Researchers

Steering Committee

Theo Bodin
Principal Investigor

Associate Professor and Resident Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet. 

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Maria Albin
Deputy Principal Investigator

Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet

Tomas Hemmingsson
Deputy Principal Investigator

Professor of sociological alcohol- and drug research at Stockholm University, Sweden

Nuria Matilla Santander
Program Coordinator

Postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Instituet

Sherry Baron
WP 2 Leader

Professor and a faculty member of the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College

Carles Muntaner
WP 1 Leader

Professor of Social & Behavioural Health Sciences  at University of Toronto

Carin Håkansta
WP 3 Leader

Ph.D. in Work Science from Luleå University of Technology. Researcher at Karolinska Institutet and at Karlstad Univeristy.

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Nuria Matilla Santander
WP Leader

Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet 

Carles Muntaner
WP Leader

Professor of Social & Behavioural Health Sciences  at University of Toronto

Bertina Kreshpaj

Postdoctoral researcher at the Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Copenhagen University.

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Maria Albin

Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet

Theo Bodin

Associate Professor and Resident Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet

Burstrom

Professor and Senior Physician at the Department of Global Health, Karolinska Institutet

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Letitia Davis

Ph.D.,Massachusetts Department of Public Health 

Virginia Gunn

Post-doctoral researcher and adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto 

Tomas Hemmingsson

Professor of sociological alcohol- and drug research at Stockholm University, Sweden

Johanna Jonsson

PhD student at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

Mireia Julià

Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Katarina Kjellberg

Researcher at the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet

Karin Nilsson

Psychologist

Cecilia Orellana

Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet. 

Eva Padrosa

PhD student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Karen Van Aerden

Postdoctoral researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Christophe Vanroelen

Associate professor and the director of Interface Demography, Department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Alejandra Vives

Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

David Wegman

Professor Emeritus at the Department of Work Environment UMass Lowell and  Adjunct Professor at Harvard School of Public Health

Rebeka Balogh
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Lauri Kokkinen
University Lecturer
Faculty of Social Sciences/ Health Sciences at Tampere University, Finland
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Fabrizio Mendez
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Per-Olof Östergren
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Work Package 2

Theo Bodin
WP Leader

Associate Professor and Resident Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet

Sherry Baron
WP Leader

Professor and a faculty member of the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College

Isabel Cuervo

Senior Research Associate at Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment, Queens College, CUNY

Emilia Vignola

PhD Student at City University of New York

Emily Ahonen

Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health

Christophe Vanroelen

Associate professor and the director of Interface Demography, Department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Kim Bosmans

Postdoctoral Researcher at Research Foundation Flanders - FWO

Mireia Julià

Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Eva Padrosa

PhD student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Wayne Lewchuck

Professor Emeritus at the Faculty Department of Economics and at the School of Labour Studies, McMaster University

Carles Muntaner

Professor of Social & Behavioural Health Sciences  at University of Toronto 

Patricia O´Campo

PhD, BSc. Executive Director (Interim), Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute

Alejandra Vives

Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Marisol Ruiz

Marisol is currently working as an Adjunt Professor at Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile (Valdivia)

Ann Bergman

Professor in Working Life Science at Karlstad University

Per-Olof Östergren

Professor at Social Medicine and Global Health at Lund University

Mireia Bolibar

Post-doctoral researcher in Sociology, University Pompeu Fabra 

Pearl Buhariwala

Pearl Buhariwala is a Research Coordinator at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto.

Karin Nilsson
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David Wegman
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Mattias Vos

Mattias is a phd student at Interface Demography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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Kristian Vänerhagen

University Lecturer in Working Life Science at Karlstad University, Sweden

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Lars Ivarsson
Lars Ivarsson is an assistant professor in Working Life Science, at Karlstad University, Sweden. His
research interest is mainly experiences and perceptions of work at an individual level. Ivarsson
received his Ph.D. in Working Life Science in 2005, and has since done research on – for example –
customer relations and customer intense work; personal activities on company time; the
phenomenon of making a living on one’s passion, e.g. athletes, musicians, artist etc.
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Idiaz Concha
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Alessandro Zaupa

PhD in Biomaterial Science. Researcher at the Department of Public Health, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

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Virginia Gunn
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Astrid Escrig-Pinol
Professor at Mar Nursing School (ESIMar), Barcelona, Spain, and PhD in Public Health from the University of Toronto
Signild Kvart

PhD student in Occupational Medicine, background in international public health and health equity studies

Work Package 3

Carin Håkansta
WP Leader

Ph.D. in Work Science from Luleå University of Technology. Researcher at Karolinska Institutet and at Karlstad Univeristy. 

Bertina Kreshpaj

Postdoctoral researcher at the Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Copenhagen University.

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Virginia Gunn

Post-doctoral researcher and adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto 

Maria Albin

Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet

Sherry Baron

Professor and a faculty member of the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College

Theo Bodin

Associate Professor and Resident Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet

Christer Hogstedt

MD, Senior Researcehr at Karolinska Institutet

Nuria Matilla Santander

Postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Instituet

Carles Muntaner

Professor of Social & Behavioural Health Sciences  at University of Toronto

Emilia Vignola

PhD Student at City University of New York

David Wegman

Professor Emeritus at the Department of Work Environment UMass Lowell and  Adjunct Professor at Harvard School of Public Health

Inger Schaumburg

Director General at National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen

Wayne Lewchuk
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Katarina Kjellberg
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