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Shirin Ziaei is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Global Health at Uppsala University, Sweden, with joint appointments in the Department of Food Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics and the Department of Women's and Children's Health, International Child Health and Nutrition. For more than a decade she has taught global health and nutritional science at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Education: Although specific degrees are not listed in the text, Dr Ziaei defended her doctoral thesis in 2016 entitled “Women’s status and child nutrition: Findings from community studies in Bangladesh and Nicaragua”, indicating advanced training in global health and nutrition.
Research Focus: Dr Ziaei’s work centres on the intersection of women’s empowerment, gender-based violence, and maternal and child nutrition. Beginning with investigations into how women’s status influences child nutritional outcomes, her research has expanded to encompass:
- nutritional epidemiology among older adults,
- domestic violence and its intergenerational health effects,
- sexual health and female sexual function in Sweden.
Publication Trends: Across 20+ peer-reviewed articles published between 2012 and 2024, her scholarship demonstrates a consistent emphasis on population-based epidemiology, longitudinal cohort analyses, and multi-country comparisons. The majority of studies employ large survey data sets (e.g., DHS, national health examination surveys) and span low-, middle-, and high-income settings, illustrating a trajectory from early-career focus on child undernutrition toward broader life-course perspectives on violence and health.
Grants & Collaborative Projects:
- Principal Investigator, Swedish Research Council (VR) project “Patterns and Determinants of Domestic Violence Against Women in Rural Bangladesh and Consequent Child Abuse: An Analysis of Longitudinal Data from MINIMat (2001–2018)”, 2019–2022.
- Collaborator, National Centre for Knowledge on Men’s Violence Against Women, ongoing project evaluating cervical-cancer screening among women with experiences of violence in Sweden (since 2023).
Teaching & Mentoring: Dr Ziaei has over ten years of experience teaching global health and nutrition at Uppsala University; no specific student names are provided in the source material.
