I care greatly about helping individuals make a positive change in their life to better their own and others physical and mental health. In particular, my focus is on the development and evaluation of novel interventions, including research on the methodological advancements and limitations of both.
Some of the research projects which I work on have grown into research programs and are presented below. Please see Publications for published work.
I am the founder and leader of MHED-Lab at Linköping University. MHED-lab conducts interventional, observational, methodological, and health economical research focused mainly on health behaviour and behaviour change interventions. The aim of the research done within the lab is twofold: first, to help individuals make a positive change in their life to better their own and others physical and mental health, second, to study, develop, and promote research methods and modeling techniques to improve scientific rigour in health and medical sciences.
Within the lab, we:
Series of studies of the long-term outcomes of digital behavioral interventions. Use of agent-based models to simulate the incidence of non-communicable diseases and mental health conditions conditional on the availability of interventions.
Six projects focusing on the use of mobile phones in alcohol interventions. Including four trials, one feasability study and a meta-analysis.
Seven projects, including seven trials and qualitative studies, of mobile phone multiple lifestyle behaviour interventions among different populations across the lifespan. Including meta-analysis, registry studies, and dissemination projects.
Five projects, including trials and qualitative studies, of text messaging smoking cessation interventions among five different populations: college and high school students, patients with elective surgery, primary health care visitors, and online help-seekers.
Four projects focusing on college students' mental health, including a trial of a text message intervention, WHO-WMH-ICS surveys, Covid-19 specific surveys, and a meta-analysis.
Two trials of brief alcohol interventions emailed to college students in Sweden. Both effectivness and efficacy trials, including a unique study of research participation effects.
Behaviour change interventions which are the produce of scientific research, and which have been proven to be effective, should be disseminated to those who may benefit from them. I therefore always ensure that effective interventions that stem from my own research are available for free to the general public.
Electronic screening and brief intervention for reduced alcohol consumption proven effective among university students. Since 2010, student healthcare units across Sweden have been sending email invitations to students to screen themselves and be given advice for change. The first decade saw over 1 million emails sent with over 200 000 students responding.
Freely available 12-week smoking cessation intervention delivered via mobile messages. Effectiveness established among online help-seekers, and university and high school students.
Freely available digital alcohol intervention. Effectiveness established among online help-seekers.
I have taught extensively at both medical and technical faculites since 2009, and have been examiner and/or supervisor for over 50 bachelor and master theses (see full Teaching history). I am currently examiner, course leader, and/or lecturer for the five courses presented below.
This is a course designed to help you ask the right questions. Sometimes these questions may be directed to an epidemiologist, sometimes to a data analyst, and sometimes to yourself.
Good research stems from knowing that you will have to make bad choices. But knowing which ones are least bad, and which ones get you closer to your goal, is key in moving your research field forward. You should appreciate the complexities, understand what can be done to alleviate difficulties, and always report your findings in light of your decisions.
The course provides an introduction to the scientific process and scientific methods for students at the medical program at Linköping university. I am responsible for the parts of the course that concern epidemiology and systematic reviews.
In 2023, I was awarded the Andreas Rousseau prize for best lecture of the year at the medical program at Linköping University. The award was given for my lecture on systematic reviews.
This course is an introduction to eHealth which aims to make the concept of eHealth more transparent with an anchoring in its interdisciplinary nature. The course is taken by both students from both the medical and technical faculty, and they interact in learning about the interprofessional nature of the core topics.
This course has three themes which focus on how digital applications for promoting health and preventing disease are developed, implemented and evaluated.
Behaviour change theories and behaviour change techniques are discussed in conjunction with user participatory design of digital applications. Factors which affect implementation of innovations within an organisation, and how innovations can be evaluated with respect to both effectivness and dissemination, are discussed from both theoretical and methodological points of view.
This is a semester long course including two projects (one of which results in a bachelor thesis). The course includes a range of topics, including: security terminology and security principles, analyzing situations from an information security standpoint, consideration of risks and threats, safe identification and authentication, and basic cryptography.
The course also includes group work and learning how to plan and execute projects.
Senior Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Public Health
Docent in Medical Informatics
Department of Health Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University
Department of Health Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University
Department of Health Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University
Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University
Santa Anna Research Institute
Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University
Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University
Södertörn University
Linköping University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Linköping, Sweden
Linköping University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Linköping, Sweden
Linköping University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Linköping, Sweden