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Anna Sarkadi is a Professor in Social Medicine at the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University. She is a physician and leads a research group focused on child health, parenting, and mental wellbeing, with a strong emphasis on immigrant and refugee populations. Her work integrates public health, clinical medicine, and social policy to develop and evaluate interventions that promote family and child mental health.
Her research interests include social medicine, child and adolescent mental health, parenting support, immigrant and refugee health, developmental disorders, preventive interventions, and public health policy. She employs both qualitative and quantitative methods, with a focus on community-based participatory research, intervention studies, and health services evaluation.
Her recent publications (2023–2025) span topics such as mental health resilience in refugee youth, language development screening, teacher wellbeing, and economic hardship screening in child health services. Many of her studies involve co-design with stakeholders, including refugee families, and focus on equity and inclusion.
Anna Sarkadi supervises
- 6 current PhD students
- 12 graduated PhD students
- 6 residents in social medicine and public health
Her grants and research projects include evaluations of parenting programs, trauma interventions (e.g., Teaching Recovery Techniques), and studies on socioeconomic determinants of child health. She frequently collaborates with interdisciplinary teams across Sweden and internationally.
She leads or contributes to research in labs and teams focused on
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Migration and Health
- Public Health Interventions
- Family and Parenting Support
