معرفی
Emilie Agardh is an Associate Professor and Principal Researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Global Public Health. She co-leads the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Conditions, Substance Use, and Social Environment (EPiCSS) research group and heads the 'Determinants of Health and Burden of Disease' team. Her research focuses on quantifying disease burden, health inequalities, and social determinants using longitudinal and registry data, with collaborations at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
Her core research investigates how socioeconomic, behavioral, and environmental factors drive health disparities, emphasizing:
- Global Burden of Disease (GBD) methodologies
- Alcohol/drug epidemiology
- Mental health and substance use disorders
- Impact of income, education, and inequality on mortality/morbidity
Recent publications (2020-2025) predominantly analyze Nordic registry data using GBD frameworks, emphasizing:
- Alcohol/drug-attributable disease burden
- Socioeconomic gradients in mental health
- Life expectancy trends and policy impacts
Awards & Grants:
- FORTE Project Grant (4.92M SEK, 2021) for 'A new approach to capture inequalities in health'
- Systembolaget Alcohol Research Council Grant (2019)
- Funding for Nordic alcohol policy studies (2020-2025)
She leads 'Team Agardh', leveraging Swedish population registers for burden-of-disease studies and collaborates internationally on GBD projects.
