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Professor Lars Sandman serves as Director at Linköping University's Swedish National Centre for Priorities in Health and holds a professorship within the Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences (HMV) under the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. His primary research unit is the Unit of Health Care Analysis, which focuses on health economic assessment, healthcare decision-making, and priority setting in health and social services.
His research centers on organizational ethics in healthcare, specifically examining ethical frameworks for distributing scarce resources and developing methods for ethical analysis of medical procedures. Key focus areas include priority setting in healthcare systems, severity assessment in resource allocation, and ethical challenges in emerging treatments like uterine transplantation. His work bridges theoretical philosophy with practical healthcare policy implementation.
Analysis of his recent publications reveals consistent emphasis on ethical decision-making under scarcity, with growing attention to mental health interventions, disaster triage protocols, and innovative allocation methods like lotteries for rare disease treatments. His interdisciplinary approach integrates health economics, clinical ethics, and policy analysis.
Lars Sandman actively serves as an ethics advisor for major Swedish healthcare authorities including the Swedish Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency, National Board of Health and Welfare, New Therapies Council, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and Västra Götaland region. He leads significant research initiatives such as the Swedish Research Council-funded Just Severity program on priority setting and contributes to the Swedish Knowledge Management Structure's horizontal priority setting model.
His research group within the Unit of Health Care Analysis collaborates extensively with national healthcare institutions, particularly evident in uterine transplantation cost analysis projects with Sahlgrenska Academy. Current work emphasizes practical implementation of ethical frameworks in real-world healthcare systems.
