’ health, technical/non-technical skills, and tools like HESPER Web for needs assessment. She supervises PhD students Anna Slettmyr and Anja Westman, co-supervises Magnus Viking.

Additional assignments include roles in MSB, EU Civil Protection Mechanism, and WADEM Nursing Section (2019–2025). She has authored books on disaster nursing and crisis management.