Research at Uppsala University

• A community-based participatory intervention to change attitudes towards female circumcision among Somali immigrants in Sweden: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  Due to the harmful consequences of female circumcision (FC), this project will seek to decrease the support of its continuation among newly arrived Somalis in Sweden. The hypothesis is that a community-based ...

• An intervention to change attitudes towards female circumcision among the Somali-Swedish community: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  Due to the harmful consequences of female circumcision (FC), this project will seek to decrease the support of its continuation among newly arrived Somalis in Sweden. The hypothesis is that a community-based ...

• Metropolitan mosquitoes: Understanding urban livestock keeping and vector-borne disease in growing tropical cities - the potential of sustainable control methods and the risks for emergence to Sweden.

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2020-12-31

  With more than 50% of the global population living in urban areas, cities are not only crowded with humans, but also with the livestock brought there to provide for high value animal-source food products ...

• The socioeconomic gradient in child health through childhood and across time

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-30

  There is strong persistence in social status across generations. Parental socioeconomic status may affect child health through channels such as parent’s income, education level, health and relative social ...

• Development of a replacement model to determine short and long term effects of environmental toxin mixtures using Drosophila

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  Toxicology testing is one of the main reasons for use of experimental animals. We set up a productive fly (Drosophila) lab, with a range of methodologies, enabling detailed molecular, physiological and ...

• Development, testing, and evaluation of an online, guided, cognitive behavioral-based intervention for parents of children previously treated for cancer

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  The purpose is to develop, test, and evaluate the clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness of an online cognitive behavioral-based intervention for psychological distress for parents of children previously ...

• Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Effects of pregnancy nutrition interventions on growth, body composition and timing of puberty. Follow-up of the MINIMat trial in rural Bangladesh.

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  This is a follow-up of the MINIMat trial in rural Bangladesh that was implemented in a setting, where food insecurity and maternal malnutrition still prevail, but where changing lifestyles and economic ...

• ERA-NET NEURON Mental Disorders RDmaria aDBS

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  ERA-NET NEURON Mental Disorders RDmaria aDBS ...

• The EXPRESS study. Follow-up at 11 years of extremely preterm infants in Sweden.

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  Progress in perinatal care has resulted in an increase in the survival of extremely preterm infants creating a new population with an increased risk for later disabilities. Our study population comprise ...

• Early life exposures: the microbiome and type 1 diabetes

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  The incidence of type 1 diabetes has doubled in the last 30 years in Sweden, most likely because of a concomitant increase in one or several as yet unidentified environmental causes. The “hygiene hypothesis ...

• Ending chilhood obesity

  Research project from 2016-06-01 to 2016-06-30

  Uppsala Health Summit is an international high-level summit on how science and innovation can meet global health challenges. Obesity and connected disease like type 2 diabetes pose a major threat to global ...

• Moving evidence based public health beyond randomized trials: Data Mining strategies to explore contextual influences and predict child mortality outcomes of interventions at scale

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  A third of the global disease burden involves children and falls almost entirely in low- and middle-income settings. Efficacious interventions for child survival are established, but difficulties arise ...

• Y-chromosome gene function in the central nervous system during early human development

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  The functions of Y-chromosome encoded genes are not only of interest for fertility research, but they are also relevant for studies of sex differences in brain and behaviour during early human development ...

• Neuroimaging placebo-analgesia from childhood to adulthood in migraineurs and healthy participants

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  Whereas in clinical trials placebos are used as controls and high placebo effects adversely impact the evaluation of new treatments, in clinical practice high placebo responsivity provide welcoming therapeutic ...

• How does inequity of evidence-based drug therapy affect mortality in heart failure in Sweden?

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  The Swedish health and medical services act states that the goal for health care and medical services is a good and equal health care for all the population. However, health is worse, with low socioeconomic ...

• Importance of maternal nutrition for fetal and infant growth. The mediating role of the IGF-system in a malnourished population.

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2017-11-01

  Poor fetal growth is associated with adverse health consequences for the individual, both short- and long-term. While the mothers nutritional status both before and during pregnancy is associated with ...

• The different aspects of health: relations between mortality, morbidity, functional status and subjective health in European populations

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  Health is a complex notion, and its definition is disputed upon. Several measures are used for reflecting ?health?: mortality, morbidity, functional status, and subjective health among them. In the absence ...

• Identifying targets and compounds for the therapeutic intervention of coronary heart disease using a zebrafish model system

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  The aim of my research programme is to identify novel drug targets and compounds for the therapeutic intervention of coronary heart disease (CHD). To this end, I have identified 93 positional candidate ...

• Indoor and outdoor environment in schools, homes, day care centres and offices in Malaysia: Epidemiological studies of health associations

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  The main aim is mutual exchange of knowledge and research methodology in environmental medicine, in particular on associations between health and indoor exposures. Schools is an important environment for ...

• Scaling-up interventions for quality of care improvements in the field of maternal and child health care in Nepal

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  This project will be carried out in Nepal in collaboration with Nepalese partners. The objective is to develop capacity and collaboration on health care system research in and between Nepal and Sweden. ...

• Within- and trans-generational health consequences of shift work in humans

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  My research is mainly focused on understanding how sleep disruptions and night work, i.e. working during a time where the internal clock is set to be off, affect metabolic and psychological health parameters ...

• Is betal quid chewing in pregnancy a risk factor of metabolic syndrome and contributing to adverse pregnancy and infant outcomes. A cohort study in rural Bangladesh.

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  Betel chewing is prevalent in Asia including among women in pregnancy. Betel is known as carcinogenic but little is known about health risks for mother and fetus. Studies suggest that health risks are ...

• Prenatal nutrition and health of children and grandchildren. Can improved pregnancy nutrition reduce the trans-generational effects of the 1974 Bangladesh famine? Follow-up of the MINIMat trial.

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  Low- and middle-income countries carry the double burden of malnutrition: undernutrition of mothers and children and adult overweight with chronic disease risks. Undernutrition during foetal life may alter ...

• LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF POPULATION-BASED PARENTING INTERVENTIONS - OUTCOMES, COSTS AND BENEFITS

  Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  The preschool years are a sensitive period in a child´s development and several early intervention strategies are available. However, there is a paucity of research on the long-term effects of structured ...

• Language impairment or typical language development? Developing methods for linguistic assessment of bilingual children in Sweden

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  Many children in Sweden grow up in a multilingual setting. Some of these children are slow in their language development and are referred to a speech-language pathologist (SLP) for assessment and intervention ...

• Lessons to be learned from Mother2Mother project i South Africa

  Research project from 2016-09-01 to 2017-08-31

  Innovative approaches to improving women’s health are needed the world over. NGOs are frequently at the forefront infinding new ways, as in the Mother 2 Mother project.Employing a mentoring method to HIV-mothers ...

• Personalized HYpertenSIon Care (PHYSIC)

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  Poor adherence to treatment is the main cause of failure to control hypertension, the leading risk factor for premature deaths worldwide. Improving adherence is imperative. That is the aim of this research ...

• Radionuclide molecular imaging of prostate cancer: staging and in vivo phenotyping of tumours for personalised medicine

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  There is an unmet clinical need to improve both diagnostics (especially detection of soft-tissue metastases) and therapy of prostate cancer (PCa). One possible approach is radionuclide targeting of receptors ...

• Scientific network - linking together the fields of migration and global reproductive health

  Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  Several Nordic researchers have had a long tradition of research in the area of global reproductive health, producing several PhD thesis and scientific papers based on material from developing countries ...

• Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm, a population-based longitudinal cohort study of elderly men in the county of Uppsala

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) causing an estimated 1.000 deaths annually in Sweden. To reduce the mortality screening risk groups has been proposed. The first population-based AAA screening ...

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