Changemaker Investigators
Kristi Sidney Annerstedt
Organization: Karolinska Institutet (KI)
Project Role: Principal Investigator and Coordinator
Bio: Kristi is an internationally renowned academic with extensive experience of management and participation in EU funded projects. Her main expertise lies in implementation science and economic analysis.
Claudia Hanson
Organisations: Karolinska Institutet (KI) and Aga Khan University (AKU)
Project Role: Researcher WP 2 and 3
Bio: Claudia is an epidemiologist and implementation scientist working in the last 35 years in global public health in diverse settings and positions. She has been leading and co-leading eight trials in LMIC.
Helle Mölsted Alvesson
Organisations: Karolinska Institutet (KI)
Project Role: Work Package 3 Lead and colleague
Bio: I have expertise in medical anthropology and global health. I am very interested in methods and in particular qualitative and participatory methods including co-design processes. I have designed and analyzed community nutrition projects through previous consultancy work.
Sibylle Herzig Van Wees
Organisations: Karolinska Institutet (KI)
Project Role: Researcher on WP 3
Bio: Sibylle is a global behavioural and implementation science researcher working with mixed methods. She has experience working with co-design projects in Nigeria, East Africa, and Sweden.
Elin Larsson
Organisations: Karolinska Institutet (KI)
Project Role: Researcher on WP 3
Bio: Elin is an associate professor and researcher in global and sexual and reproductive rights. Her research focuses on migrations and SRHR both in LMICs, and in Sweden and Europe. She has experience working on co-design projects.
Anna Kågesten
Organisations: Karolinska Institutet (KI)
Project Role: Support for WP 1 and Researcher on WP 3
Bio: Anna is an associate professor and researcher in global and sexual and reproductive rights. Her research focuses on the intersection between social and structural determinants of health, such as gender inequality and empowerment, with SRHR. She has strong experience in working with adolescents and youth to ensure that a holistic perspective is included in Changemaker.
Anna-Mia Ekström
Organisations: Karolinska Institutet (KI)
Project Role: Support for WP 1
Bio: Anna is a clinical professor in infectious disease epidemiology focusing on HIV. Currently, runs the Hans Rosling research group, and lead many projects in the areas of SRHR, HIV, and gender in resource-poor, high-risk contexts and sub-populations. Anna-Mia Ekström will support and mentor the team, bringing in her many years of experience in managing large research projects.
Elisa Gobbo
Organisations: Karolinska Institutet (KI)
Project Role: Support for WP 1 and Researcher for WP3
Bio: Elisa is a research assistant at KI. She recently graduated from KI with a master’s in health economics, management, and policy. She has a keen interest in implementation science and health system strengthening.
Sonia Hammi
Organisations: Karolinska Institutet (KI)
Project Role: Support for WP 1—EU Grants Management
Bio: Sonia is an EU Grants Manager for the Global Public Health Department at KI. She is the contact person for the department’s EU and EDCTP projects where she assists with support during the life of the project all the way from application to project completion. She graduated in 2019 with a master’s in Global Health from Uppsala University, Sweden.
Stefan Swartling Peterson
Organisations: Karolinska Institutet (KI)
Project Role: Senior Advisor
Bio: I am a Public Health Physician and Professor of Global Health. My formative work has been in East Africa over the last 20 years working on health systems and implementation science in the fields of child survival, perinatal quality of care and capacity development. I served as the Global Chief of the Health for UNICEF 2016-20, based in New York. From 1 January 2021, I am a Professor of Global Transformation for Health at KI, with side affiliations to Uppsala University and Makerere University, Uganda.
Ina Danquah
Organisations: University of Bonn (UBO)
Project Role: WP 5 lead and coordination
Bio: I am a nutrition epidemiologist working on the interrelations of climate change and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. As Hertz-Chair for Planetary Health, I run population-based projects to develop, implement, and test adaptation strategies and mitigation options.
Raissa Sorgho
Organisations: University of Bonn (UBO)
Project Role: Researcher on WP 5
Bio: A global health researcher with a focus on the the intersection of climate change and human health. Exploring the multiple pathways throughs which climate impacts health especially in LMIC.
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